Jupiter in Ganymede’s Shadow
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay During its 40th close pass by Jupiter, our Juno spacecraft saw Ganymede cast a large, dark spot on the planet on Feb. 25, 2022.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jupiter-in-ganymede-s-shadow
IXPE Measures Exploded Star Remains
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay When a massive star collapsed in the Cassiopeia constellation, it generated a supernova explosion with some of the fastest shockwaves in the Milky Way.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/ixpe-measures-exploded-star-remains
Hubble Views a Turbulent Stellar Nursery
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay The lives of newborn stars are tempestuous, as this image of the Herbig-Haro objects HH 1 and HH 2 from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope depicts.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2022/hubble-views-a-turbulent-stellar-nursery
Crew-4 Members Pose for Pre-Return Photo
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 members Jessica Watkins, Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, and Samantha Cristoforetti link arms for a portrait on Oct. 14, 2022, just before boarding the Dragon Freedom crew ship, undocking from the International Space Station, and returning to Earth, completing a 170-day space research mission.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/crew-4-members-pose-for-pre-return-photo
Aerial Leaf Peeping in Adirondack Park
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay Our Operational Land Imager-2 on Landsat 9 acquired this vibrant image of deciduous trees and conifers in the Adirondack Mountains in northeast New York on Oct. 8, 2022.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/aerial-leaf-peeping-in-adirondack-park
Safe Return for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 Astronauts
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay After 170 days in orbit, NASA astronauts Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, and Jessica Watkins and European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti safely splashed down Friday, October 14, 2022, off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, completing the agency’s fourth commercial crew mission to the International Space Station.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/safe-return-for-nasa-s-spacex-crew-4-astronauts
Greetings from the Cupola
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay Expedition 67 flight engineers Bob Hines and Jessica Watkins are all smiles in this Sept. 12, 2022, image from the International Space Station cupola.
Sun Rings in New Month with Strong Flare
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay The Sun released an X1 solar flare, captured by our Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) on Oct. 2, 2022.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/sun-rings-in-new-month-with-strong-flare
Hubble Snaps a Pair of Interacting Galaxies
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay The two interacting galaxies making up the pair known as Arp-Madore 608-333 seem to float side by side in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2022/hubble-snaps-a-pair-of-interacting-galaxies
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 Mission Casts Long Exposure Light Beam
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay In this 20-second exposure from Oct. 5, 2022, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/nasa-s-spacex-crew-5-mission-casts-long-exposure-light-beam
Solid Science from Serena Auñón-Chancellor
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay Astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor installs samples for the Microgravity Investigation of Cement Solidification (MICS) experiment aboard the International Space Station (ISS) in this image from Nov. 27, 2018.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/solid-science-from-serena-au-n-chancellor
Astronaut Nicole Mann Trains in T-38
#NASA #ImageOfTheDay Astronaut Nicole Mann sits inside a T-38 trainer jet at Ellington Field in Houston, Texas in this image from Nov. 15, 2018.
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/astronaut-nicole-mann-trains-in-t-38
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
