A NASA Black Brant IX sounding rocket soars skyward into an aurora over Alaska following a 5:13 a.m. EST, Feb. 22, 2017 launch from the Poker Flat Research Range in Alaska. The rocket carried an Ionospheric Structuring: In Situ and Groundbased Low Altitude StudieS (ISINGLASS) instrumented payload examining the structure of an aurora. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/zap10018.jpg
On Feb. 22, engineers successfully installed ESA’s European Service Module Propulsion Qualification Module (PQM) at NASA’s White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico that was delivered by Airbus – ESA’s prime contractor for the Service Module. The module will be equipped with a total of 21 engines to support NASA’s Orion spacecraft. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/p1010141.jpg
These images of the sun were captured at the same time on January 29, 2017 by the six channels on the Solar Ultraviolet Imager or SUVI instrument aboard NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite. Data from SUVI will provide an estimation of coronal plasma temperatures and emission measurements which are important to space weather forecasting. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/suvi_horz2.png
Frequent cloud cover in the southern Atlantic Ocean often obscures satellite images of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. But occasionally the clouds give way. On September 14, 2016, the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 captured natural-color images of South Georgia Island, where several glaciers are in retreat. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/neumayer_oli_2016258_lrg.jpg
The left side of this 360-degree panorama from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the long rows of ripples on a linear shaped dune in the Bagnold Dune Field on the northwestern flank of Mount Sharp. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia21268_sol1601_ncam_cyl_360.jpg
In this March 29, 1929 photograph, Pearl I. Young is working in the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory's Flight Instrumentation Facility (Building 1202). Young was the first woman hired as a technical employee, a physicist at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and the second female physicist working for the federal government. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/l-03247.jpg
UGC 12591's classification straddles somewhere between a lenticular and a spiral galaxy. It lies just under 400 million light-years from us in the Pisces–Perseus Supercluster. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/potw1709a.jpg
In the Space Station Processing Facility high bay at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Orbital ATK CYGNUS pressurized cargo module is secured the KAMAG transporter and the crane has been removed. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/33133284096_7e0bb60323_o_0.jpg
Viscous, lobate flow features are commonly found at the bases of slopes in the mid-latitudes of Mars, and are often associated with gullies. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia21554.jpg
January 1959. Women Scientists Lucille Coltrane, Jean Clark Keating, Katherine Cullie Speegle, Doris 'Dot' Lee, Ruth Whitman, and Emily Stephens Mueller. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/l-1959-l-00007.jpg
Engineers Successfully Test the Parachutes for NASA's Orion Spacecraft at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/33204101741_4feb9a2c38_o.jpg
Engineers Successfully Test the Parachutes for NASA's Orion Spacecraft at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/33204101741_4feb9a2c38_o.jpg
The super star cluster Westerlund 1, only 15,000 light-years away in our Milky Way neighborhood, hosts one of the largest stars ever discovered. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/potw1710a.jpg
Mimas' gigantic crater Herschel lies near the moon's limb in this Cassini view. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia20523-1041.jpg
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite captured this natural-color image of cloud streets over the Barents Sea and Mezhdusharsky Island on March 7, 2017. Such formations occur frequently in the region in late winter. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/barentssea_amo_2017066_lg.jpg
Annie Easley at NASA Glenn Research Center. In 1955, Easley began her career at NASA, then the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), as a human computer performing complex mathematical calculations. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/grc-1981-c-03692.jpg
Annie Easley at NASA Glenn Research Center. In 1955, Easley began her career at NASA, then the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), as a human computer performing complex mathematical calculations. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/grc-1981-c-03692.jpg
This view, acquired on Nov. 7, 2016, by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8, shows a portion of Canada's Mackenzie River Delta and the town of Inuvik, home to more than 3,000 people. A frozen highway -- 194 kilometers (120 miles) long -- runs between the remote outposts of Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk along the river’s East Channel. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/mackenzie_oli_2016312_lrg.jpg
On April 15, 2002, STS-110 Mission Specialist Ellen Ochoa works at the Remote Manipulator System controls on the aft flight deck of space shuttle Atlantis. Dr. Ochoa, a veteran astronaut, is currently the 11th director of Johnson Space Center. She became the first Hispanic woman to go to space when she served on the STS-56 mission. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/29623539086_d48a0b301f_o.jpg
Hubble spots two interacting galaxies some 60 million light-years away in the constellation of Leo. http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/potw1712a.jpg