A team of roboticists from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston have applied their expertise in making robots for deep space to designing a fully electric shape-changing submersible robot that will cut costs for maritime industries. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/nauticus_4.jpg
The Perseid meteors are an annual event many skywatchers look forward to, as they often produce lots of shooting stars to enjoy. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/nhq202108100009_orig.jpg
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop the mobile launcher as it is rolled up the ramp at Launch Pad 39B, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52292004124_d0c8bd35c6_o.jpg
Launched in 1977, the twin Voyager probes are NASA’s longest-operating mission and the only spacecraft ever to explore interstellar space. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/p50142.jpg
A paddlewheeler makes its way up the Mississippi River as the moon rises over New Orleans on Sunday evening, Aug. 22, 2021. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/maf_20210822_moonovernola_orig.jpeg
The core of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft has taken center stage in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/1-main-europa-clipper-module.jpg
The supersonic X-1E research aircraft was the last of NASA's experimental X-1 series of aircraft. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/afrc2021-0149-02_orig.jpg
This time lapse of the Milky Way Galaxy taken from the International Space Station (ISS) also captured a lightning strike on Earth so bright that it lights up the space station’s solar panels. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss044e045215.jpg
T-38 planes are a fixture of astronaut training, making pilots and mission specialists think quicky in changing situations. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/jsc2022e066539_alt.jpg
This view of the crescent Earth over the Moon's horizon was taken during the Apollo 15 lunar landing mission. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/5052744416_353f737db7_o.jpg
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop the mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B, Monday, Aug. 29, 2022, as the Artemis I launch teams loaded more than 700,000 gallons of cryogenic propellants including liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52319135048_b2acddc60e_o.jpg
Auroras and hazes glow in this composite image of Jupiter taken by the James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam). http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/52303461859_0db4d9b739_o.png
A little-studied star, TYC 3203-450-1, upstages a galaxy in this Hubble Telescope image from December 2017. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/gsfc_20171208_archive_e000084_orig.jpg
Three impact craters are displayed in this three-dimensional perspective view of the surface of Venus taken NASA's Magellan, the first deep space probe launched by a space shuttle. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/f_craterfarm.jpg
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/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia21747_orig.jpg
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/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss067e302248.jpg
On Sept. 12, 1962, President Kennedy speaks before a crowd of 35,000 people at Rice University in Houston. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/jfk_rice_speech_17_s62-05616.jpg
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/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/iss067e344813_orig.jpg