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 »
Panoramic View From ‘Rocknest’ Position of Curiosity Mars Rover This panorama is a mosaic of images taken by the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on the NASA Mars rover Curiosity while the rover was working at a site called “Rocknest” in October and November 2012. Image ... More »
Scientists with NASA’s Cassini mission have spotted two features shaped like the 1980s video game icon “Pac-Man” on moons of Saturn. One was observed on the moon Mimas in 2010 and the latest was observed on the moon Tethys. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC/... More »
This nearly global mosaic of observations made by the Mars Color Imager on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Nov. 18, 2012, shows a dust storm in Mars’ southern hemisphere. Small white arrows outline the area where dust from the storm is apparent in the at... More »
Planck has discovered a bridge of hot gas that connects galaxy clusters Abell 399 (lower center) and Abell 401 (top left). The galaxy pair is located about a billion light-years from Earth, and the gas bridge extends approximately 10 million light-years betwee... More »
