My Favorite Images from the Planetary Photojoural
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Catalog # Target Mission Instrument Addition Date Size
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17112 Earth Terra
ASTER
2013-06-25 1158x2904x3
This image from NASA's Terra spacecraft shows North Stradbroke Island, 30 km southeast of Brisbane, Australia, one of the largest sand islands in the world.
Title:
North Stradbroke Island, Australia
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17133 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
2013-10-21 1015x1016x1
Although their gravitational effects on nearby ring material look quite different, Prometheus and Pan are both shepherd moons, holding back nearby ring edges in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
Title:
Two Shepherds
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17134 Titan Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
2013-10-28 1003x1003x1
NASA's Cassini spacecraft uses special infrared glasses to peer through Titan's haze and monitor its surface inequatorial region dubbed 'Senkyo.' The dark features are believed to be vast dunes of hydrocarbon particles.
Title:
Senkyo Through the Clouds
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17140 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
2013-12-09 1005x1005x1
Prometheus, seen here by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, sculpting the F ring while Daphnis (too small to discern in this image) raises waves on the edges of the Encke gap.
Title:
Artists at Work
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17153 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
2014-01-27 1016x1016x1
Similar to many of the small, inner moons of Saturn, Prometheus points its long axis at Saturn as if giving us directions to the planet. This image was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
Title:
Pointing Toward Saturn
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17158 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
2014-03-31 1020x1020x1
Saturn's moon Prometheus orbits near some of its handiwork in the F ring in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Prometheus and its partner Pandora gravitationally sculpt and maintain the narrow F ring.
Title:
Prometheus' Handiwork
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17207 Prometheus Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
2015-12-08 1020x1020x1
NASA's Cassini spacecraft spied details on the pockmarked surface of Saturn's moon Prometheus (86 kilometers, or 53 miles across) during a moderately close flyby on Dec. 6, 2015. This is one of Cassini's highest resolution views of Prometheus.
Title:
Prometheus Up Close
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17234 Earth Earth Observing-1 (EO-1)
Hyperion Hyperspectral Imager
2013-06-07 1200x1166x3
NASA's Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) spacecraft observed Copahue volcano, a 2965 meter high volcano on the Chile-Argentina border, on Jun. 4, 2013. Having recently displayed signs of unrest, the volcano is under close scrutiny by local volcanologists.
Title:
NASA's Earth Observing-1 Keeps Watchful Eye on South American Volcano Copahue
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17248 Earth CSIRO Parkes Observatory
Parks Telescope
2013-07-08 3220x2225x3
This image shows the Parkes telescope in Australia, part of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization. Researchers used the telescope to detect the first population of radio bursts known to originate from beyond our galaxy.
Title:
Parkes Telescope
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17263 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
MCS
2013-06-12 1883x2437x3
This graphic depicts the Mars Climate Sounder instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter measuring the temperature of a cross section of the Martian atmosphere as the orbiter passes above the south polar region.
Title:
Scanning Martian Atmospheric Temperatures (Graphic)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17265 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Panoramic Camera
2013-06-21 5274x1001x1
NASA's Opportunity used its Pancam to record this view of the rise in the foreground, called 'Nobbys Head.' This view is centered toward the south-southeast, with Opportunity's next destination, 'Solander Point,' toward the right edge of the view.
Title:
'Nobbys Head' on Opportunity's Southward Route
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17271 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Hazcam
2013-07-02 1024x774x1
This view shows the terrain that NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is crossing in a flat area called 'Botany Bay' on the way toward 'Solander Point,' which is visible on the horizon.
Title:
Opportunity's View in 'Botany Bay' Toward 'Solander Point'
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17278 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
HiRISE
2013-07-17 1616x839x3
This image taken by the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, captures Opportunity traversing south (at the end of the white arrow) to new science targets and a winter haven at 'Solander Point,' another portion of the Endeavour rim.
