Participants in a NASA Social to preview the landing of the Mars Science Laboratory’s (MSL) Curiosity rover photograph NASA and JPL personnel as they hold up tires from various Mars rovers over the years during a NASA Social held at the Jet Propulsion Laborato... More »
A model of the Mars rover Curiosity, similar to the one shown here, will ride in the Inaugural Parade on Jan. 21. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech It’s an all-American, once-every-four-years tradition: the inauguration of a president. On Monday, Jan. 21, the R... More »
At left, the extent of the 2005 megadrought in the western Amazon rainforests during the summer months of June, July and August as measured by NASA satellites. The most impacted areas are shown in shades of red and yellow. The circled area in the right panel s... More »
This set of images from the radar instrument on NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows a relatively “fresh” crater called Sinlap (left) and an extremely degraded crater called Soi (right). Sinlap has a depth-to-diameter ratio close to what we see on Jupiter’s moon Ga... More »
A team of scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is testing whether organic molecules can be brewed in a simulated ocean vent. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech This week, fizzy ocean water and the alkaline fluid that bubbles up from deep ocean vents are... More »
Contributions of nitrogen dioxide emissions – the primary source of ozone- to the global average thermal absorption of ozone as observed by the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer instrument on NASA’s Aura spacecraft in Aug. 2006. High values (red) indicate tha... More »
On Sol 84 (Oct. 31, 2012), NASA’s Curiosity rover used the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) to capture this set of 55 high-resolution images, which were stitched together to create this full-color self-portrait. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science ... More »
‘John Klein’ Site Selected for Curiosity’s Drill Debut This view shows the patch of veined, flat-lying rock selected as the first drilling site for NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity is driving toward a... More »
This still image is from an animation that re-creates the final descent of ESA’s Huygens probe as it landed on Titan on Jan. 14, 2005, after it was dropped off by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Image credit: ESA and ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona Eight... 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 NASA will host a media teleconference at 10 a.m. PST (1 p.m.... More »
Asteroid Apophis was discovered on June 19, 2004. Image credit: UH/IA JPL scientists have effectively have ruled out the possibility the asteroid Aphophis will impact Earth during a close flyby in 2036. The scientists used updated information obtained by NASA... More »
This composite of the giant barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 combines visible light images from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope with far-ultraviolet (1,528 angstroms) data from NASA’s GALEX and 3.6-micron infrared data acquired by NASA’s ... More »
