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https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/1-themis-views-mars-arsia-mons-volcano-crop1-c27fa8/ Arsia Mons, one of the Red Planet’s largest volcanoes, peeks through a blanket of water ice clouds in this image captured by NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter on May 2, 2025.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/1-themis-views-mars-arsia-mons-volcano-crop1-c27fa8/ Mon, 23 Jun 2025 16:55 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/gsfc-20171208-archive-e001436orig/ This full-disk image from NOAA’s GOES-13 satellite shows the Americas at the start of astronomical summer in the Northern Hemisphere on June 21, 2012.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/gsfc-20171208-archive-e001436orig/ Fri, 20 Jun 2025 16:18 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/nasas-31st-annual-human-exploration-rover-challenge-herc-at-the-u-s-space-rocket-center-huntsville-al/ More than 500 students with 75 teams from around the world participated in the 31st year of NASA’s Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC) on April 11 and April 12, 2025, near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Participating teams represented 35 colleges and universities, 38 high schools, and two middle schools from 20 states, Puerto Rico, and 16 other nations.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/nasas-31st-annual-human-exploration-rover-challenge-herc-at-the-u-s-space-rocket-center-huntsville-al/ Wed, 18 Jun 2025 18:08 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/jsc2024e034404orig/ A curious cow watches as NASA astronauts Andre Douglas and Kate Rubins perform a simulated moonwalk in the San Francisco Volcanic Field in Northern Arizona on May 14, 2024.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/jsc2024e034404orig/ Tue, 17 Jun 2025 17:42 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/hubble-ic758-potw2523a/ This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the barred spiral galaxy IC 758.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/hubble-ic758-potw2523a/ Mon, 16 Jun 2025 18:45 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/cosmic-dawn-screening-at-greenbelt-cinema/ Attendees line up to enter the theater for a screening of the new NASA+ documentary “Cosmic Dawn: The Untold Story of the James Webb Space Telescope,” Wednesday, June 11, 2025, at the Greenbelt Cinema in Greenbelt, Maryland. Featuring never-before-seen footage, Cosmic Dawn offers an unprecedented glimpse into the assembly, testing, and launch of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/cosmic-dawn-screening-at-greenbelt-cinema/ Fri, 13 Jun 2025 17:50 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/pismis-24/ The star cluster Pismis 24 lies within the much larger emission nebula called NGC 6357, located about 8,000 light-years from Earth. The gas below the stars glows through ionization caused by intense ultraviolet radiation from the massive young stars within the cluster.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/pismis-24/ Thu, 12 Jun 2025 18:42 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/ksc-2013-3063orig/ At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a bobcat wades through one of the waterways near Launch Pad 39B.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/ksc-2013-3063orig/ Wed, 11 Jun 2025 19:26 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/sts111-306-012orig/ Astronaut Franklin R. Chang-Diaz works with a grapple fixture during a June 2002 spacewalk – the first spacewalk of the STS-111 mission.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/sts111-306-012orig/ Tue, 10 Jun 2025 18:24 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/caldasridge-oli2-20250519-lrg/ Amid a patchwork of fields, towns, and winding rivers and roads in central Brazil stands a monolithic oval-shaped plateau. This conspicuous feature, the Serra de Caldas (also known as the Caldas Novas dome and Caldas Ridge), is perched about 300 meters (1,000 feet) above the surrounding landscape in the state of Goiás.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/caldasridge-oli2-20250519-lrg/ Mon, 09 Jun 2025 17:34 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/54565613170-7e8bef5479-o/ NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged the Sombrero Galaxy with its NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera), which shows dust from the galaxy’s outer ring blocking stellar light from stars within the galaxy. In the central region of the galaxy, the roughly 2,000 globular clusters, or collections of hundreds of thousands of old stars held together by gravity, glow in the near-infrared. The Sombrero Galaxy is around 30 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo. From Earth, we see this galaxy nearly “edge-on,” or from the side.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/54565613170-7e8bef5479-o/ Fri, 06 Jun 2025 18:04 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/capturing-candyfloss-clouds/ This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a cloudscape in the Large Magellanic Cloud., a dwarf satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/capturing-candyfloss-clouds/ Thu, 05 Jun 2025 15:23 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/s65-30432orig/ Astronaut Edward H. White II, pilot of the Gemini IV four-day Earth-orbital mission, floats in the zero gravity of space outside the Gemini IV spacecraft.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/s65-30432orig/ Tue, 03 Jun 2025 19:26 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/lprt-lg/ Scientists have discovered a star behaving like no other seen before, giving fresh clues about the origin of a new class of mysterious objects.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/lprt-lg/ Mon, 02 Jun 2025 18:14 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/nhq202005300075large/ President Donald Trump steps onstage to speak following the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft on NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley aboard, Saturday, May 30, 2020, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/nhq202005300075large/ Fri, 30 May 2025 14:29 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/9373816944-46443992f4-o/ Sixteen of 19 astronaut candidates named on May 29, 1980, and two European trainees as payload specialists pose for photographers in the briefing room in the public affairs facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/9373816944-46443992f4-o/ Thu, 29 May 2025 20:08 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/hubble-hers-020941-potw2401a/ This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the remote galaxy HerS 020941.1+001557, which appears as a red arc that partially encircles a foreground elliptical galaxy.