A unique and exciting detail of Hubble’s snapshot appears at mid-northern latitudes as a bright, white, stretched-out storm traveling around the planet at 350 miles per hour. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/stsci-h-p2042a-f-1663x1663.png

Then-NASA Johnson Space Center deputy director Ellen Ochoa poses for a photo with Robonaut 2 (R2) during media day in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility on Aug. 4, 2010. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/ellen_ochoa_with_robonaut2.jpg

Cyclones at the north pole of Jupiter appear as swirls of striking colors in this extreme false color rendering of an image from NASA’s Juno mission. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pj25_26_27_28_poln_avrg_enh_denoise_cropdisc_sharp10.png

This image from 1991 shows Earth's Moon, with its dark basaltic mare, clearly visible in great detail. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/opo9914d.jpg

Pictured is the Soyuz MS-16 crew ship, currently docked to the International Space Station's Poisk module. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss063e094249.jpg

Astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor examines her eye with a Fundoscope aboard the International Space Station with remote support from doctors on the ground. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss056e096896.jpg

When Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, the crew brought devices with them called retroreflectors, which are essentially small arrays of mirrors. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/apollo-astronaut-1041.jpg

Our Aqua satellite captured this composite visible and infrared image on Sep. 29, 2020, which shows that fires and smoke continue to dominate the landscape of the western U.S. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/calif-0930_0.jpg

This stunning image by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the spiral galaxy NGC 5643 in the constellation of Lupus (the Wolf). NGC 5643 is about 60 million light-years away from Earth. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/potw2039a.jpg

An Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, with the company’s Cygnus spacecraft aboard, launches at 9:16 p.m. EDT, Friday, October 2, 2020, from t NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/50409544708_5465f65f8c_o.jpg

Camila Morales-Navas conducts final preparations on the Electrochemical Ammonia Removal system prior to parabolic flight testing. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/2_camila-morales-navas-electrochemical-ammonia-removal-system.jpg

The tip of the Canadarm2 robotic arm, also formally known as the Latching End Effector, is pictured as the International Space Station soared over the South Pacific Ocean . http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss063e098775.jpg

ASA spacewalkers (from left) Bob Behnken and Chris Cassidy give a thumbs up during a spacewalk to install hardware and upgrade International Space Station systems. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss063e053998.jpg

The beautiful, blushing Iris Nebula is unique amongst its counterparts. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/c4.jpg

​Powerful gushers of energy from seething stars can sculpt eerie-looking figures with long flowing veils of gas and dust. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/download.jpeg

NASA astronaut Kate Rubins is seen as she has her Russian Sokol suit pressure checked as she and fellow crewmates prepare for their Soyuz launch to the International Space Station. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/50477890088_1578f67d72_o.jpg

Scientists have come to realize that, just below the surface, about one third of Mars is covered in ice. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia24147.jpg

This Hubble image shows a special class of star-forming nursery known as Free-floating Evaporating Gaseous Globules. Called frEGGs for short, these dark compact globules of dust and gas can give birth to low-mass stars. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/potw2041a.jpg

Two of Orion’s four recently installed solar array wings are exposed and surrounded by the panels that will protect it during launch and ascent. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/p1010816.jpg

This illustration shows the hot, dense, expanding cloud of debris stripped from neutron stars just before they collided. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/neutron_star_merger_still_3.png