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January 22, 2020

Spitzer Space Telescope Ready for Launch

January 22, 2020

Spitzer Space Telescope Ready for Launch

The Spitzer Space Telescope (formerly the Space Infrared Telescope Facility or SIRTF) is readied for launch at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, in 2003.
January 22, 2020

Spitzer Space Telescope (Illustration)

January 22, 2020

Spitzer Space Telescope (Illustration)

In this artists rendering of NASAs Spitzer Space Telescope in space, the background is shown in infrared light.
January 15, 2020

ARIA Maps Damage of Western Puerto Rico After Quakes

January 15, 2020

ARIA Maps Damage of Western Puerto Rico After Quakes

NASAs ARIA team mapped damage in southwestern Puerto Rico following a 6.4-magnitude quake and hundreds of aftershocks. Guanica, west of the city of Ponce, was particularly hard-hit.
January 9, 2020

Ganymede

January 9, 2020

Ganymede

This sequence of four images from NASAs Juno spacecraft reveals the first views of the north polar region of Jupiters moon Ganymede.
January 9, 2020

Sacra Mensa

January 9, 2020

Sacra Mensa

This image from NASAs Mars Odyssey shows part of Sacra Mensa, a large mesa located between the north and south channels of Kasei Valles.
January 8, 2020

Gravitational Lensing Graphic

January 8, 2020

Gravitational Lensing Graphic

This graphic illustrates how a faraway quasar (an extremely bright region in the center of some distant galaxies) is altered by a massive foreground galaxy.
January 8, 2020

Quasars' Multiple Images Shed Light on Tiny Dark Matter Clumps

January 8, 2020

Quasars' Multiple Images Shed Light on Tiny Dark Matter Clumps

Each snapshot shows four distorted images of a background quasar, surrounding the core of a massive foreground galaxy. The gravity of the foreground galaxy magnifies the quasar, an effect called gravitational lensing.
January 8, 2020

Cuatro Cienegas Basin, Mexico

January 8, 2020

Cuatro Cienegas Basin, Mexico

NASAs Terra spacecraft shows the Cuatro Cienegas Basin, in the northern Mexican state of Cohuilla.
January 8, 2020

Mamers Valles

January 8, 2020

Mamers Valles

This image from NASAs Mars Odyssey shows a section of Mamers Valles. The channel is nearly 1000 km long (600 miles).
January 7, 2020

SOFIA Reveals How the Swan Nebula Hatched

January 7, 2020

SOFIA Reveals How the Swan Nebula Hatched

In this composite image of the Omega, or Swan, Nebula, SOFIAs view reveals evidence that parts of the nebula formed separately to create the swan-like shape seen today.
January 7, 2020

Nili Fossae

January 7, 2020

Nili Fossae

This image from NASAs Mars Odyssey shows a section of a graben that is part of Nili Fossae.
January 6, 2020

TOI 700 Artists' Illustration

January 6, 2020

TOI 700 Artists' Illustration

This illustration shows TOI 700, a planetary system 100 light-years away in the constellation Dorado.
January 6, 2020

TOI 700 Habitable Zone Diagram

January 6, 2020

TOI 700 Habitable Zone Diagram

This illustration of TOI 700 d is based on several simulated environments for an ocean-covered version of the planet.
January 6, 2020

Tinto Vallis

January 6, 2020

Tinto Vallis

This image from NASAs Mars Odyssey shows a sinuous channel, Tinto Vallis.
January 3, 2020

ASTERIA CubeSat Before Launch

January 3, 2020

ASTERIA CubeSat Before Launch

This image shows Electrical Test Engineer Esha Murty and Integration and Test Lead Cody Colley preparing the ASTERIA spacecraft for mass-properties measurements in April 2017.
January 3, 2020

Kaiser Crater Dunes - False Color

January 3, 2020

Kaiser Crater Dunes - False Color

This image from NASAs Mars Odyssey shows part of the floor of Kaiser Crater. Kaiser Crater is 207 km (129 miles) in diameter and is located in Noachis Terra west of Hellas Planitia.
January 2, 2020

