NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured this view of Saturn’s moon Enceladus that shows wrinkled plains that are remarkably youthful in appearance, being generally free of large impact craters.
Tag: NASA
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Hubble Sees a Legion of Galaxies
Containing countless galaxies, this parallel field observation is nearly as deep as the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field. When compared to other deep fields, it will help astronomers understand how similar the universe looks in different directions.
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Mission Manager Update: K2 continues to shine
Now in its eighth observing campaign, the Kepler spacecraft continues to operate beautifully as the K2 mission.
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Frontier Fields Galaxy Cluster MACS J0717
“Frontier Fields” galaxy cluster MACS J0717, one of the most complex and distorted galaxy clusters known, is the site of a collision between four clusters. It is located about 5.4 billion light years away from Earth.
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NASA's K2 mission: The Kepler Space Telescope's Second Chance to Shine
From exoplanets to supernovae discoveries, a spacecraft’s second life continues to shine as K2.
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Solar Eclipse Over the South Pacific Ocean
During the afternoon of March 9, 2016, a total solar eclipse was visible in parts of southeast Asia. An eclipse occurs when the moon passes directly between Earth and the sun. The MODIS instrument on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image of the total solar eclipse moving across the south Pacific Ocean at 03:05 UTC on March 9, 2016.
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Media, Public Invited to Visit NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Exhibit at ‘South by Southwest'
NASA is partnering with the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) and the Northrop Grumman Corporation to highlight the James Webb Space Telescope at South by Southwest (SXSW) from March 13 to 19, 2016.
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Celebrating International Women's Day
On April 8, 2010, STS-131 mission specialists Stephanie Wilson of NASA, Naoko Yamazaki of JAXA, Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger of NASA, and Expedition 23 flight engineer Tracy Caldwell Dyson (top left) work at the robotics workstation on the International Space Station, in support of transfer operations using the station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm .
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Ahuna Mons on Ceres Seen From Low-Altitude Mapping Orbit
The mysterious mountain Ahuna Mons is seen in this mosaic of images from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft.
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Hubble and a Stellar Fingerprint
Showcased at the center of this Hubble Space Telescope image is an emission-line star known as IRAS 12196-6300, located just under 2,300 light-years from Earth.
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Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly Back in Texas after His Year in Space
Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly of NASA is seen after returning to Ellington Field, Thursday, March 3, 2016 in Houston, Texas after his return to Earth the previous day.
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One-Year Crew Returns to Earth
The Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly of NASA and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov of Roscosmos near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 (Kazakh time).
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Last Sunrise From a Year in Space
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly shared a series of five sunrise photographs on Tuesday, March 1, 2016, as he prepared to depart the space station and return to Earth aboard a Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft. Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov are scheduled to undock their Soyuz at 8:02 p.m. EST and land at 11:25 p.m.