First Photo on the Moon
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Pyrocumulonimbus
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On August 8, 2019, a team of atmospheric scientists got an exceedingly rare look at these clouds as they were forming. NASA’s DC-8 flying laboratory passed directly through a large […]
Reflection Nebula NGC 1999
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Cloudy Sulawesi, Indonesia
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The International Space Station was crossing over the equator when an astronaut looked east and took this photograph just after sunrise. The strip of land outlined by morning sunglint is the northern […]
Rocket launch
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Valles Marineris, Mars
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Mosaic of the Valles Marineris hemisphere of Mars projected into point perspective, a view similar to that which one would see from a spacecraft. The distance is 2500 kilometers from […]
Washington Monument
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Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia
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Jupiter vortex
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Supersonic Shockwave
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Using the schlieren photography technique, NASA was able to capture the first air-to-air images of the interaction of shockwaves from two supersonic aircraft flying in formation. These two U.S. Air […]