This image captures swirling cloud belts and tumultuous vortices within Jupiter’s northern hemisphere. via NASA https://ift.tt/2yASshS

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. via NASA https://ift.tt/2tseeyr

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. via NASA https://ift.tt/2M9bzkO

The Moon begins to rise behind the ARADS rover during the 2017 season of field tests in Chile’s Atacama Desert. via NASA https://ift.tt/2tmlFat

“Space was our office yesterday. #EVA51,” said International Space Station astronaut Ricky Arnold on Friday. via NASA https://ift.tt/2M0SZv7

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. via NASA https://ift.tt/2JOOk2f

When NASA engineers were looking for a place to build a network of large radio antennas in the 1950s, they knew they needed somewhere quiet. via NASA https://ift.tt/2JCG1qW

Science operations for NASA’s Opportunity rover have been temporarily suspended as it waits out a dust storm on Mars. This series of images shows simulated views of a darkening Martian sky blotting out the Sun from NASA’s Opportunity rover’s point of view,. via NASA https://ift.tt/2JVsVo9

To address the expected noise levels of future aircraft, NASA’s Commercial Supersonic Technology project is already developing technologies focused on reducing the noise produced by an aircraft’s engine exhaust. via NASA https://ift.tt/2sQ9PG6

Operation IceBridge missions over Alaska reveal some majestic icescapes, like this image of the Wrangell Mountains in eastern Alaska. via NASA https://ift.tt/2Mcj5MR