JunoCam images aren’t just for art and science – sometimes they are processed to bring a chuckle. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia21394.jpg

This week in 1966, the AS-203 rocket launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The Apollo AS-203 mission was an uncrewed test of the vehicle’s second stage, the S-IVB stage, and the instrument unit of the Saturn V to obtain flight information under orbital conditions. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/s66-44314orig.jpg

Vice President Mike Pence addresses NASA employees, Thursday, July 6, 2017, at the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Cape Canaveral, Florida. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/34954147843_64a8dca7a6_o.jpg

Wind is a force to be reckoned with. It can stir up monsoons, carry dust thousands of miles, and sculpt rock into sinuous arches. But sometimes, the effects of wind go unnoticed for years, like when it carves away slowly at the edges of a pond. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/mississippi_oli_2016336_lrg.jpg

The light of a new day on Saturn illuminates the planet’s wavy cloud patterns and the smooth arcs of the vast rings. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia21336_full.jpg

On May 29, 2017, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image of ice covering the Amundsen Gulf, Great Bear Lake, and numerous small lakes in the northern reaches of Canada’s Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Icy lakes and rivers make a significant footprint on the Arctic landscape. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/amundsengulf_tmo_2017149_lrg.jpg

This year, NASA is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the agency’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. In Langley's early years of crafting flight, aviation pioneers flocked to the center for engineering conferences. This photo was taken in Langley's Full Scale Tunnel during the 1934 Aircraft Engineering Research Conference. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/1934conference.jpg

This enhanced-color image of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot was created by citizen scientist Gerald Eichstädt using data from the JunoCam imager on NASA’s Juno spacecraft. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia21773.jpg

NGC 2500 is a particular kind of spiral galaxy known as a barred spiral, its wispy arms swirling out from a bright, elongated core. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/potw1728a_0.jpg

When astronauts return to Earth from destinations beyond the moon in NASA’s Orion spacecraft and splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, they’ll still need to safely get out of the spacecraft and back on dry land. Using the waters off the coast of Galveston, a NASA and Department of Defense team tested Orion exit procedures on July 10-14, 2017. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/35084833674_e2e44cc938_o.jpg

A medium-sized (M2) solar flare and a coronal mass ejection erupted from the same, large active region of the sun on July 14, 2017. The flare lasted almost two hours, quite a long duration. The coils arcing over this active region are particles spiraling along magnetic field lines. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia21836.jpg

This photograph of the Lunar Module at Tranquility Base was taken by Neil Armstrong during the Apollo 11 mission, from the rim of Little West Crater on the lunar surface. Armstrong's shadow and the shadow of the camera are visible in the foreground. This is the furthest distance from the lunar module traveled by either astronaut while on the moon. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/as11-40-5961hr.jpg

Tucked away in the small northern constellation of Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs) is the galaxy NGC 4242. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/potw1729a.jpg

Expedition 52 Flight Engineer Jack Fischer of NASA shared photos and time-lapse video of a glowing green aurora seen from his vantage point 250 miles up, aboard the International Space Station. This aurora photo was taken on June 26, 2017. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss052e007857.jpg

The Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft is seen as it is raised into a vertical position on the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, July 26, 2017. The Expedition 52 crew is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz on Friday, July 28, at 11:41 a.m. EDT (9:41 p.m. Baikonur time). http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/36132963076_4dd2651525_o.jpg

This false-color view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft gazes toward the rings beyond Saturn's sunlit horizon. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia21621-1041.jpg

The Soyuz MS-05 rocket is launched with Expedition 52 flight engineer Sergei Ryazanskiy of Roscosmos, flight engineer Randy Bresnik of NASA, and flight engineer Paolo Nespoli of ESA (European Space Agency), Friday, July 28, 2017 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/nhq201707280011.jpg

On July 26, 2017, a member of the Expedition 52 crew aboard the International Space Station took this photograph of one of the 16 sunrises they experience every day, as the orbiting laboratory travels around Earth. One of the solar panels that provides power to the station is seen in the upper left. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss052e019970.jpg

This mini-panorama combines two photographs taken by Apollo 15 lunar module pilot Jim Irwin, from the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) site, at the end of the second Apollo 15 moonwalk on August 1, 1971. Apollo 15 was the fourth crewed mission to land on the Moon. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/a15pan11845-7.jpg

NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik looks through the hatch of the International Space Station's Bigelow Expandable Aerospace Module (BEAM) on July 31, 2017. The BEAM is an experimental expandable module just over halfway into its planned two-year demonstration on the space station. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss052e023354.jpg

On July 5, 2017, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory watched an active region — an area of intense and complex magnetic fields — rotate into view on the Sun. This image shows a blended view of the sunspot in visible and extreme ultraviolet light, revealing bright coils arcing over the active region — particles spiraling along magnetic field lines. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/sunspotthumb1.jpg