NASA Image of the Day

Space Station Star Trail (Mi, 22 Mär 2023)
Stars leave streaks of light in concentric circles in this Mar 16, 2012, view from the International Space Station.
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Louisiana’s Rice Fields (Tue, 21 Mar 2023)
This Feb 3, 2023, enhanced-color image from Landsat 9 highlights a green and blue patchwork pattern in flooded rice fields in southwestern Louisiana.
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Galactic Giants Titan and Saturn (Mon, 20 Mar 2023)
Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, looks quite small in comparison to the giant planet behind it in this natural color view from the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft.
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Venus' Volcano (Fri, 17 Mar 2023)
Maat Mons, a volcano on Venus that has shown signs of a recent eruption, is in the black square near the planet’s equator in this annotated, computer-simulated global map of Venus’ surface.
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Sunrise Over the Pacific (Thu, 16 Mar 2023)
An orbital sunrise reveals cloud tops above the Pacific Ocean northeast of New Zealand as the International Space Station orbited 260 miles above on Feb. 10, 2023.
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Diana Trujillo Sparks Students' Curiosity (Wed, 15 Mar 2023)
Elementary school students eagerly raise their hands as Diana Trujillo, technical group supervisor for sequence planning and execution and tactical mission lead for the Mars Perseverance rover, speaks to them on March 13, 2023.
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Crew-5’s Nighttime Splashdown (Mon, 13 Mar 2023)
The SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft is seen as it lands with Crew-5 mission members aboard on Saturday, March 11, 2023.
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Hubble Spots a Star-Forming Spiral (Fri, 10 Mar 2023)
The irregular spiral galaxy NGC 5486 hangs against a background of dim, distant galaxies in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
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A Sliver of the Sun (Thu, 09 Mar 2023)
The Moon is seen passing in front of the Sun during a solar eclipse from Ross Lake, Northern Cascades National Park, Washington on Aug. 21, 2017.
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Eileen Collins, Discovery Pilot (Wed, 08 Mar 2023)
Former astronaut Eileen Collins sits at the pilot’s station aboard space shuttle Discovery during a hotfiring procedure on Feb. 2, 1995.
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Dumbbell Nebula Pumps Out Light Show (Tue, 07 Mar 2023)
Infrared light surges out from the Dumbbell Nebula, also known as Messier 27, in this Aug. 10, 2011, image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
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Deputy Associate Administrator for STEM Engagement Kris Brown (Mon, 06 Mar 2023)
"…Yes, you must be good at math and do the academic work to prepare you to do the kind of work we do. But in the end, it really comes down to unleashing this creativity and bringing minds together to achieve something that hasn’t been done before." — Kris Brown, Deputy Associate Administrator for STEM Engagement, NASA Headquarters
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Pre-Dawn Launch for Crew-6 (Thu, 02 Mar 2023)
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carries the company's Dragon spacecraft with NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission members aboard in this five-minute long exposure taken on Thursday, March 2, 2023.
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Cyclone Freddy is Pictured from the Space Station (Thu, 02 Mar 2023)
Cyclone Freddy is pictured northeast of the island nation of Mauritius from the International Space Station as it orbited 267 miles above the Indian Ocean on Feb. 20, 2023.
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Venus, Jupiter, Moon Shine from Space Station (Wed, 01 Mar 2023)
Former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly snapped this photo of the Earth’s crescent, the Moon, Venus, and Jupiter (from top to bottom) on Aug. 6, 2015, while he was aboard the International Space Station.
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John Glenn Goes Into Orbit (Thu, 23 Feb 2023)
Astronaut John Glenn enters the Mercury spacecraft, Friendship 7, prior to the launch of Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) on Feb. 20, 1962.
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A Blue Farewell (Wed, 22 Feb 2023)
A blue halo glows around Pluto’s receding crescent in this parting image taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on July 14, 2015.
