Archivo de la etiqueta: Astronomy photo

The intertank is the second piece of structural hardware for the massive Space Launch System core stage, built at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans and delivered to Marshall Space Flight Center for testing.

This image was originally meant to track the movement of sand dunes near the North Pole of Mars, but what’s on the ground in between the dunes is just as interesting!

Astronauts Joan Higginbotham (foreground) and Suni Williams refer to a procedures checklist as they work the controls of the Canadarm2, in this 2006 image.

This image captures the swirling cloud formations around the south pole of Jupiter, looking up toward the equatorial region.

A ULA Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying the NOAA Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, or GOES-S. Launch was at 5:02 p.m. EST, March 1, 2018. GOES-S is the second satellite in a series of next-generation weather satellites.