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/hubble-hers-020941-potw2401a/ Wed, 28 May 2025 18:27 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/waning-gibbous-moon-sets-behind-flag-at-maf/ The waning gibbous moon sets behind a flag at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans just after sunrise on Wednesday, March 19, 2025.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/waning-gibbous-moon-sets-behind-flag-at-maf/ Fri, 23 May 2025 19:02 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/expedition-73-preflight-2/ A flower is seen in the foreground with a Soyuz rocket on the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on April 7, 2025. Expedition 73 crewmembers including NASA astronaut Jonny Kim launched aboard their Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft on April 8.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/expedition-73-preflight-2/ Thu, 22 May 2025 18:41 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/p25-037-35orig/ NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft is seen during its “aluminum bird” systems testing at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California. The test verified how the aircraft’s hardware and software work together, responding to pilot inputs and handling injected system failures.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/p25-037-35orig/ Wed, 21 May 2025 16:25 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/pia07997/ On May 19th, 2005, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view as the Sun sank below the rim of Gusev crater on Mars. This panoramic camera mosaic was taken around 6:07 in the evening of the rover's 489th Martian day, or sol.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/pia07997/ Tue, 20 May 2025 18:26 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/54521739963-b58dc96fbb-o/ Webb has found crystalline water ice in a debris disk around a young, Sun-like star called HD 181327. Based on its presence in our own solar system, scientists have expected to see it in other star systems — but haven't had sensitive enough instruments to provide definitive proof until now.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/54521739963-b58dc96fbb-o/ Mon, 19 May 2025 16:23 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/41304996754-d135f524b1-o/ Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, NASA's first Chief of Astronomy, briefs Astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin on celestial objects in 1965 in Washington, D.C.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/41304996754-d135f524b1-o/ Fri, 16 May 2025 18:19 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/pia26556orig/ NASA's Perseverance rover captured this view of Deimos, the smaller of Mars' two moons, shining in the sky at 4:27 a.m. local time on March 1, 2025, the 1,433rd Martian day, or sol, of the mission.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/pia26556orig/ Thu, 15 May 2025 18:09 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/pia09579orig/ The perfectly picturesque spiral galaxy known as Messier 81, or M81, looks sharp in this composite from NASA's Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes and NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/pia09579orig/ Wed, 14 May 2025 19:51 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/gmt302_19_11_don-pettit_50mm-lightning/ Astronaut Don Pettit took this nighttime photo while the International Space Station orbited near the Andaman Sea in Southeast Asia.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/gmt302_19_11_don-pettit_50mm-lightning/ Tue, 13 May 2025 16:14 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/pia26595orig/ JunoCam, the visible light imager aboard NASA's Juno, captured this view of Jupiter's northern high latitudes during the spacecraft's 69th flyby of the giant planet on Jan. 28, 2025. Jupiter's belts and zones stand out in this enhanced color rendition, along with the turbulence along their edges caused by winds going in different directions.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/pia26595orig/ Mon, 12 May 2025 19:31 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/ceb-0969orig/ Students from the University of Massachusetts Amherst team carry their high-powered rocket toward the launch pad at NASA’s 2025 Student Launch launch day competition in Toney, Alabama, on April 4, 2025.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/ceb-0969orig/ Fri, 09 May 2025 21:41 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/gmt121_22_11_nichole-ayers_eva-crew-camera-2-2/ NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 flight engineer Anne McClain is pictured near one of the International Space Station's main solar arrays during a spacewalk to upgrade the orbital outpost's power generation system and relocate a communications antenna.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/gmt121_22_11_nichole-ayers_eva-crew-camera-2-2/ Thu, 08 May 2025 20:15 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/grc-2015-c-06894orig/ The NASA "meatball" logo mounted on the south side of the Flight Research Building at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, as seen through foliage.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/grc-2015-c-06894orig/ Wed, 07 May 2025 18:08 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/pia26352/ NASA's SPHEREx mission is observing the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, or wavelengths of light not visible to the human eye. This image shows a section of sky in one wavelength (3.29 microns), revealing a cloud of dust made of a molecule similar to soot or smoke.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/pia26352/ Tue, 06 May 2025 18:28 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/hubble-ngc1961-potw2517a/ This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a peculiar spiral galaxy called Arp 184 or NGC 1961.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/hubble-ngc1961-potw2517a/ Mon, 05 May 2025 18:31 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/gmt110_17_56_jonny-kim_1012_72s-soyuz-undocking/ The Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft is pictured backing away from the International Space Station shortly after undocking from the Rassvet module on April 19, 2025. The Soyuz crew ship would parachute to a landing in Kazakhstan about three hours later returning NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner back to Earth after a 220-day space research mission.