Title:
Color View From Orbit Showing Opportunity in 'Botany Bay'
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17279 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
Hazcam (MSL)
2013-07-17 4267x4267x1
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this image on with its Hazcam just after completing a drive that took the mission's total driving distance past the 1 kilometer (0.62 mile) mark.
Title:
One Down, Many Kilometers to Go
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17284 Earth Aqua
Terra
MODIS
MODIS
2013-06-13 1659x1452x3
Rates of basal melt of Antarctic ice shelves (melting of the shelves from underneath) overlaid on a 2009 mosaic of Antarctica created from data from NASA's Terra and Aqua spacecraft.
Title:
Rates of Basal Melt of Antarctic Ice Shelves
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17305 Mars Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
2013-08-27 1024x576x3
Mars is kept company by two cratered moons -- an inner moon named Phobos and an outer moon named Deimos.
Title:
The Moons of Mars
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17312 Earth Terra
ASTER
2013-07-09 1578x1716x3
This image from NASA's Terra spacecraft shows the town of Kirkenes in northernmost Norway, with its 3400 inhabitants, as they prepare for an expected boom as a shipping hub, as global warming has led to the opening up of the Northern Sea Route.
Title:
Kirkenes, Norway
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17355 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
HiRISE
2013-08-27 3300x2550x3
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity left the 'Glenelg' area on July 4, 2013, on a 'rapid transit route' to the entry point for the mission's next major destination, the lower layers of Mount Sharp.
Title:
Curiosity's Progress on Route from 'Glenelg' to Mount Sharp
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17364 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Panoramic Camera
2014-01-23 2940x3000x3
Researchers used NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity to find a water-related mineral on the ground that had been detected from orbit, and found it in the dark veneer of rocks on the rim of Endeavour Crater.
Title:
Mineral Detected from Orbit Found in Dark Veneers
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17366 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Navigation Camera
2013-10-23 4243x1135x1
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity captured this southward uphill view after beginning to ascend the northwestern slope of 'Solander Point' on the western rim of Endeavour Crater.
Title:
Mars Hill-Climbing Opportunity at 'Solander Point'
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17383 Earth Terra
MISR
2013-07-20 904x755x3
NASA's Terra spacecraft passed over the Mountain Fire near Idyllwild, Calif., on Jul. 17, 2013. Los Angeles and the Pacific Ocean can been seen to the left and the Salton Sea is the dark feature in the right center of the image.
Title:
NASA's MISR Instrument Captures View of Mountain Fire Near Idyllwild, Calif.
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17411 Earth Terra
ASTER
2013-08-16 2523x2922x3
Radially symmetrical, star dunes dominate the Grand Erg Oriental of the Algerian Sahara, as depicted in this image acquired October 27, 2012 acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft.
Title:
Star Dunes, Algeria
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17413 Earth CloudSat
Cloud Profiling Radar (CPR)
MODIS
2013-08-22 1199x206x3
NASA's CloudSat satellite flew over Typhoon Utor in the West Pacific on Aug. 11, 2013 at 0518 UTC, passing within about 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) from the center of the storm, and revealing the structure of the storm's eye and eyewall.
Title:
NASA's CloudSat Eyes Powerful Typhoon Utor
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17427 Earth Aqua
AIRS
2013-08-27 879x600x3
The plume of carbon monoxide pollution from the Rim Fire burning in and near Yosemite National Park, Calif., shows a three-day running average of daily measurements from NASA's Aqua spacecraft.
Title:
NASA's Aqua Spacecraft Images Pollution from California's Rim Fire
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17428 Earth Terra
MISR
2013-08-27 704x968x3
This image from the MISR instrument onboard NASA's Terra spacecraft shows a 121-by-165-mile (194-by-266 kilometer) portion of California's Rim fire where the smoke is the thickest.
Title:
NASA's Terra Spacecraft Measures Height of California Rim Fire Smoke Plumes
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17429 Earth Terra
MISR
2013-08-27 1551x1258x3
This visible image of California's Rim Fire was acquired Aug. 23, 2013 by the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft, showing extensive, brownish smoke.
