Space NASA Image of the Day

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Studying the ‘Lost Habitable’ World of Venus

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is designing mission concepts to survive the planet's extreme temperatures and atmospheric pressure. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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X-59 Wind Tunnel Testing at NASA Glenn

This colorized schlieren image is of a small-scale model of NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology airplane. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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The Colors of Water

Much like the sky, rivers are rarely painted one color. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Remembering Apollo 1

On Jan. 27, 1967, tragedy struck on the launch pad at Cape Kennedy during a preflight test for Apollo 204 (AS-204). (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Remembering Challenger and Her Crew

In this image taken in 1985, four members of the Challenger STS-51L crew train on the flight deck of the shuttle crew compartment. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Learning How Ocean Water Melts Glaciers

To learn how ocean water is melting glaciers, NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland mission extensively surveyed the coastline of the world’s largest island. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Lightness of Being: Remembering Space Shuttle Columbia and Her Crew

The bright Sun dissects the airglow above Earth's horizon in this view photographed with a digital still camera from during the STS-107 mission. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Climate Scientist Dr. Christian Braneon

Dr. Christian Braneon, a climate scientist at NASA GISS, presents data visualizations and the state of current satellite missions to Vice President Kamala Harris. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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R Aquarii: An Expanse of Light

This object is, in fact, a pair: a white dwarf star that steadily burns at a relatively cool temperature and a highly variable red giant. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Dark Mode Activated!

Divers at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) in Houston are setting the stage for future moonwalk training by simulating lunar lighting conditions. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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First Rays of an Orbital Sunrise

Ths January 2022 image shows the first rays of an orbital sunrise as seen from the International Space Station as it orbited above Venezuela. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Daniel G. Nichols

Mathematician Daniel G. Nichols, who worked in the Real-Time Program Development Branch, Mission Planning and Analysis Division, is photographed in NASA's Manned Space Center. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Mark Vande Hei's Window to the World

Astronaut Mark Vande Hei peers at the Earth below from inside the seven-windowed cupola, the International Space Station's window to the world. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Voyager's View of Jupiter's Great Red Spot

This view of Jupiter was taken by Voyager 1. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Hubble Views a Cosmic Interaction

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope feels incredibly three-dimensional for a piece of deep-space imagery. The image shows Arp 282, an interacting galaxy pair composed of the Seyfert galaxy NGC 169 (bottom) and the galaxy IC 1559 (top). (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Dr. Lyndsey McMillon-Brown: Studying Solar Cells

Dr. Lyndsey McMillon-Brown at NASA’s Glenn Research Center leads a study of solar cells made from a material called perovskite. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Orbiting a Red Dwarf Star

This artist's concept shows exoplanet Kepler-1649c orbiting around its host red dwarf star. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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NASA Tests the F/A-18E

A top view shows the wing loading test configuration of a F/A-18E from the Naval Air Systems Command in Patuxent River, Maryland. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Taking a Selfie on the Red Planet

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover landed on the Red Planet on Feb. 18, 2021, and took this selfie over a rock nicknamed “Rochette,” on Sept. 10, 2021. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)

 

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Melba Roy Mouton – Mathematician

Melba Roy Mouton (1929-1990) was a mathematician and computer programmer in NASA’s Trajectory and Geodynamics Division. (More at NASA Picture of The Day)