This composite image of southern Africa and the surrounding oceans was captured by six orbits of the NASA/NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership spacecraft on April 9, 2015, by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument. Tropical Cyclone Joalane can be seen over the Indian Ocean.
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Searching for Water in the Solar System and Beyond
As NASA missions explore our solar system and search for new worlds, they are finding water in surprising places.
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Curiosity Sees Prominent Mineral Veins on Mount Sharp, Mars
This March 18, 2015 view from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows a network of two-tone mineral veins at an area called “Garden City” on lower Mount Sharp.
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Soyuz Spacecraft Rolled Out For Launch of One-Year Crew
The Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft is seen after is was rolled out by train to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, March 25, 2015.
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Vanguard Satellite, 1958
Vanguard 1, the world’s first solar-powered satellite, launched on St. Patrick’s Day (March 17) 1958.
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Launch of Magnetospheric Multiscale Spacecraft Aboard Atlas V Rocket
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft onboard launches from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 41, Thursday, March 12, 2015, Florida.
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Test Firing of Booster for NASA's New Rocket
The largest, most powerful rocket booster ever built successfully fired up Wednesday for a major-milestone ground test in preparation for future missions to help propel NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft to deep space destinations, including an asteroid and Mars.
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Ceres Seen From NASA's Dawn Spacecraft
This image of Ceres was taken by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft on March 1; on March 6, the mission achieved orbit around the previously unexplored world.
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The NACA Spirit Captured, 1945
In this 1945 photo, test pilots (from left) Mel Gough, Herb Hoover, Jack Reeder, Steve Cavallo and Bill Gray stand in front of a P-47 Thunderbolt. The photo was taken at the then-named Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, which was a research facility for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, or the NACA.
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Curiosity Self-Portrait at 'Mojave' Site on Mount Sharp
This self-portrait of NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at the “Mojave” site, where its drill collected the mission’s second taste of Mount Sharp. The scene combines dozens of images taken during January 2015 by the MAHLI camera at the end of the rover’s robotic arm.
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Giant Filament Seen on the Sun — Feb. 10, 2015
A dark, snaking line across the lower half of the sun in this images from Feb. 10, 2015, shows a filament of solar material hovering above the sun’s surface. This image was captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory.
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Space Station Flyover of Gulf of Aden and Horn of Africa
ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti photographed the Gulf of Aden and Horn of Africa from the International Space Station.
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Apollo 14 Touches Down on the Moon
On Feb. 5. 1971, the Apollo 14 crew landed on the moon. The crew members were Captain Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr. (USN), commander; Major Stuart Allen Roosa (USAF), command module pilot; and Commander Edgar Dean Mitchell (USN), lunar module pilot. In this photo, Shepard stands by the Modular Equipment Transporter (MET).