Astronaut Nicole Mann Trains in T-38
Astronaut Nicole Mann sits inside a T-38 trainer jet at Ellington Field in Houston, Texas in this image from Nov. 15, 2018.
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Staring Into the Hurricane’s Eye
Staring Into the Hurricane’s Eye
On September 28, the Landsat 8 satellite passed directly over Ian’s eye as the storm approached southwest Florida. The natural-color image above was acquired by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) at 11:57 a.m. local time (15:57 Universal Time), three hours before the storm made landfall in Caya Costa.
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DART’s Penultimate View
DART’s Penultimate View
This is the last complete image of the asteroid Dimorphos, as seen by our Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) 2 seconds before impact.
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Neptune Shows Off Its Rings in Near-Infrared Light
Neptune Shows Off Its Rings in Near-Infrared Light
On Sept. 21, 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope delivered the clearest view of Neptune’s rings in more than 30 years.
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Ellen Ochoa Suits Up
Ellen Ochoa Suits Up
Astronaut Ellen Ochoa, STS-110 flight engineer, wears a launch and entry suit as part of water survival training in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory in 2001.
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