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NASA’s Lunar Orbiter Gets an Art Lesson with Lasers

In the ultimate example of science imitating art, engineers working with NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter recently beamed an image of…

11 years ago

Region in LMC Ablaze with Light and Color

Hubble view of star formation region N11 from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Image credit: NASA/ESA Hubble. Zoom by John…

11 years ago

New Look and New Animation for Orion’s 2017 Flight to the Moon and Back

http://youtu.be/canmpG_uSow The Orion spacecraft has gotten a new look for its first launch atop the inaugural flight of NASA’s Space…

11 years ago

A Hi-Res Mosaic of Mercury’s Crescent

A view of Mercury from MESSENGER's October 2008 flyby (NASA / JHUAPL / Gordan Ugarkovic) Every now and then a…

11 years ago

Rover Team Chooses 1st Rock Drilling Target for Curiosity

Image caption: Time lapse mosaic shows Curiosity rover’s arm movement from raised position to surface deployment on Sol 149 (Jan.…

11 years ago

Kepler Finds Hundreds of New Exoplanet Candidates

Artist's depiction of the Kepler 10 system, which contains planets 2.2 and 1.4 times the size of Earth. (NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech) Kepler…

11 years ago

Curiosity Touches Mars at Yellowknife Bay and Drives to Snake River for Drilling

Image Caption: Photo mosaic shows NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover in action reaching out to investigate rocks at a location called…

11 years ago

Ancient Impacts Stained Vesta with Carbon-Rich Material

Composite-color 3D image of Cornelia crater on Vesta (NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA) Ever since arriving at Vesta in July 2011, NASA's Dawn spacecraft…

11 years ago

The South Rim of Aristarchus

LROC view looking obliquely of the south rim of Aristarchus from the west (NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University) Flying over at an…

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