Hale Crater Dunes - False Color

January 2, 2020

Hale Crater Dunes - False Color

This image from NASAs Mars Odyssey shows sand dunes on the floor of Hale Crater, located north of Argyre Planitia.
January 1, 2020

Sumgin Crater - False Color

January 1, 2020

Sumgin Crater - False Color

This image from NASAs Mars Odyssey shows sand dunes on the floor of Sumgin Crater. The crater is located in Noachis Terra north of Argyre Planitia.
December 31, 2019

Juventae Chasma - False Color

December 31, 2019

Juventae Chasma - False Color

This image from NASAs Mars Odyssey shows part of Juventae Chasma, located north of Valles Marineris.
December 30, 2019

Hale Crater - False Color

December 30, 2019

Hale Crater - False Color

This image from NASAs Mars Odyssey shows part of the floor of Hale Crater and the elongate axis of the central peak mountains.
December 27, 2019

Swiss Cheese - False Color

December 27, 2019

Swiss Cheese - False Color

This image from NASAs Mars Odyssey shows pits on the south polar cap. The terrain has the appearance of a slice of swiss cheese, giving rise to the informal name.
December 26, 2019

South Polar Ice - False Color

December 26, 2019

South Polar Ice - False Color

This image from NASAs Mars Odyssey shows part of the south polar cap. The cap was created over millions of years with deposition of ice and dust during different seasons.
December 25, 2019

Terra Cimmeria - False Color

December 25, 2019

Terra Cimmeria - False Color

This image from NASAs Mars Odyssey shows part of Terra Cimmeria.
December 24, 2019

Bombala Crater - False Color

December 24, 2019

Bombala Crater - False Color

This image from NASAs Mars Odyssey shows Bombala Crater. Located in Hesperia Planum, Bombala Crater is 38 km in diameter (23 miles).
December 23, 2019

Galileo in High Bay 1

December 23, 2019

Galileo in High Bay 1

This photo from Nov. 1, 1984 shows JPLs Spacecraft Assembly Facility during the time the Galileo orbiter was being built.
December 23, 2019

Ranger 7 in SAF's High Bay 1

December 23, 2019

Ranger 7 in SAF's High Bay 1

Engineers stand with Ranger 7 on Dec. 10, 1963, in High Bay 1, located at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
December 23, 2019

High Bay 1 in JPL's Spacecraft Assembly Facility

December 23, 2019

High Bay 1 in JPL's Spacecraft Assembly Facility

The High Bay 1 clean room within the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at JPL is seen in this image taken on Nov. 12, 2019. The Mars 2020 rover is visible just above center.
December 23, 2019

Mariner 1 in JPL's Spacecraft Assembly Facility

December 23, 2019

Mariner 1 in JPL's Spacecraft Assembly Facility

This image shows two engineers standing with Mariner 1 on May 2, 1962, at JPLs Spacecraft Assembly Facility.
December 23, 2019

Spirit and Opportunity in High Bay 1

December 23, 2019

Spirit and Opportunity in High Bay 1

High Bay 1 looks much as it does today in this photo of NASAs Spirit and Opportunity Mars rovers being tested on Feb. 10, 2003.
December 23, 2019

Harris Crater - False Color

December 23, 2019

Harris Crater - False Color

This image from NASAs Mars Odyssey shows part of Harris crater and an unnamed crater.
December 20, 2019

Arabia Terra Crater - False Color

December 20, 2019

Arabia Terra Crater - False Color

This image from NASAs Mars Odyssey shows most of the floor of an unnamed crater in southern Arabia Terra.
December 19, 2019

Perseus Molecular Cloud

December 19, 2019

Perseus Molecular Cloud

NASAs Spitzer Space telescope shows a collection of gas and dust over 500 light-years across, the Perseus Molecular Cloud, hosts an abundance of young stars.

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