The Perseid meteors are an annual event many skywatchers look forward to, as they often produce lots of shooting stars to enjoy. via NASA https://ift.tt/e6GYspm
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Aquanaut Gets to Work Underwater
A team of roboticists from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston have applied their expertise in making robots for deep space to designing a fully electric shape-changing submersible robot that will cut costs for maritime industries. via NASA https://ift.tt/S0vpfgd
Hubble Peers at Celestial Cloudscape
This celestial cloudscape from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures the colorful region in the Orion Nebula surrounding the Herbig-Haro object HH 505. via NASA http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2022/hubble-peers-at-celestial-cloudscape
Artemis I Moonikin Campos Inspection and Install
Artemis I Moonikin Campos Inspection and Install via NASA https://ift.tt/6wxp0Hr
NASA’s B377SGT Super Guppy Turbine Cargo Airplane lands at Moffett Field at NASA Ames
In this picture from 2016, our Super Guppy, a specialized aircraft with a unique hinged nose, lands at Moffett Field at NASA Ames. via NASA https://ift.tt/KwBrxJO
Moon Mosaic
This Moon-mosaic is comprised of 1,231 images taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’s (LRO) Narrow-Angle Camera (NAC) in the summer of 2018. via NASA https://ift.tt/nihUZY0
Curiosity’s Dusty Selfie
Since August 2012, Curiosity has been exploring 3-mile-high Mt. Sharp in Gale Crater. The rover has climbed more than 2,000 feet (612 meters), reaching progressively younger rocks that serve as a record on how Mars has evolved from a wet, habitable planet to a cold desert environment. via NASA https://ift.tt/Oxc1ist
Ice Stars
Like distant galaxies amid clouds of interstellar dust, chunks of sea ice drift through graceful swirls of grease ice in the frigid waters of Foxe Basin near Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic. via NASA https://ift.tt/kuKH6oO
Wildflowers in Bloom at Kennedy Space Center
With wildflowers surrounding the view, NASA’s Space Launch System Moon rocket – carried atop the crawler-transporter 2 – arrives at Launch Pad 39B at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 6, 2022. via NASA https://ift.tt/W8bPwTy
Webb Captures Stellar Gymnastics in The Cartwheel Galaxy
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