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Social Media Lead Courtney Lee (Tue, 21 Feb 2023)
“I wanted to create a game because right now, a lot of what we [at NASA] make is geared toward people who already know science...But there are huge audiences out there who, like me, didn't realize that they could love or be intrigued with NASA because it was never where they were." – Courtney Lee, Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Social Media Lead
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NASA Celebrates National Engineers Week: Perspectives from Jamesa Stokes (Tue, 21 Feb 2023)
As NASA celebrates National Engineers Week, NASA Glenn gets perspectives from materials research engineer Jamesa Stokes.
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Let’s Roll, Crew-6! (Fri, 17 Feb 2023)
Mission Specialist Andrey Fedyaev, Pilot Warren "Woody" Hoburg, Commander Stephen Bowen, and Mission Specialist Sultan Alnedayi, the SpaceX Crew-6 mission, pose for a photo atop an emergency egress vehicle at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Practicing Our Moonwalk (Wed, 15 Feb 2023)
Two Joint Extravehicular Activity Test Team Field Test #3 (JETT3) mission members work on sample collection on the remote, rocky, high-desert terrain of the S P Crater near Flagstaff, Arizona on Oct. 5, 2022.
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The Himalayan Peaks (Mon, 13 Feb 2023)
The Himalayan peaks are pictured in this oblique photograph from the International Space Station.
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Space Station Visits South Padre Island (Mon, 13 Feb 2023)
While the International Space Station orbited over the Gulf of Mexico on Sept. 19, 2022, NASA astronaut Bob Hines captured this image of South Padre Island, a barrier island along the coast of Texas.
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Bringing More Power to Space Station (Wed, 08 Feb 2023)
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata is pictured in his Extravehicular Mobility Unit, or spacesuit, during his second spacewalk on Feb. 2, 2023.
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NASA’s Modern History Makers: Jarred Wilhite (Wed, 08 Feb 2023)
Jarred Wilhite is a NASA Glenn aerospace engineer who has been instrumental to Artemis and the X-57 Maxwell all-electric aircraft.
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A Visit to NISAR (Mon, 06 Feb 2023)
Officials from NASA, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), and the Indian Embassy visit a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Feb. 3, 2023, to view the scientific instrument payload for the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission.
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Spiral Galaxy Spans Space (Fri, 03 Feb 2023)
This Jan. 10, 2013, composite image of the giant barred spiral galaxy NGC 6872 combines visible light images from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope with far-ultraviolet data from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) and infrared data acquired by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
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Hubble’s New View of the Tarantula Nebula (Fri, 03 Feb 2023)
A snapshot of the Tarantula Nebula (also known as 30 Doradus) is featured in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
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Astronauts' View of the Moon (Thu, 02 Feb 2023)
The waxing gibbous Moon stands out in this Jan. 2, 2023, image from the International Space Station as it orbited 269 miles above the southern Indian Ocean.
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Flora, Fauna at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (Tue, 31 Jan 2023)
In this photo from Oct. 14, 2008, a great blue heron stands watch among a pond of water lilies on NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
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Senior Communications Manager Dewayne Washington (Mon, 30 Jan 2023)
"If you tell an artist what to paint, they will paint it. But, if you tell them what you’re looking for, they’ll paint that – and there’s a difference. People appreciate that, the openness to be able to create." – Dewayne Washington, Mars Sample Return Senior Communications Manager, NASA Headquarters
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Volcanic Plumes in Chile (Mon, 30 Jan 2023)
Chile’s Villarrica volcano emits steam and other volcanic gases in this photo taken from the International Space Station on Jan. 17, 2023. The gases come from a series of minor explosions—called Strombolian eruptions—that have been ongoing at Villarrica since October 2022.
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Hubble Views a Stellar Duo in Orion Nebula (Fri, 27 Jan 2023)
The bright variable star V 372 Orionis takes center stage in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
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Day of Remembrance (Thu, 26 Jan 2023)
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson lays a wreath at the Space Shuttle Challenger Memorial.
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President Reagan Calls for Space Station (Wed, 25 Jan 2023)
On January 25, 1984, President Ronald Reagan used his State of the Union address to call for NASA to build a permanent manned space station.
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