Image description: NASA’s Cassini spacecraft delivered this view of Saturn while the spacecraft was in the planet’s shadow. Learn more about this view of Saturn.
Image from NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
Image description: Ball Aerospace’s Jake Lewis is reflected in one of the mirrors on a James Webb Space Telescope.
Photo by David Higginbotham and Emmett Given, NASA.
Image description: This new global view of Earth’s city lights is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite. The data was acquired over nine days in April 2012 and 13 days in October 2012. It took 312 orbits to get a clear shot of every parcel of Earth’s land surface and islands. This new data was then mapped over existing Blue Marble imagery of Earth to provide a realistic view of the planet.
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Image from NASA’s Earth Observatory/NOAA/DOD
Did you know that you can see the International Space Station from your house? The space station is easy to find in the sky if you know where and when to look for it.
Sign up for NASA’s Spot the Station service to receive an e-mail or text message a few hours before the space station passes over your house.
Image description: The Cassini spacecraft completed its initial four-year mission to explore the Saturn System in June 2008 and the first extended mission, called the Cassini Equinox Mission, in September 2010. Now, the healthy spacecraft is seeking to make exciting new discoveries in a second extended mission called the Cassini Solstice Mission.
Learn more about the Cassini Solstice Mission in this interactive timeline.
 satellite. The data was acquired over nine days in April 2012 and 13 days in October 2012. It took 312 orbits to get a clear shot of every parcel of Earth’s land surface and islands. This new data was then mapped over existing Blue Marble imagery of Earth to provide a realistic view of the planet.
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Image from NASA’s Earth Observatory/NOAA/DOD)
