Scoop Marks in the Sand at ‘Rocknest’ This is a view of the third (left) and fourth (right) trenches made by the 1.6-inch-wide (4-centimeter-wide) scoop on NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity in October 2012. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS › Unannotated version... More »
Artist’s concept of NASA’s Voyager spacecraft. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA will host a media teleconference at 11 a.m. PST (2 p.m. EST) on Monday, Dec. 3, to discuss the latest findings and travels of NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft. Voyager 1 and its twin... More »
Mercury’s North Polar Region Acquired By The Arecibo Observatory Image Credit: National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, Arecibo Observatory Instruments aboard JPL’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft studying... More »
The midnight sun casts a golden glow on an iceberg and its reflection in Disko Bay, Greenland. Much of Greenland’s annual ice mass loss occurs through calving of icebergs such as this. Image credit: Ian Joughin, University of Washington An international team o... More »
This artist’s concept features NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover, a mobile robot for investigating Mars’ past or present ability to sustain microbial life. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The next news conference about the NASA Mars rover Curiosity... More »
This image from NASA’s Cassini mission was taken on Nov. 27, 2012, with Cassini’s narrow-angle camera. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has been traveling the Saturnian system in a set of inclined, or tilted, orb... More »
This artist’s impression of Saturn’s moon Titan shows the change in observed atmospheric effects before, during and after equinox in 2009. The Titan globes also provide an impression of the detached haze layer that extends all around the moon (blue). This imag... More »
Hurricane Sandy as seen by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA’s Terra spacecraft on Oct. 28, 2012, when the Category 1 storm was centered off the southeastern U.S. coast. A new NASA-led study finds that analysis of rel... More »
This artist’s impression shows the orbits of planets and comets around the star 61 Vir, superimposed on a view from the Herschel Space Telescope. Image credits: ESA/AOES Astronomers have discovered vast comet belts surrounding two nearby planetary systems know... More »
A regional dust storm visible in the southern hemisphere of Mars in this nearly global mosaic of observations made by the Mars Color Imager on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Nov. 25, 2012, has contracted from its size a week earlier (http://photojournal... More »
Nine new radar images of near-Earth asteroid 2012 PA8 were obtained between Oct. 31 and Nov. 13, 2012, with data collected by NASA’s 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech A collage shows nine ra... More »
Nine new radar images of near-Earth asteroid 2012 PA8 were obtained between Oct. 31 and Nov. 13, 2012, with data collected by NASA’s 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech A collage shows nine ... More »