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/gmt110_17_56_jonny-kim_1012_72s-soyuz-undocking/ Fri, 02 May 2025 18:32 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/3dmodels-casa-2025-astro-2/ Cassiopeia A (Cas A) is a supernova remnant located about 11,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia. It spans approximately 10 light-years.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/3dmodels-casa-2025-astro-2/ Thu, 01 May 2025 14:06 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/s84-27211orig/ Astronaut Ronald E. McNair, STS-41B mission specialist, used some of his off-duty time aboard the space shuttle Challenger to play his saxophone.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/s84-27211orig/ Wed, 30 Apr 2025 21:07 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/the-squid-and-the-whale/ This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 77, also known as the Squid Galaxy.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/the-squid-and-the-whale/ Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:46 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/3dmodels-cygnus-astro-74ffde/ The Cygnus Loop (also known as the Veil Nebula) is a supernova remnant, the remains of the explosive death of a massive star.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/3dmodels-cygnus-astro-74ffde/ Mon, 28 Apr 2025 17:24 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/hubble-m72-potw2516a/ This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the globular cluster Messier 72 (M72).

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/hubble-m72-potw2516a/ Fri, 25 Apr 2025 17:08 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/pia26430/ A NASA spacesuit glove designed for use during spacewalks on the International Space Station is prepared for thermal vacuum testing inside a one-of-a-kind chamber called CITADEL (Cryogenic Ice Testing, Acquisition Development, and Excavation Laboratory) at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California on Nov. 1, 2023.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/pia26430/ Thu, 24 Apr 2025 19:20 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/final-0798443319-dec/ The asteroid Donaldjohanson as seen by the Lucy Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (L’LORRI). This is one of the most detailed images returned by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft during its flyby. This image was taken at 1:51 p.m. EDT (17:51 UTC), April 20, 2025, near closest approach, from a range of approximately 660 miles (1,100 km). The spacecraft’s closest approach distance was 600 miles (960 km), but the image shown was taken approximately 40 seconds beforehand. The image has been sharpened and processed to enhance contrast.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/final-0798443319-dec/ Wed, 23 Apr 2025 13:50 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/gmt064_ehdc1/ The sun's glint beams off a partly cloudy Atlantic Ocean just after sunrise as the International Space Station orbited 263 miles above on March 5, 2025.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/gmt064_ehdc1/ Tue, 22 Apr 2025 16:28 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/stsci-01jr92b3nyh10zq49kc8qmg569/ NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has taken the most detailed image of planetary nebula NGC 1514 to date thanks to its unique mid-infrared observations. Webb shows its rings as intricate clumps of dust. It’s also easier to see holes punched through the bright pink central region.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/stsci-01jr92b3nyh10zq49kc8qmg569/ Mon, 21 Apr 2025 17:41 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/eagle-nebula-3/ This towering structure of billowing gas and dark, obscuring dust might only be a small portion of the Eagle Nebula, but it is no less majestic in appearance for it. 9.5 light-years tall and 7000 light-years distant from Earth, this dusty sculpture is refreshed with the use of new processing techniques.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/eagle-nebula-3/ Fri, 18 Apr 2025 19:32 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/51d-9092large/ The space shuttle Discovery launches from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, heading through Atlantic skies toward its 51-D mission. The seven-member crew lifted off at 8:59 a.m. ET, April 12, 1985.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/51d-9092large/ Thu, 17 Apr 2025 20:27 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/afs-8-101-1017/ A scrub jay perches on a branch near the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 22, 2020.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/afs-8-101-1017/ Wed, 16 Apr 2025 21:08 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/54445421160-48ee2acb22-o/ On March 18, 2025, NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) arrived at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for thermal vacuum testing at the X-ray and Cryogenic Facility (XRCF), which simulates the harsh conditions of space.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/54445421160-48ee2acb22-o/ Tue, 15 Apr 2025 16:08 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/hubble-ngc346-heic2502a/ This new image showcases the dazzling young star cluster NGC 346. Although both the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope have released images of NGC 346 previously, this image includes new data and is the first to combine Hubble observations made at infrared, optical, and ultraviolet wavelengths into an intricately detailed view of this vibrant star-forming factory.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/hubble-ngc346-heic2502a/ Mon, 14 Apr 2025 18:23 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/apollo-13-launch-ref-msfc-70-msg-2200-13-mix-file-2/ NASA astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert launch aboard the Apollo 13 spacecraft from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 11, 1970.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/apollo-13-launch-ref-msfc-70-msg-2200-13-mix-file-2/ Fri, 11 Apr 2025 15:59 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/nasa-2008336/ In northwest Australia, the Great Sandy Desert holds great geological interest as a zone of active sand dune movement. While a variety of dune forms appear across the region, this astronaut photograph features numerous linear dunes (about 25 meters high) separated in a roughly regular fashion (0.5 to 1.5 kilometers apart).

