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The vapor plume is seen as a pixelated cloud of blue light emanating from the moon. An inset shows Enceladus in close-up.
Webb Maps Surprisingly Large Plume Jetting From Saturn’s Moon Enceladus (NASA Goddard)May 30, 2023
The NASA insignia is one of the agency's best-known symbols.
NASA Request for Information on Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved CommunitiesMay 25, 2023
Jason leans on a counter in a lab full of equipment. He is wearing a long-sleeved dark blue button-up shirt. He has dark hair, a short beard, and glasses. Smiling broadly, he holds a palm-sized meteorite fragment up for the camera in his right hand.
Bennu and Some of the Biggest Science Questions of Our Generation (NASA)May 24, 2023
This view of Jovian moon Europa was created by processing an image JunoCam captured during Juno’s close flyby on Sept. 29, 2022.
Destination: EuropaMay 24, 2023
NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) is now named the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, after NASA’s first Chief of Astronomy.
NASA Extends Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Science Operations (NASA)May 22, 2023
A volcanically active planet is shown in closeup at the left side of the image with glowing eruptions and lines of lava on the surface. To the right and in the distance is a faint blue glowing ball representing the more massive planet in the system.
NASA’s Spitzer, TESS Find Potentially Volcano-Covered Earth-Size World (NASA Goddard)May 18, 2023
The comet appears as a glowing blue dot toward the upper left of the frame. A ghostly cloud of blue streaks toward the bottom right.
NASA’s Webb Finds Water, and a New Mystery, in Rare Main Belt Comet (NASA Goddard)May 16, 2023
Io sits in the center of the image on a black, starless background. The moon is yellow and orange with some surface features visible with the right half of the moon shrouded in darkness.
NASA’s Juno Mission Getting Closer to Jupiter’s Moon Io (NASA JPL)May 16, 2023
Artist creation of a planet. The dust planet is shades of grey and brown with some red and blue highlights. It is featureless and appears as a globe of cloudy dust.
NASA’s Webb Takes Closest Look Yet at Mysterious Planet (NASA JPL)May 11, 2023
Image shows ovular rings of bright orange dust on a black background. The center of the dusty rings is blacked out to hide the light of the star.
Webb Looks for Fomalhaut’s Asteroid Belt and Finds Much More (NASA Goddard)May 10, 2023
Jack with a Mars Planetary Protection document.
In Memoriam: Jack Dwayne FarmerMay 6, 2023
The NASA insignia is one of the agency's best-known symbols.
Astrobiology Mission Ideation Factory: The Search for Life on MarsMay 5, 2023
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