Staring Into the Hurricane's Eye
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay On September 28, the Landsat 8 satellite passed directly over Ian’s eye as the storm approached southwest Florida. The natural-color image above was acquired by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) at 11:57 a.m. local time (15:57 Universal Time), three hours before the storm made landfall in Caya Costa.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/staring-into-the-hurricanes-eye
DART’s Penultimate View
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay This is the last complete image of the asteroid Dimorphos, as seen by our Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) 2 seconds before impact.
Neptune Shows Off Its Rings in Near-Infrared Light
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay On Sept. 21, 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope delivered the clearest view of Neptune’s rings in more than 30 years.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/neptune-shows-off-its-rings-in-near-infrared-light
Ellen Ochoa Suits Up
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay Astronaut Ellen Ochoa, STS-110 flight engineer, wears a launch and entry suit as part of water survival training in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory in 2001.
DART Team Celebrates Successful Collision
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay In this image from Sept. 26, 2022, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) team, Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen, and guests at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory cheer as they receive confirmation of DART’s collision with Dimorphos.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/dart-team-celebrates-successful-collision
John W. Young’s Lunar Salute
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay Astronaut John W. Young, commander of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission, leaps from the lunar surface as he salutes the United States flag at the Descartes landing site during the first Apollo 16 spacewalk.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/john-w-young-s-lunar-salute
Endeavour Gets a Piggyback Ride
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay Our Shuttle Carrier Aircraft ferries the Space Shuttle Endeavour over the Johnson Space Center in Houston in this Sept. 20, 2012, image.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/endeavour-gets-a-piggyback-ride
Frank Rubio Trains for Spacewalk
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay In this March 7, 2022, image, astronaut Frank Rubio gets help putting on a spacesuit at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston to train for spacewalks.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/frank-rubio-trains-for-spacewalk
A Stormy Stellar Nursery
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay This cloudy, turbulent scene shows a stellar nursery within the Large Magellanic Cloud known as N159.
Michael E. López-Alegría Poses During Spacewalk
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay Astronaut Michael E. López-Alegría, mission specialist, is photographed in this close-up view during one of the STS-92 sessions of extravehicular activity on Oct. 18, 2000.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/michael-e-l-pez-alegr-a-poses-during-spacewalk
A Bird's-Eye View of the Vehicle Assembly Base
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay A little blue heron is seen in front of the Vehicle Assembly Building as preparations for launch continue, Friday, Sept. 2, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/a-birds-eye-view-of-the-vehicle-assembly-base
Hubble Studies a Spectacular Spiral
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay The galaxy NGC 1961 unfurls its gorgeous spiral arms in this newly released image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2022/hubble-studies-a-spectacular-spiral
Snowcapped Mountains in Western China
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay The International Space Station captured a portion of the Tanggula Mountains near Hala Lake from 260 miles above the Earth on Sept. 5th, 2022.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/snowcapped-mountains-in-western-china
Setting the Clock on a Stellar Explosion
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay A new image of SNR 0519-69.0 shows the debris of a star that exploded several hundred years ago in Earth’s timeframe.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/images/setting-the-clock-on-a-stellar-explosion.html
Reflecting on President Kennedy's Moonshot Speech
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay On Sept. 12, 1962, President Kennedy speaks before a crowd of 35,000 people at Rice University in Houston.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/reflecting-on-president-kennedys-moonshot-speech
Mediterranean Cities Light Up the Night
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay This nighttime photograph from the International Space Station (ISS) as it orbited 261 miles above looks across the Mediterranean Sea from north Africa to southern Europe.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/mediterranean-cities-light-up-the-night
Voyager 1’s Mission to the Outer Planet Begins
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay The Voyager mission was designed to take advantage of a rare geometric arrangement of the outer planets in the late 1970s and the 1980s which allowed for a four-planet tour for a minimum of propellant and trip time.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/voyager-1-s-mission-to-the-outer-planet-begins
The Crab Nebula: Observations Through Time
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay This composite of the Crab Nebula was made with data from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory (blue and white), Hubble Space Telescope (purple), and Spitzer Space Telescope (pink).
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/the-crab-nebula-observations-through-time
Joe Acaba Goes from Teacher to Astronaut
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay It's Teacher Appreciation Week and teachers and space travel go hand-in-hand.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/joe-acaba-goes-from-teacher-to-astronaut
Sang Choi Earns a Place in NASA's Inventors Hall of Fame
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay Sang Choi has worked for NASA for nearly 40 years. Since beginning work at the Langley Research Center in October 1980, Choi has received 71 awards from the agency.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/sang-choi-earns-a-place-in-nasas-inventors-hall-of-fame