Title:
NASA's Terra Spacecraft Eyes Smoke Plumes from Massive Rim Fire Near Yosemite
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17444 Spitzer Space Telescope
2013-09-24 4533x2550x3
This artist's concept shows NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope surrounded by examples of exoplanets the telescope has examined in over its ten years in space.
Title:
Spitzer Trains Its Eyes on Exoplanets (Artist Concept)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17446 Spitzer Space Telescope
Spitzer Space Telescope
2013-10-17 1024x683x3
The center of the Milky Way galaxy imaged by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is displayed on a quarter-of-a-billion-pixel, high-definition 23-foot-wide (7-meter) LCD science visualization screen at NASA's Ames Research Center.
Title:
Big Data on the Big Screen
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17449 Planck
Planck Telescope
2013-10-23 5645x3500x3
The oldest light in the universe, called the cosmic microwave background, as observed by the Planck space telescope is shown in the oval sky map. An artist's concept of Planck is next to the map.
Title:
Planck and the Cosmic Microwave Background (Artist Concept)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17454 Earth OSTM/Jason-2
Altimeter
2013-09-09 1100x960x3
New data from NASA's Jason-2 satellite show near-normal sea surface heights in the equatorial Pacific Ocean persisting for a 16th straight month.
Title:
'La Nada' Climate Pattern Lingers in the Pacific
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17466 Vesta Dawn
Hubble Space Telescope
Framing Camera
Hubble Space Telescope
2013-09-27 683x807x3
These two images compare topographic maps of the giant asteroid Vesta as discerned by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (top) and as seen by NASA's Dawn spacecraft (bottom). Hubble has been in an orbit around Earth, while Dawn orbited Vesta from 2011 to 2012.
Title:
Comparing Vesta's Topography
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17478 Vesta Dawn
Framing Camera
2013-11-06 1648x728x1
This image from NASA's Dawn mission shows a crater in the northern hemisphere of the giant asteroid Vesta called Bellicia.
Title:
Bellicia Crater, in Visible Light
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17483 ISON Hubble Space Telescope
2013-07-02 1008x935x3
Superficially resembling a skyrocket, Comet ISON is hurtling toward the Sun at a whopping 48,000 miles per hour in this still from a Hubble animation.
Title:
Comet ISON Brings Holiday Fireworks Animation Icon
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17504 Earth Terra
ASTER
2013-09-24 2003x3287x3
This image, acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft, shows the Cordoba province of northern Argentina, struck by wildfires caused by high temperatures and strong winds.
Title:
NASA Spacecraft Images Destructive Argentine Wildfire
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17513 Earth Terra
ASTER
2013-09-26 1460x1470x3
This image, acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft, shows Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, with a population of about 2.5 million inhabitants for the greater metropolitan area.
Title:
Kathmandu, Nepal
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17539 Earth Terra
ASTER
2013-10-17 1866x1632x3
This image, acquired by NASA's Terra spacecraft, is of Canyonlands National Park, Utah, a showcase of geology in the southwest desert of the United States.
Title:
Canyonlands National Park, Utah
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17577 Earth Terra
MISR
2013-10-24 1013x795x3
NASA's Terra spacecraft passed over the Blue Mountains to the west and north of Sydney, A mild winter and an extremely hot September in Australia have led to an early start to the fire season.
Title:
MISR Stereo Imagery of Blue Mountain Fires in New South Wales, Australia
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17583 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Panoramic Camera
2013-11-13 9908x3546x3
This scene shows the 'Murray Ridge' portion of the western rim of Endeavour Crater on Mars, as seen by NASA's Opportunity rover. It is presented in false color to make some differences between materials easier to see.
Title:
'Murray Ridge' on Rim of Endeavour Crater on Mars, False Color
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17585 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Navigation Camera
2013-11-13 4253x1820x1
This image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover, Opportunity, shows the lower reaches of 'Murray Ridge,' informally named to honor the late Bruce Murray, who led NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory through a period of great challenge and achievement.
