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ALT Image of asteroid Donaldjohanson moving across the sky from Feb. 20 to April 5, 2025. The image was created from a series of stacked optical navigation images taken by the L'LORRI instrument on NASA's Lucy spacecraft. The sky is black with bright white dots of varying sizes scattered across. Asteroid Donaldjohanson appears in a slightly diagonal line going through the center of the image.
ALT This image, taken by ESA’s Rosetta navigation camera, was taken from a about 53 miles from the center of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on March 14, 2015. The image resolution is 24 feet per pixel and is cropped and processed to bring out the details of the comet's activity. The comet appears bright with a surface that resembles the moon, with craters all around.
ALT This view of Jupiter's icy moon Europa was captured by JunoCam, the public engagement camera aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft, during the mission's close flyby on Sept. 29, 2022. The picture is a composite of JunoCam's second, third, and fourth images taken during the flyby, as seen from the perspective of the fourth image. North is to the left. The images have a resolution of just over 0.5 to 2.5 miles per pixel (1 to 4 kilometers per pixel). As with our Moon and Earth, one side of Europa always faces Jupiter, and that is the side of Europa visible here. Europa's surface is crisscrossed by fractures, ridges, and bands, which have erased terrain older than about 90 million years. Citizen scientist Kevin M. Gill processed the images to enhance the color and contrast. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Image processing: Kevin M. Gill CC BY 3.0
ALT Two individuals sit at a table with nameplates; one labeled "Director" on the left. Both are signing documents. The backdrop displays "The European Space Agency" logo and an image of Earth from space. The setting appears formal, indicating an official agreement or event.
ALT Two individuals standing and smiling holding documents. The backdrop displays "The European Space Agency" logo and an image of Earth from space. The setting appears formal, indicating an official agreement or event.
ALT Two individuals standing, smiling, and hugging. The backdrop displays "The European Space Agency" logo and an image of Earth from space. The setting appears formal, indicating an official agreement or event.
ALT Artistic representation of a total solar eclipse. Graphic of a Moon over a yellow-artistic solar corona, that looks like a sunflower with rays coming out. Text reads "The Moon's Moment in the Sun. 2024 Total Solar Eclipse."
ALT A small lunar capsule perches on four slender legs on the surface of the Moon. The capsule is round and shiny gold with a silver framework and legs, with silver bar frames attached horizontally to the sides. The Moon's surface is dark gray and rocky, with cliffs rising near the horizon and Earth visible in the black sky.
ALT Two asteroids against black space. The larger is a diamond-shaped gray dusty rock lit from the right. The smaller, mostly spherical rock is visible behind the larger’s lower right edge. This image was taken at 11:55 EDT (16:55 UTC) Nov 1, 2023, within a minute of closest approach, from a range of approximately 270 miles (430 km). From this perspective, the satellite is behind the primary asteroid. The image has been sharpened and processed to enhance contrast. Credit: NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL
ALT Image of the lunar south pole created using Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) data from the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) instrument which measures landing site slopes, lunar surface roughness, and has begun generation of a high-resolution 3D map of the Moon. Credits: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
ALT Stylized illustration of silhouettes of people looking up at a large Moon in the night sky, with the text "International Observe the Moon Night October 21, 2023". In the sky, this text is translated into several languages.
