NASA's Wallops Flight Facility
176 photos, 1 video
Goddard Visits 2024
44 photos
GUSTO Scientific Balloon Launch
12 photos
GUSTO launched from Antarctica Dec. 31, 2023.
NASA C-130 Delivers GUSTO Payload to Antarctica
9 photos
Wallops' C-130 aircraft delivered the GUSTO payload to McMurdo Station, Antarctica.
OSIRIS-REx
78 photos
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Regolith Explorer), the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid, returned to Earth on...
NG-19 Antares Cargo Resupply Mission
22 photos
Northrop Grumman’s 19th contracted cargo resupply mission with NASA to the International Space Station.
U.S. Marine Band Visits Goddard
4 photos
Keeping PACE: U.S. Marine Band Joins the PACE Team in the Acoustic Testing Chamber
Wallops Hosts USAF Thunderbirds
12 photos
United States Air Force Thunderbirds were stationed at Wallops during the Ocean City Air Show.
Charles Bolden Visits Goddard
10 photos
Former NASA Administrator Charles Bolden visited NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
60th annual Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium
4 photos
60th annual Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium was held March 8-10, 2023.
NASA Goddard Center Director Town Hall January...
8 photos
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center's Acting Center Director David Mitchell hosted a town hall Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023.
NG CRS-18 Antares Mission
24 photos
Cargo Resupply Mission from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility to the International Space Station.
James Webb Space Telescope First Images Unveiling...
18 photos
The James Webb Space Telescope first full-color image unveiling event was hosted at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center July 12, 2022. Photo Credit: NASA Goddard/Taylor Mickal
Aqua 20th Anniversary
17 photos
The Aqua 20th Anniversary held May 4, 2022, at the Goddard Visitor Center.
JPSS and GOES-R Exhibit Ribbon Cutting
5 photos
Dr. John Mather films a TEDTalks
4 photos
Dr. John Mather gives a TEDTalks presentation remotely from the James Webb Studio at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
Goddard Scientific Colloquium, Robert DePalma and...
11 photos
"A Blast from the Past: Geochemical Identity of the Chicxulub Bolide and Immediate Effects of the Impact, recorded at Tanis, North Dakota"
Northrop Grumman's 17th Cargo Resupply Mission to...
14 photos
Northrop Grumman’s 17th contracted cargo resupply mission with NASA to the International Space Station will deliver about 8,300 pounds of science and research, crew supplies and vehicle hardware to...
Vice President Kamala Harris Visits NASA's...
85 photos
Vice President Kamala Harris visited NASA's Goddard Space Flight Facility on Friday, Nov 5, 2021.
Antares NG-16 Launch
35 photos
NASA Commercial Resupply Mission NG-16.
Hubble Returns to Full Science Observations
14 photos
Hubble’s payload computer, which controls and coordinates the observatory’s onboard science instruments, halted suddenly on June 13. When the main computer failed to receive a signal from the...
Share Your Space Crafts with #LandsatCraft
51 photos
It’s time to get space-crafty! We’re getting ready to launch Landsat 9 into space this fall, and NASA wants to know, how does Landsat inspire you?
For nearly 50 years, Landsat satellites have...
Resupply mission to the ISS - Feb. 2021
21 photos, 1 video
The Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, with Cygnus resupply spacecraft aboard, launches from Pad-0A, Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Northrop Grumman's 15th...
Citizen scientist images of STEVE
8 photos
Citizen scientists are vital in STEVE research because by experimenting with different exposures and angles, they can capture revealing images of the phenomenon that scientists do not. These images...
Antares Rocket at NASA Wallops
36 photos, 2 videos
NASA Commercialization Training Camp
29 photos
In collaboration with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas hosted the second NASA Commercialization Training Camp on Feb. 12-14 in partnership with...
2020 State of NASA - NASA Social at Goddard
25 photos
WFIRST at #AAS235 Conference - 2020
19 photos
"Lost In Space" Tour of Goddard
4 photos
Cast members of the "Lost In Space" Netflix show toured NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, on Monday, Dec. 9, 2019.
Spitzer Sweet Sixteen
3 photos
Total Solar Eclipse - July 2, 2019
7 photos
‘STEM Boys Night In’ at NASA Goddard
41 photos
Jun 11, 2019
Late Friday night, almost 50 students from Maryland and Virginia arrived at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for a STEM-themed sleepover, ready to learn about...
