Science Source Feb 2010

On Oct. 4, 1957, Sputnik 1 successfully launched and entered Earth's orbit. Thus, began the space age. The successful launch shocked the world, giving...

In late February 2008, the Wilkens ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula disintegrated into a floating pile of massive ice bergs, smaller ice fragments...

Ice shelves are thick slabs of ice that are attached to coastlines and extend out over the ocean. In the natural course of events, ice shelves often c...

Ice shelves are thick slabs of ice that are attached to coastlines and extend out over the ocean. In the natural course of events, ice shelves often c...

Kilauea is the youngest volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii and the most active volcano on Earth. The newest eruption of Kilauea began in January 1983...

This total lunar eclipse occured on February 20, 2008. The eclipsed Moon is seen below the Sickle in Leo, near Saturn and Regulus. The eclipsed Moon i...

This total lunar eclipse occured on February 20, 2008. The eclipsed Moon is seen below the Sickle in Leo, near Saturn and Regulus.

This animation depicts the universe being unzipped.

This animation depicts the Earth, with the Sun behind the Moon, which hovers over the Earth.

This animation depicts the solar system, without Pluto.

This animation depicts the solar system, without Pluto.

This animation depicts the Moon and Earth

This animation depicts Jupiter and one of her moons.

This animation depicts Earth being hit by a meteor.

This animation depicts the Earth from space.

The animation depicts Earth with a high energy atmosphere.

Waxing Crescent Moon, 2 days before the first Quarter. Taken in Storrs, Connecticut. September.

HiRISE images shows part of an unnamed crater, itself located inside the much larger Newton Crater, in Terra Sirenum. This unnamed crater is approxima...

This HiRISE image shows two southern hemisphere craters. These craters are about the same size, approximately 800 - 900 meters in diameter, and appear...

On July 12, 2007, Super Typhoon Man-Yi was a huge spiral of clouds, intense winds, and powerful thunderstorms as it arced northward over the western P...

Hurricane Cosme was the third named storm in the 2007 eastern Pacific hurricane season. Cosme formed in a common area for hurricanes to start off the...

On July 11, 2007, Typhoon Man-Yi, the fourth storm of the Pacific cyclone season, was churning across the western Pacific, gathering strength as it tr...

Malaspina Glacier in southeastern Alaska is considered the classic example of a piedmont glacier. Piedmont glaciers occur where valley glaciers exit a...

Rabe Crater lies among hundreds of thousands of other impact craters in the rough-hewn southern highlands of Mars. Spanning 108 kilometers (67 miles),...

This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft shows the checkerboard region of Noctis Labyrinthus, the Labyrinth of Night, west of the immense equato...

While anchored to a foot restraint on the end of the Orbiter Boom Sensor System, astronaut Scott Parazynski assesses his repair work as the solar arra...

Jupiter and its volcanic moon Io. This montage of images of Jupiter and its volcanic moon Io, was taken by the New Horizons spacecraft's flyby in earl...

A promontory nicknamed Cape Verde can be seen jutting out from the walls of Victoria Crater in this false-color image taken by the panoramic camera on...

A flock of birds took flight shortly after the Space Shuttle Atlantis arrived at Pad 39B after being rolled out from the Vehicle Assembly Building for...

M51, whose name comes from being the 51st entry in Charles Messier's catalog, is considered to be a classic example of a spiral galaxy. At a distance...

The dust sculptures of the Eagle Nebula are evaporating. As powerful starlight whittles away these cool cosmic mountains, the statuesque pillars that...

This is a composite of four images combined to show the illuminated crescent of Earth and the cities of the northern hemisphere. The images were acqui...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will use the Antarctica's frigid, harsh, isolated l...

NASA's next Mars-bound spacecraft, the Phoenix Mars Lander, was partway through assembly and testing at Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, in Sept...

On Greenland, tens of thousands of years of snowfall have settled and solidified into a massive sheet of ice. Each summer, snow retreats briefly at lo...

The Venus Balloon prototype undergoing inflation tests at JPL. Autonomous Aerobots like these are being tested for exploration of Titan and Venus. Fut...

A flash of blue and green lit the waters off Namibia in early November 2007 as a phytoplankton bloom grew and faded in the Atlantic Ocean. The Moderat...

Tropical Cyclone Sidr was continuing its northward progress over the Bay of Bengal on November 14, 2007. It was moving north toward the Mouths of the...

A fish-eye lens on a 35mm camera records astronaut Pamela A. Melroy, STS-112 pilot, at the pilot's station on the forward flight deck of the Space Shu...

This image of the International Space Station was taken as Space Shuttle Discovery approaches the station during rendezvous and docking activities dur...

No sudden, sharp boundary marks the passage of day into night in this gorgeous view of ocean and clouds over our fair planet Earth. Instead, the shado...

Scientists who study dust storms have long known that Saharan dust can travel across the Atlantic to the Americas. Asian dust, however, must travel mu...

Iridescent shades of peacock blue and emerald green decorated the South Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Argentina on December 24, 2007. The Moderate R...

Looking more like an alien landscape than an Earthly landscape, the Morenci open-pit copper mine in southeast Arizona is North America's leading produ...

Named by the Romans after the fleet-footed messenger of the gods, the planet Mercury is closest to the sun. Seen here by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft o...

The drifting smoke plume that resulted from the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis. The twisted plume was captured shortly after launch high above NASA'...

This Chandra X-ray Observatory image shows Westerlund 2, a young star cluster with an estimated age of about one or two million years. Until recently...

STS-103 payload commander Steven L. Smith retrieved a power tool while standing on the mobile foot restraint at the end of the remote manipulator syst...

Isle Royale National Park includes a group of islands and the surrounding waters of Lake Superior. Access to the park is via seaplane or ferry service...

To prepare for the Apollo landings, five Lunar Orbiter spacecraft were launched during 1966 and 1967 to gather detailed images of our fair planet's la...