An SR-71B from NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center in California slices across sky above the snowy southern Sierra Nevada Mountains…
This view of Dione, Saturn’s icy moon, highlights its tectonic faults and craters. To create this enhanced-color view, ultraviolet, green…
With its thick, distended atmosphere, Titan’s orange globe shines softly, encircled by a thin halo of purple light-scattering haze. This…
The STS-117 crewmembers and Johnson Space Center’s (JSC) director Michael L. Coats (right) are photographed during the STS-117 crew return…
The photo, taken on January 1, 1963, shows the “energy flash” that occurs when a projectile launched at speeds up…
Encircled in purple stratospheric haze, Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, appears as a softly glowing sphere in this colorized image taken…
The bright sun dissects the airglow above Earth’s horizon in this view photographed with a digital still camera from the…
This false-color image of two density waves in Saturn’s A ring was made by the Cassini-Huygens Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph instrument.…
This view of a full moon was photographed by the Expedition 10 crew orbiting Earth aboard the International Space Station.…
Astronomers have long known that Saturn’s rings reflect sunlight most strongly when Earth is located directly between Saturn and the…