Title:
Opportunity's View Climbing 'Murray Ridge'
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17586 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
HiRISE
2013-11-13 8192x4298x3
This view of Murray Ridge was generated from data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Rover and a digital topographic map generated from stereo HiRISE coverage.
Title:
A New Perspective on Murray Ridge
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17588 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Navigation Camera
2013-11-13 3985x1776x3
This stereo view shows the 'Murray Ridge' portion of the western rim of Endeavour Crater on Mars. You need 3D glasses to view this image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.
Title:
'Murray Ridge' in Stereo from Mars Rover Opportunity
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17589 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
CTX
2013-12-03 4731x3605x3
The gold line on this image shows NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's route as it investigating on the western rim of Endeavour Crater.
Title:
Opportunity's Journey, Approaching 10th Anniversary
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17590 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Navigation Camera
2013-12-03 1024x1024x1
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity captured this image as the rover ascended 'Murray Ridge' above 'Solander Point' on the western rim of Endeavour Crater.
Title:
Tracks of a Climb on Opportunity's Sol 3485
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17596 Mars Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
CTX
2013-12-09 3300x2550x3
This illustration depicts a concept for the possible extent of an ancient lake inside Gale Crater. The base map combines image data from the Context Camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and color information from Viking Orbiter imagery.
Title:
Possible Extent of Ancient Lake in Gale Crater, Mars
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17661 Vesta Dawn
Framing Camera
2013-12-16 1437x863x3
This colorful composite image from NASA's Dawn mission shows the flow of material inside and outside a crater called Aelia on the giant asteroid Vesta. To the naked eye, these structures would not be seen. But here, they stand out in blue and red.
Title:
Flowing in, Flowing out of Aelia
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17665 Rosetta
2014-01-24 718x476x3
NASA has provided part of the electronics package for an instrument called the Double Focusing Mass Spectrometer, which is part of the Swiss-built Rosetta Orbiter Spectrometer for Ion and Neutral Analysis (ROSINA) instrument.
Title:
Electronics for a Spectrometer
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17676 Mercury MESSENGER
MDIS - Narrow Angle
2013-11-08 1020x1024x1
Ride Along with MESSENGER: Movie 2
Title:
Ride Along with MESSENGER: Movie 2 Animation Icon
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17680 Earth Aqua
OSCAT
AIRS
OSCAT
2013-11-08 1200x600x3
Satellite images obtained from NASA's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument aboard NASA's Aqua spacecraft provide a glimpse into one of the most powerful storms ever recorded on Earth, Typhoon Haiyan.
Title:
Super Typhoon Haiyan
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17756 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Panoramic Camera
2014-01-23 1035x651x3
Rock targets known as 'Esperance6,' and 'Lihir,' are shown in this false-color view from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. Esperance6 was deeply abraded with the rover's rock abrasion tool.
Title:
'Esperance6' and 'Lihir' Rover Targets
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17758 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
CTX
2014-01-23 4853x3687x3
The gold line on this image shows NASA's Opportunity's route from the landing site, in upper left, to the area it is investigating on the western rim of Endeavour Crater as of the rover's 10th anniversary on Mars, in Earth years.
Title:
Opportunity's First Decade of Driving on Mars
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17759 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Panoramic Camera
2014-01-23 3408x2772x3
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity recorded the component images for this self-portrait about three weeks before completing a decade of work on Mars.
Title:
Self-Portrait by Opportunity Mars Rover in January 2014
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17761 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Panoramic Camera
2014-01-21 1171x720x3
This before-and-after pair of images of the same patch of ground in front of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity 13 days apart documents the arrival of a bright rock onto the scene.
Title:
Rock That Appeared in Front of Opportunity on "Murray Ridge"
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17771 Earth Airborne Snow Observatory
2013-05-02 4000x3000x3
Mt. Dana and Dana Plateau in the Tuolumne River Basin within Yosemite National Park, Calif., as seen out the window of a Twin Otter aircraft carrying NASA's Airborne Snow Observatory on April 3, 2013.
