Archivo de la etiqueta: Astronomy photo

On June 21, 1975, NASA successfully launched the eighth Orbiting Solar Observatory aboard a Delta rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. This satellite was the final in a series of spacecraft specifically designed to look at the Sun in high-energy wavelength bands.

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.