The Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex, located in the Mojave Desert in California, is one of three complexes which comprise NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN). The DSN provides radio communications for all of NASA’s interplanetary spacecraft and is also... More »
The Day the Earth Smiled: Sneak Preview In this rare image taken on July 19, 2013, the wide-angle camera on NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has captured Saturn’s rings and our planet Earth and its moon in the same frame. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science ... More »
As NASA’s Cassini spacecraft turned its imaging cameras to Earth, scientists, engineers and visitors at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., gathered to wave at our robotic photographer in the Saturn system on July 19, 2013. Credit: NASA/JPL-Cal... More »
This picture shows a lab demonstration of the measurement chamber inside the Tunable Laser Spectrometer, an instrument that is part of the Sample Analysis at Mars investigation on NASA’s Curiosity rover. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech A pair of new papers re... More »
This simulated view from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows the expected positions of Saturn and Earth on July 19, 2013, around the time Cassini will take Earth’s picture. Cassini will be about 898 million miles (1.44 billion kilometers) away from Earth at the ti... More »
NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has been on the western rim of Endeavour Crater in Meridiani Planum for about two years. Until May 2013, it was investigating sedimentary layers that are three to four billion years old on a portion of the rim called “... More »
This artist’s concept shows a Super Venus planet on the left, and a Super Earth on the right. Researchers use a concept known as the habitable zone to distinguish between these two types of planets, which exist beyond our solar system. Image credit: NASA/JPL-C... More »
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured this image with its left front Hazard-Avoidance Camera (Hazcam) just after completing a drive that took the mission’s total driving distance past the 1 kilometer (0.62 mile) mark. The image was taken on July 16, 2013, durin... More »
Kidspace is throwing an action packed Birthday Party for the Galvin Physics 1st Anniversary over the weekend of July 12-14, celebrating the increased scope of learning and exposure to physics since its opening day July 12, 2012. “It is fun to have all the ... More »
Bead and design lovers will flock to the Hilton Pasadena this July 25 to 28 for the Pasadena Bead and Design Show, and with 300 artisan booths, galleries, and merchant displays offering handmade, artistic, and vintage bead, jewelry, gemstones, art clothing and... More »
Debris disks around stars naturally form complex structures without the presence of a planet. This image shows the dust density and the growth of structure in a simulated disk, which extends about 100 times farther from its star than Earth’s orbit around the s... More »
Don Yeomans, manager of NASA’s Near-Earth Object Program Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech For his work making the solar system’s nomads of the night sky — near-Earth objects, asteroids and comets — ta... More »