Title:
Tuolumne River Basin seen by NASA's Airborne Snow Observatory
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17772 Earth Airborne Snow Observatory
2013-05-02 910x1178x3
A natural color image of Mt. Lyell, the highest point in the Tuolumne River Basin (top image) is compared with a three-dimensional color composite image of Mt. Lyell from NASA's Airborne Snow Observatory depicting snow depth (bottom image).
Title:
Snow Depth Depicted on Mt. Lyell by NASA's Airborne Snow Observatory
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17796 Comet Rosetta
OSIRIS
2014-03-27 2048x1966x3
This image of comet 67P/Churymov-Gerasimenko was taken on March 20, 2014, by the wide-angle camera of the Rosetta spacecraft's Optical, Spectroscopic and Infrared Remote Imaging System (OSIRIS).
Title:
Rosetta Images its Target
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17800 OCO-2
OCO-2
2008-12-09 8192x8192x3
Artist's rendering of NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO)-2, one of five new NASA Earth science missions set to launch in 2014, and one of three managed by JPL.
Title:
OCO-2 in Space
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17896 Earth OCO-2
OCO-2
2014-01-22 2560x1440x3
Artist's rendering of NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO)-2, one of five new NASA Earth science missions set to launch in 2014, and one of three managed by JPL.
Title:
NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) (Artist Concept)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17898 SMAP
2014-01-22 8196x8196x3
NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission will produce high-resolution global maps of soil moisture to track water availability around our planet and guide policy decisions.
Title:
NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) (Artist Concept)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17941 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
HiRISE
2014-02-19 1416x1441x3
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter caught this view of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on Feb. 14, 2014. The red arrow points to Opportunity at the center of the image. Blue arrows point to tracks left by the rover in October 2013.
Title:
Opportunity Rover on 'Murray Ridge' Seen From Orbit
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17942 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Panoramic Camera
2014-02-14 1020x1020x3
This image from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the location of 'Pinnacle Island' rock before it appeared in front of the rover in early January 2014.
Title:
Where Martian 'Jelly Doughnut' Rock Came From
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17943 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Panoramic Camera
2014-02-14 4383x934x3
This view toward the south is a mosaic of images taken by Opportunity's Pancam on Dec. 25, 2013. The rover team plans to use Opportunity during 2014 to investigate rock layers exposed on the slope upward toward the McClure-Beverlin Escarpment.
Title:
Opportunity's Southward View of 'McClure-Beverlin Escarpment' on Mars
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA17956 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Hazcam
2014-03-27 1024x1024x1
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity caught its own silhouette in this late-afternoon image from the rover's rear HAZCAM on Mar, 20, 2014; its shadow falls across a slope called McClure-Beverlin Escarpment on the western rim of Endeavour Crater.
Title:
Shadow Portrait of NASA Rover Opportunity on Martian Slope
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18032 Comet NEOWISE
NEOWISE Telescope
2014-02-27 1148x1148x3
Comet NEOWISE was first observed by NASA's NEOWISE spacecraft on Valentine's Day, 2014. This heat-sensitive infrared image was made by combining six exposures taken by the NEOWISE mission of the newly discovered comet.
