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Gravity Assist: Gardens at the Bottom of the Sea, with Laurie Barge (NASA)Aug. 7, 2020
This image shows ultraviolet “nightglow” in the Martian atmosphere. Green and white false colors represent the intensity of ultraviolet light, with white being the brightest. The nightglow was measured by NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft.
NASA's MAVEN Observes Martian Night Sky Pulsing in Ultraviolet LightAug. 6, 2020
Hubble as seen from Discovery during its second servicing mission.
Hubble Uses Moon as 'Mirror' to Study Earth's Atmosphere (NASA Goddard)Aug. 6, 2020
Image of a carbon star known as CW Leonis or IRC+10216 taken by the Herschel Space Observatory.
Pulsing Stars Distribute Key Ingredient for LifeAug. 5, 2020
The moon Io orbits Jupiter in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Jupiter and Io appear deceptively close in this image, when in fact the moon is orbiting 217,000 miles from the gas giant planet.
NASA's Webb Telescope Will Study Jupiter, Its Rings, and Two Intriguing MoonsAug. 3, 2020
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover onboard launches from Space Launch Complex 41, Thursday, July 30, 2020, at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
NASA, ULA Launch Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Mission to Red PlanetJuly 31, 2020
Gravity Assist with NASA’s Chief Scientist Jim Green
Perseverance Rover: How We Protect Mars From Earthly GermsJuly 24, 2020
The north pole of Ganymede can be seen in center of this annotated image taken by the JIRAM infrared imager aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft on Dec. 26, 2019. The thick line is 0-degrees longitude.
NASA Juno Takes First Images of Jovian Moon Ganymede's North PoleJuly 23, 2020
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Virtual AbGradEJuly 21, 2020
Solar Orbiter spots ‘campfires’ on the Sun. Locations of campfires are annotated with white arrows.
Our Sun, as Never Seen BeforeJuly 20, 2020
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope in the clean room at Northrop Grumman, Redondo Beach, California, in July 2020.
NASA Announces New James Webb Space Telescope Target Launch DateJuly 17, 2020
Illustration of NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars.
Mars 2020: Be our Virtual GuestJuly 14, 2020
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