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/nasa-2008336/ Thu, 10 Apr 2025 15:49 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/expedition-73-launch-3/ A Soyuz rocket launches to the International Space Station with Expedition 73 crew members aboard, Tuesday, April 8, 2025, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/expedition-73-launch-3/ Wed, 09 Apr 2025 18:42 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/pia23682orig/ This March 4, 2020, image shows Deep Space Station 43, a 70-meter-wide (230-feet-wide) radio antenna at NASA’s Deep Space Network facility in Canberra, Australia. The facility celebrated its 60th anniversary on March 19, 2025, while also breaking ground on a new radio antenna. The pair of achievements are major milestones for the network, which communicates with spacecraft all over the solar system using giant dish antennas located at three complexes around the globe.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/pia23682orig/ Tue, 08 Apr 2025 19:36 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/jsc2025e034725orig/ From the mountains of Turin to the deserts of Arizona, a core element of Gateway, humanity’s first lunar space station, is now one step closer to the Moon.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/jsc2025e034725orig/ Mon, 07 Apr 2025 17:21 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/jsc2024e052672-alt2orig/ NASA astronaut Jonny Kim poses for a portrait while wearing a spacesuit on July 17, 2024. In his first mission, Kim will serve as a flight engineer during Expedition 72/73 on the International Space Station.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/jsc2024e052672-alt2orig/ Fri, 04 Apr 2025 18:04 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/jsc2025e034746orig/ The four astronauts who will be the first to fly to the Moon under NASA's Artemis campaign – NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen – have designed an emblem to represent their mission that references both their distant destination and the home they will return to.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/jsc2025e034746orig/ Thu, 03 Apr 2025 17:55 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/idl-tiff-file-124/ In about 5 billion years, our Sun will run out of fuel and expand, possibly engulfing Earth. These end stages of a star’s life can be utterly beautiful – as is the case with this planetary nebula called the Helix Nebula. Astronomers study these objects by looking at all kinds of light. This images show X-rays from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (magenta), optical light data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (orange, light blue), infrared data from the European Southern Observatory VISTA telescope (gold, dark blue), and ultraviolet data from GALEX (purple) of the Helix Nebula.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/idl-tiff-file-124/ Wed, 02 Apr 2025 17:10 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/grc-2024-c-12100-2/ Thomas Ozoroski, a researcher at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, takes icing accretion measurements in October 2024 as part of transonic truss-braced wing concept research. Researchers at NASA Glenn conducted another test campaign in March 2025.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/grc-2024-c-12100-2/ Tue, 01 Apr 2025 16:52 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/afs-8-101-1010/ Teams with NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems and primary contractor Amentum integrate the SLS (Space Launch System) Moon rocket with the solid rocket boosters onto mobile launcher 1 inside High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Sunday, March 23, 2025. Artemis II is the first crewed test flight under NASA’s Artemis campaign and is another step toward missions on the lunar surface and helping the agency prepare for future human missions to Mars.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/afs-8-101-1010/ Mon, 31 Mar 2025 18:42 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/grc-1944-c-03991orig/ In this February 1944 publicity photo, men stand in front of turning vanes inside the Altitude Wind Tunnel (AWT) at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory. The AWT was the only wind tunnel capable of testing full-size aircraft engines in simulated altitude conditions. A large wooden drive fan, located on the other side of these vanes, created wind speeds up to 500 miles per hour.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/grc-1944-c-03991orig/ Fri, 28 Mar 2025 16:55 GMTNASA Image of the Day


https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/pia26583orig/ The instrument enclosure of NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor is prepared for critical environmental tests inside the historic Chamber A at the Space Environment Simulation Laboratory at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston in December 2024.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/pia26583orig/ Thu, 27 Mar 2025 19:03 GMTNASA Image of the Day