Title:
An Infrared portrait of Comet NEOWISE (C/2014 C3)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18042 OCO-2
OCO-2
2014-04-15 1993x3000x3
The Delta II second stage for NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 mission, or OCO-2, is lifted to the top of the mobile service tower at Space Launch Complex 2 on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Title:
Lifting of NASA's OCO-2's Delta II Launch Vehicle
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18043 OCO-2
OCO-2
2014-04-15 1993x3000x3
Workers monitor the Delta II second stage for NASA's OCO-2, as it is lifted into position for mating with the rocket's first stage in the mobile service tower at Space Launch Complex 2 on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Title:
Lifting NASA's OCO-2's Delta II Launch Vehicle Second Stage into Position for Mating
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18044 OCO-2
OCO-2
2014-04-15 1993x3000x3
The Delta II second stage for NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 mission, or OCO-2, is positioned atop the rocket's first stage in the mobile service tower at Space Launch Complex 2 on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Title:
Positioning NASA's OCO-2's Delta II Launch Vehicle Second Stage for Mating
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18045 OCO-2
OCO-2
2014-04-15 1993x3000x3
The Delta II second stage for NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 mission, or OCO-2, makes contact with the rocket's first stage in the mobile service tower at Space Launch Complex 2 on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
Title:
Mating NASA's OCO-2's Delta II Launch Vehicle First and Second Stages
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18047 Earth Aqua
AIRS
2014-04-29 900x695x3
NASA's Aqua spacecraft passed over central and southern United States on April 27-29, 2014 capturing this false-color infrared image of the slow-moving low-pressure system that spawned the strong supercell thunderstorms.
Title:
NASA Satellite Spots Severe Weather Outbreak in South
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18079 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Panoramic Camera
2014-04-17 7694x6016x3
A self-portrait of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity taken by the rover's panoramic camera (Pancam) in late March 2014 shows effects of recent winds removing much of the dust from the rover's solar arrays.
Title:
Self-Portrait by Freshly Cleaned Opportunity Mars Rover in March 2014
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18080 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Panoramic Camera
2014-04-17 7694x6016x3
A false-color self-portrait of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity taken by the rover's panoramic camera (Pancam) shows effects of recent winds removing much of the dust from the solar arrays.
Title:
Self-Portrait by Freshly Cleaned Opportunity Mars Rover, False Color
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18094 Mars Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Panoramic Camera
2014-05-19 5454x1264x3
This false-color vista of the Endeavour Crater rim was acquired by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's panoramic camera on April 18, 2014, from 'Murray Ridge' on the western rim of the crater.
Title:
Endeavour Crater Rim From 'Murray Ridge' on Mars, False Color
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18097 Earth Aqua
MODIS
2014-05-29 7091x5556x1
Amanda, the first named storm of the 2014 hurricane season in the Americas, is seen off the west coast of Mexico in an image acquired on May 25 by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite.
Title:
Hurricane Amanda
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18156 Aqua
2002-05-08 1280x720x3
NASA's Aqua satellite carries six state-of-the-art instruments in a near-polar low-Earth orbit. Aqua is seen in this artist's concept orbiting Earth.
Title:
Aqua Satellite Orbiting Earth (Artist's Concept)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18157 ACRIMSAT
1999-12-21 800x688x3
Artist's concept of NASA's Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor satellite, or ACRIMSAT, was launched in December 1999.
Title:
Active Cavity Irradiance Monitor Satellite (ACRIMSAT) Artist's Concept
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18159 Clementine
1994-01-25 1024x768x3
Artist's conception of the Clementine spacecraft, a joint mission of the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative Organization and NASA.
Title:
Clementine Fully Deployed (Artist's Concept)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18162 Lunar Prospector
1998-01-08 2000x1594x3
This artist's concept of the Lunar Prospector shows the spacecraft in lunar orbit. Instrument masts are fully deployed.
Title:
Lunar Prospector (Artist's Concept)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18169 SDO
2010-02-11 1280x720x3
The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft, shown above the Earth as it faces toward the Sun. SDO is designed to study the influence of the Sun on the Earth and the inner solar system by studying the solar atmosphere.
Title:
Solar Dynamics Observatory (Artist's Concept)
Remove Image from Favorite List PIA18172 Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO)
2011-06-01 1280x720x3
An artist's conception of one of NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft. The two observatories currently lie on either side of the sun, providing views of the entire sun simultaneously.
Title:
Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory Spacecraft (Artist's Concept)
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1990-08-10 818x615x3
An artist's concept of the Magellan spacecraft making a radar map of Venus. The spacecraft was commanded to plunge into Venus' atmosphere in 1994 as part of a final experiment to gather atmospheric data.
Title:
Magellan Orbit (Artist's Concept)