Animation illustrating NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter flying on Mars. Credit: NASA It has been a week of heightened apprehension on the Mars Helicopter team as we…
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NASA’s Deep Space Atomic Clock has been operating aboard the General Atomics Orbital Test Bed satellite since June 2019. This illustration shows the spacecraft in…
Artist’s concept of NASA’s WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) spacecraft, which was an infrared-wavelength astronomical space telescope active from December 2009 to February 2011. In…
The bright white region of this image shows the icy cap that covers Mars’ south pole, composed of frozen water and frozen carbon dioxide. ESA’s…
This photo was taken on March 19, 2017, by the Mars Hand Lens Imager camera on the arm of NASA’s Curiosity rover. The image helped…
This shows the sequence in which NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took 62 individual images with its WATSON camera, on April 6, 2021, before they were…
Mars’ ‘Delta Scarp’ From More Than a Mile Away: Perseverance scientist Vivian Sun was excited to see certain geologic features in imagery of Jezero Crater’s…
A new study finds that reduced fossil fuel burning due to lockdowns in American and Asian cities caused a global drop in ozone pollution. Credit:…
NEO Surveyor is a new mission proposal designed to discover and characterize most of the potentially hazardous asteroids that are near the Earth. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech…
Left to right: The mosaic and geologic maps of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede were assembled incorporating the best available imagery from NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2…
RoboSimian and Surrogate are robots that were designed and built at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Credit: JPL-Caltech JPL is the lead NASA…
To clean a bit of dust from one of its solar panels, NASA’s InSight lander trickled sand above the panel. The wind-borne sand grains then…
This image shows a forest giving off moisture into the air, or transpiring. When combined with moisture that evaporates from the land, both processes drive…
This 3D printed radiator for a CubeSat combines aluminum and a small bit of copper to allow heat to spread more evenly across the face.…
Curiosity Spots Clouds Over Mont Mercou: NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured these clouds just after sunset on March 19, 2021, the 3,063rd Martian day, or…
This illustration, updated as of December 2020, depicts NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft. The mission, targeting a 2024 launch, will investigate whether Jupiter’s moon Europa and…
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover took this 360-degree panorama while atop “Mont Mercou,” a rock formation that offered a view into Gale Crater below.…
This low-angle self-portrait of NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at the site from which it reached down to drill into a rock target…
The Orpheus submersible robot is being developed by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and JPL to explore the deep ocean autonomously. Orpheus uses vision-based navigation that…
A lava flow from Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano enters the ocean near Isaac Hale Beach Park on August 5, 2018. The volcano’s 2018 eruption was its…