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Ion Engine Inspection
Ion Engine Inspection

An engineer and a technician check out an ion engine in the Electronic Propulsion Research Building at the Lewis Research…

Opportunity Takes a Last Look Before Heading to Victoria
Opportunity Takes a Last Look Before Heading to Victoria

NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity recently stopped to analyze an exposure of rock near “Beagle Crater,” on a target nicknamed…

Cocoon of a New White Dwarf
Cocoon of a New White Dwarf

Like a butterfly, a white dwarf star begins its life by casting off the cocoon that enclosed it. In the…

SuitSat-1 Floats Free
SuitSat-1 Floats Free

A space suit floats freely away from the International Space Station in a scene reminiscent of a sci-fi movie. But…

Saturn’s Blues
Saturn’s Blues

Mimas drifts along in its orbit against the azure backdrop of Saturn’s northern latitudes in this true color view from…

Spirit’s First Color Photos of Mars
Spirit’s First Color Photos of Mars

his is the first color image of Mars taken by the panoramic camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit. It…

Seasons on Mars
Seasons on Mars

This composite image shows the Acidalia/Mare Erythraeum face of Mars, picturing the last days of the Mars’ northern autumn/southern spring.…

Calm Waters
Calm Waters

The latest remote sensing data from NASA’s Jason satellite show near normal conditions across the equatorial Pacific Ocean. As we…

Wrapping Up
Wrapping Up

Astronaut Dave Williams, representing the Canadian Space Agency, participates in the last of four STS-118 spacewalks.

The First Geosynchronous Satellite
The First Geosynchronous Satellite

NASA began development of new communication satellites in 1960, based on the hypothesis that geosynchronous satellites, which orbit Earth 22,300…