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Spirit Studies Rock Outcrop at ‘Home Plate’
Spirit Studies Rock Outcrop at ‘Home Plate’

Mars Exploration Rover Spirit acquired this false-color image on the rover’s on Martian day, or sol, 746 (Feb. 26, 2006)…

Spitzer’s Legacy
Spitzer’s Legacy

NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has captured infrared images of the “Whirlpool Galaxy” (M51), revealing strange structures bridging the gaps between…

Opportunity’s First Dip Into Victoria Crater
Opportunity’s First Dip Into Victoria Crater

NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity entered Victoria Crater on the rover’s 1,291st Martian day, or sol, (Sept. 11, 2007). The…

Crew Wraps Up Launch Practice
Crew Wraps Up Launch Practice

The launch team at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and the crew of STS-122 concluded a successful dress rehearsal for the…

Boomerang Nebula
Boomerang Nebula

The Hubble Space Telescope has “caught” the Boomerang Nebula in these new images taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys.…

Boosters at Sea
Boosters at Sea

Floating in the Atlantic Ocean about 150 miles northeast of Cape Canaveral are the right and left solid rocket boosters,…

Mapping the World
Mapping the World

Malaspina Glacier in southeastern Alaska is considered the classic example of a piedmont glacier. Piedmont glaciers occur where valley glaciers…

Sun Storm!
Sun Storm!

The sun-orbiting SOHO spacecraft has imaged many erupting filaments lifting off the active solar surface and blasting enormous bubbles of…

Candy Stripes
Candy Stripes

This enhanced false color view is a departure from the familiar bluish north and golden south seen in natural color…

Los Angeles: Wrapped Color as Height
Los Angeles: Wrapped Color as Height

Looking more like the map of another planet than a view of this world, this topographic radar image of Los…