See the ‘Dark Side’ of the Moon Illuminated From a Million Miles Away
NASA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) has captured a view of the moon that is impossible to see from Earth.
NASA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) has captured a view of the moon that is impossible to see from Earth.
In this parting image, the New Horizons spacecraft captured a darkened Pluto backlit by the sun—illuminating the hydrocarbon haze circling the dwarf planet for the first time.
Photo: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
New Horizons found a second mountain range in Pluto’s ‘heart’
Photo: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
From the famed Apollo 17 image to DSCOVR’s most recent addition, see the history of the world’s biggest selfie.
NASA released the first image of Earth from its Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite on Monday. The image shows a sunlit Earth from one million miles away.
Photo: NASA
At 100 million years old, the mountains are “mere youngsters” compared to the age of our solar system.
Our gif shows the evolution of Pluto’s images from a barely perceptible gray blob to a closeup showing a heart-shaped area on Pluto’s surface
Images: NASA/APL/SwRI; Animation: Jonathan D. Woods
After nine-and-a-half years, 3 billion miles and heart-stopping drops in communication, the moment has arrived: New Horizons, NASA’s spacecraft designed to explore the furthest reaches of our solar system, passed Pluto at 8:15 a.m. EST on Tuesday.
Photo: NASA
For 50 years, the U.S. has been sending probes into deep space. Check out the breathtaking photos that have come as a result.
(Photo: NASA / JPL-Caltech / K. Su (Univ. of Arizona)