On June 7, 2021, NASA’s Juno spacecraft flew closer to Jupiter’s ice-encrusted moon Ganymede than any spacecraft in more than two decades. Less than a day later, Juno made its 34th flyby of Jupiter. This animation provides a “starship captain” point of view of each flyby. For both worlds, JunoCam images were orthographically projected onto …
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A self-portrait of NASA’s Curiosity rover taken on June 15, 2018, during the 2,082nd Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity’s work on Mars. A Martian dust storm has reduced sunlight and visibility at the rover’s location in Gale Crater. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Today, Mars is a planet of extremes – it’s bitterly cold, has high …
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Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z stereo imaging system to capture this 360-degree panorama at “Van Zyl Overlook”, where the rover was parked for 13 days as the Ingenuity helicopter performed its first flights. The 4.5-billion-pixel panorama is made up of 1004 individual Mastcam-Z images stitched together. The images were taken between …
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Submitted By : Bjorn_Jonsson Mission Phase : PERIJOVE 34 An approximately true color/contrast mosaic of Ganymede images pj34_01 and pj34_02. The viewing geometry for image pj34_02 was used for the mosaic. The color is mainly based on Ganymede’s global visible light spectrum but it is somewhat subjective and approximate. Since an accurately reconstructed trajectory for …
Perseverance’s Mastcam-Z imaging system captured this 360-degree panorama at “Van Zyl Overlook,” where the rover parked during Ingenuity helicopter’s first flights. The 2.4-billion-pixel panorama consists of 992 images stitched together. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS This image looking west toward the Séítah geologic unit on Mars was taken from the height of 33 feet (10 meters) by NASA’s …
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DAVINCI+ will send a meter-diameter probe to brave the high temperatures and pressures near Venus’ surface to explore the atmosphere from above the clouds to near the surface of a terrain that may have been a past a continent. During its final kilometers of free-fall descent (shown here), the probe will capture spectacular images and …
Venus hides a wealth of information that could help us better understand Earth and exoplanets. NASA’s JPL is designing mission concepts to survive the planet’s extreme temperatures and atmospheric pressure. This image is a composite of data from NASA’s Magellan spacecraft and Pioneer Venus Orbiter. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech DAVINCI+ (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, …
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This is the first photo ever taken on the surface of Mars. It was taken by NASA’s Viking 1 spacecraft just minutes after it landed on the Red Planet on July 20, 1976. Credits: Credits: NASA/JPL A NASA team has found that organic salts are likely present on Mars. Like shards of ancient pottery, these …
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Expedition 65 Flight Engineers (from left) Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency) and Shane Kimbrough of NASA gather and prepack cargo to be returned to Earth on the next SpaceX Cargo Dragon mission targeted for launch on June 3, 2021. Credits: NASA Katherine Brown Headquarters, Washington Sandra Jones Johnson Space Center, Houston Love0 Share …
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NASA astronaut Kate Rubins adjusts research hardware aboard the International Space Station. Her feet are strapped to the floor to give her leverage as she works in the station’s low gravity. The longer she stays in this low gravity, the more her bone density and muscle mass will change. Credits: NASA For every month in …