On Nov. 1, 2018, the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 captured a false-color view of flooding along the Nueces River in a series of storms that have delivered historic amounts of rain to central Texas. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/texas_oli_2018305_updated.jpg
The six day old Camp Fire has already attained the unfortunate title of California's deadliest fire. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/campfireaqua.jpg
The Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, with Cygnus spacecraft onboard, is seen on Pad-0A, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018 at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/44051782150_ff701b67c6_o.jpg
The Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, with Cygnus spacecraft onboard, is seen on Pad-0A, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018 at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/44051782150_ff701b67c6_o.jpg
Located 65 million light-years away ia a blue supergiant star that once existed inside a cluster of young stars in the spiral galaxy NGC 3938, as shown in this artist's concept. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/stsci-h-p1847a_f5400x3600.png
In the wake of a fire, a burn scar appears which takes a long time to heal. This scar is from the Woolsey fire which has taken its toll around Thousand Oaks, California. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/woolsey1.jpg
The Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, with Cygnus resupply spacecraft onboard, is seen above the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC, on Nov. 17, 2018. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ng_crs-10_jefferson_memorial_nhq201811170100.jpg
International Space Station crew brought aboard the latest Russian Progress cargo craft. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/384g9174.jpg
On Nov. 20, 1998, the Zarya Functional Cargo Block launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to serve as a temporary control module for the nascent International Space Station. This October 2018 photo shows the station today, fully complete. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/44911459904_375bc02163_k.jpg
A new study using observations by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reports for the first time that silica — one of the most common minerals found on Earth — is formed when massive stars explode. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia22569-snr-g54.jpg
NASA social media participant Bryan Branly takes a photograph of the Mars Cube One (MarCO) model before the Mars InSight pre-landing briefing. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/44232019690_20809a9223_k.jpg
NASA Deputy Associate Administrator Melanie Saunders and astronaut Mike Massimino ring the closing bell of Nasdaq after the NASA's InSight lander successfully touched down on the surface of Mars. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/31126336767_e68c3ac5bb_k.jpg
In Mars' Wirtz Crater, these dunes are likely active. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia22869.jpg
This Hubble Space Telescope mosaic is of a portion of the immense Coma cluster of over 1,000 galaxies, located 300 million light-years from Earth. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/stsci-h-p1844b-q-4571x2571.png
Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to bring a new crew to begin their six and a half month mission on the International Space Station. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/45248114015_bf5ebaf3e9_k.jpg
This image of the horizon is as it was seen from the cockpit of NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center’s F/A-18 research aircraft. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/afrc2018-0287-193small.jpg
Experiments in forest observation, protein crystal growth and in-space fuel transfer demonstration are heading to the International Space Station following the launch Wednesday of SpaceX’s 16th mission. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/45473446114_7d5e5d6fe2_o.jpg
International Space Station Commander Alexander Gerst viewed SpaceX’s Dragon cargo craft chasing the orbital laboratory on Dec. 8, 2018 and took a series of photos. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/45532312914_2634bd334e_k.jpg
Less than three months into its mission, NASA’s Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2, or ICESat-2, is already exceeding scientists’ expectations. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/seaice11.jpg
The Washington National Cathedral is seen lit up with space imagery prior to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Spirit of Apollo event commemorating the 50th anniversary of Apollo 8, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018 in Washington, DC. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/spirit_of_apollo_washington_national_cathedral_for_50th_anniversary_of_apollo_8_0.jpg
NASA astronauts Anne McClain (background) and Serena Auñón-Chancellor are pictured inside the U.S. Destiny laboratory module aboard the International Space Station. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss057e114340_0.jpg