Archivo de la etiqueta: Astronomy photo

Sand dunes often accumulate in the floors of craters. In this region of Lyot Crater, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows a field of classic barchan dunes on Jan. 24, 2018.

The Moon begins to rise behind the ARADS rover during the 2017 season of field tests in Chile’s Atacama Desert.

«Space was our office yesterday. #EVA51,» said International Space Station astronaut Ricky Arnold on Friday.

This HiRISE image from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captures a new, dated (within about a decade) impact crater that triggered a slope streak.

When NASA engineers were looking for a place to build a network of large radio antennas in the 1950s, they knew they needed somewhere quiet.