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NASA Salutes Successful Huygens Probe

Monday, 17 January 2005, 9:36 am | NASA

NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe today offered congratulations to the European Space Agency (ESA) on the successful touchdown of its Huygens probe on Saturn's moon Titan. More >>

NASA Image: First Color View of Titan's Surface

Monday, 17 January 2005, 9:34 am | NASA

This image was returned yesterday, January 14, 2005, by the European Space Agency's Huygens probe during its successful descent to land on Titan. This is the colored view, following processing to add reflection spectra data, and gives a better indication ... More >>

NASA: Slow-Motion Collision Near McMurdo Imminent

Wednesday, 12 January 2005, 10:58 am | NASA

Get Ready for the Largest Demolition Derby on the Planet Scientists say Slow-Motion Collision Near Antarctic Research Station Imminent More >>

NASA Images: Saturn's Rings Up Close From Cassini

Friday, 2 July 2004, 3:38 pm | NASA

This image shows the region of Saturn's rings known as the Cassini Division. It was taken by the narrow angle camera on the Cassini spacecraft after successful entry into Saturn's orbit. The view shows the dark, or unlit, side of the rings. More >>

Images: Cassini Spacecraft at Saturn's Doorstep

Wednesday, 30 June 2004, 2:51 pm | NASA

On June 30 at 7:36 p.m. Pacific Time (10:36 p.m. EDT), Cassini will begin executing a series of commands to enter orbit around the ringed planet. The spacecraft will fire its main engine for a crucial 96 minutes to slow down and be captured in orbit ... More >>

NASA Plans Dual Broadcasts of Spacewalk, Cassini

Wednesday, 30 June 2004, 2:45 pm | NASA

NASA will provide two simultaneous satellite feeds of live news events Wednesday evening: a spacewalk by the International Space Station crew and the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft's arrival at Saturn. More >>

Nasa Image: Cyclone Ivy Over The Hebrides

Saturday, 28 February 2004, 1:49 pm | NASA

Images of Cyclone Ivy taken by the Nasa MODIS Satellite Aqua yesterday. More >>

Nasa Releases Clearest Image From Mars Yet Seen

Thursday, 8 January 2004, 9:30 am | NASA

The people operating NASA's Spirit have received the first color pictures from the rover and a congratulatory call from the president. More >>

Spirit Lands On Mars and Sends Back Postcards

Monday, 5 January 2004, 11:51 pm | NASA

A traveling robotic geologist from NASA has landed on Mars and returned stunning images of the area around its landing site in Gusev Crater. More >>

Scoop Images: California Burning Seen From Space

Tuesday, 28 October 2003, 5:12 pm | NASA

Two images from NASA's Modis satellite of California's out of control wildfires. Click images for bigger versions. More >>

Scoop Image: A God's Eye View Of Te Wai Pounamu

Tuesday, 15 July 2003, 12:30 am | NASA

An image from NASA's MODIS Satellite of New Zealand's South Island after recent snowfalls. More >>

NASA: First of two Robot Mars Rovers Takes Off

Wednesday, 11 June 2003, 8:54 am | NASA

NASA: The first of two Mars Rovers, named Spirit, has taken off to Mars Launched at 1:58 p.m. US-EDT. Spirit will take seven months to reach Mars. The second Rover, named Opportunity, is scheduled to launch on June 25. More >>

Scoop Images: Kuwait And Iraq Satellite Images

Friday, 21 March 2003, 2:16 pm | NASA

Image of Kuwait and Iraq taken today by the NOAA Modis satellite imagery programme. Each image below zooms in closer on the head of the Gulf, and a larger version of each image can be viewed by clicking on the images. Scoop will post follow up images ... More >>

Scoop Images: White America

Monday, 24 February 2003, 11:39 am | NASA

Images from Nasa's Terra MODIS Satellite of the North Eastern United States and South Eastern areas of Canada showing a blanket of snow stretching as far as the satellite can see, from the mid-west and the great lakes to the Atlantic coast. This image ... More >>

Satellite Images: Iraq Bathed In A Winged Cloud

Wednesday, 29 January 2003, 10:46 am | NASA

Image taken by the NASA MODIS satellite Terra 01/28/03 07:50 UTC More >>

Scoop Images: Canberra’s Ring Of Fire From Space

Wednesday, 22 January 2003, 2:44 pm | NASA

In the images below of fires on the East Coast of Australia in Victoria and New South Wales were taken on the 21st UTC. The fire front is roughly 300km long. Canberra can be located roughly at the center of the C shaped fire formation in the center ... More >>

NASA Image: Rodeo Fire Burning In Arizona

Tuesday, 25 June 2002, 10:43 am | NASA

The Rodeo Fire (easternmost cluster of red dots) in east-central Arizona is burning within the Fort Apache Indian Reservation about 100 miles east-northeast of Phoenix (seen southwest of the fire as a large area of grayish pixels surrounded by scattered ... More >>

Newfound Planetary System Has 'Hometown' Look

Friday, 14 June 2002, 10:05 am | NASA

After 15 years of observation and a lot of patience, the world's premier planet-hunting team has finally found a planetary system that reminds them of our own home solar system. More >>

Image: Planets Over Stonehenge

Friday, 10 May 2002, 2:40 pm | NASA

Stonehenge, four thousand year old monument to the Sun, provides an appropriate setting for this delightful snapshot of the Sun's children gathering in planet Earth's sky. More >>

First Four Views Of Universe From Upgraded Hubble

Wednesday, 1 May 2002, 10:40 am | NASA

"Remarkable, breathtaking" are words jubilant astronomers are using to describe the first four views of the universe taken by the Hubble Space Telescope's new Advanced Camera for Surveys, released by NASA today. More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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