The Most Stunning Photos of Mars the World Has Ever Seen
NASA has released a new panorama from its Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, showing the terrain where the robot spent the four-month Martian winter.
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A Self-portrait
Photograph by NASA International Space Station astronaut, Aki Hoshide (Japan), recorded this striking image while helping to augment the capabilities of the Earth-orbiting International Space Station (ISS). Visible in this outworldly assemblage is the...
Comet Lemmon near the South Celestial Pole
Image Credit & Copyright: Peter Ward (Barden Ridge Observatory)Explanation: Currently sweeping through southern skies, Comet Lemmon (C/2012 F6) was named for its discovery last year as part of the Mount Lemmon (Arizona) Survey. Brighter than expected but still just below naked-eye...
The ISS experiments with long exposure photography (12 pictures)
On April 27th 2012 the six man crew of Expedition 31 began their 62 day trip aboard the International Space Station (ISS). While in space the crew experimented with long exposure photography and the results are mesmerizing.
Permanent Light on Earth’s Surface
Photograph by Craig Mayhew and Robert Simmon, NASA GSFC This image of Earth’s city lights was created with data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Operational Linescan System (OLS). Originally designed to view...