NASA released the first color image snapped by the Mars Ingenuity Helicopter. It's also the first color photo of Mars taken from a flying vehicle. Cool!
The Sun is a powerful star. As the center of our solar system, it’s hard to ignore the massive ball of energy responsible for delivering light and heat to our planet. To showcase thetrue power of the Sun, though, NASA recently shared a new solar flare image that captures a flare see...
for the Sun-as-a-star by the Solar Mesosphere Observer (SME), and with spatial resolution by the SMM-UVSP (with help from Dick Shine at Lockheed), in comparison with magnetogram data (recovered from the NSO archive with the help of Stuart Ferguson and Jack...
Mars is much colder than Earth, in large part due to its greater distance from the sun. Theaverage temperatureis about minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 60 degrees Celsius), although it can vary from minus 195 F (minus 125 C) near the poles during the winter to as much as 70 F (20...
Here’s a beautiful photo of the Earth and Moon in a single frame, captured back on October 3, 2007 by the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Our planet was about 88 million miles away from the camera. The photo isn’t an accurate representation of the distance between...
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Mars, annotated.Credit: NASA/esa/stsci Mars, Earth and the sun will be in alignment on May 22 when Mars reaches opposition with the sun, lining up directly across from the star from Earth's perspective. During opposition, Mars will look larger in the sky than it usually does, providing ...
January 22-25, 2025: The morning moon passes the Scorpion before sunrise in the south-southeastern sky. 2025, January 22: Mars-Pollux Conjunction January 22, 2025: Mars passes Pollux after sundown, a Mars-Pollux conjunction. This is the second of three conjunctions during this Martian appearanc...
The moon will make a close approach to Mars on Friday, Aug. 18, remaining together throughout the day and after sunset. The two celestial bodies will bask in the light from the setting sun as they also dip below the horizon together. From New York City, the pairing will be visible shor...
NASA solar probe swings by for Venus photo-op The Parker Solar Probe, which studies the sun, caught rare images of Venus' nightside during a brief encounter in February 2021. Credit: NASA / APL / NRL The Parker Solar Probe, which studies the sun, caught rare images of Venus' nightside...