Freshwater
21 photos
Whether concerned with floods, droughts, or the status and quality of water supplies, addressing the water-related needs of humans on Earth starts with knowing where the water is. With unique views...
Moon Landing Services for Artemis Program
23 photos
NASA has selected three commercial Moon landing service providers that will deliver science and technology payloads under Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) as part of the Artemis program. Each...
Goddard 60th Anniversary Group Photo
23 photos
This is a group photograph of Goddard employees in celebration of the center’s 60th anniversary. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, was established on May 1, 1959, as...
Apollo 8
23 photos, 2 videos
In August of 1968, three NASA astronauts received a call telling them to cancel their winter holiday plans — they were going to the Moon. Fifty years later we are celebrating the historic mission...
Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission Photos
39 photos
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of NASA's first space servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, we are sharing this gallery of images from all five of the Hubble servicing...
Goddard 2018
20 photos
Hurricane Willa
12 photos, 1 video
NASA’s Terra Satellite Celebrates 100K Orbits
49 photos
What has traveled 2.5 billion miles without leaving the 705 kilometers around Earth? Terra, the flagship Earth observing satellite is celebrating 100,000 orbits around Earth. Learn about the people...
Hurricane Michael
18 photos, 7 videos
Credit: NASA
New Simulation Sheds Light on Spiraling...
5 photos, 1 video
We have never observed the merger of two supermassive black holes like the one powering our Milky Way galaxy. When we do, what will astronomers see? Researchers are using high-end computer modeling...
2017 NASA Astronaut Candidate Class Visits Goddard
18 photos
The 2017 NASA astronaut candidates class (Group 22) visited NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, on Sept. 26, 2018.
These individuals were selected by NASA as candidates for...
Screening of “Above and Beyond: NASA’s...
6 photos
As part of NASA’s upcoming 60th anniversary, the Goddard Office of Communications hosted a screening of “Above and Beyond: NASA’s Journey to Tomorrow” on Wednesday, Sept. 26, at 2 p.m. in the...
Hurricane Florence
17 photos, 4 videos
Credit: NASA
NASA Administrator Visits Goddard
19 photos
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine visited NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. During his visit, Bridenstine met with senior staff, saw Goddard test facilities and mission...
Testing Satellite Servicing Technologies
8 photos
Within the black curtain-lined walls of the Robotic Operations Center (ROC) at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, engineers test technologies and operations for future...
Robotic Refueling Mission 3 (RRM3)
6 photos
Locations at Goddard
2 photos
Parker Solar Probe
15 photos
Macro Snowflakes
5 photos
Whether a snowflake is delicate and ornate, or dense and pellet-like heavily depends on how "rimed" it is. Riming happens when water vapor fills small cavities within the ice crystals, and...
The Aurora Named STEVE
11 photos, 3 videos
Recently discovered by citizen scientists, STEVE (Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement) is a celestial light phenomenon that appears at lower latitudes and more populous places than the...
2017: Big Year For IceBridge
44 photos
The 2017 field season was record-breaking for Operation IceBridge, NASA’s aerial survey of the state of polar ice. For the first time in its nine-year history, the mission, which aims to close the...
Landsat 8
25 photos, 1 video
Landsat 8 Marks Five Years in Orbit
In its five years in space, the Landsat 8 Earth-observing satellite has racked up some impressive statistics: 26,500 orbits around the planet, 1.1 million...
Operation IceBridge flight over the Larsen C...
10 photos
This is an photograph from the Oct. 31, 2017 Operation IceBridge flight over the Larsen C.
For the last nine years, NASA’s Operation IceBridge has been flying over Antarctica to measure changes in...
California Wildfires - 2017
11 photos, 1 video
Craig Tooley
3 photos
Hurricane Harvey
2 photos
Hurricane Irma
3 photos, 1 video
NASA and NOAA satellites have been providing valuable satellite imagery to forecasters at the National Hurricane Center, and revealed that Hurricane Irma has strengthened to a Category 5 hurricane on...
AVAIL
2110 photos, 116 videos
September 2017
2017 Total Solar Eclipse
36 photos, 1 video
NASA satellite images, videos, animations and visualizations of the 2017 total solar eclipse.
More info: eclipse2017.nasa.gov
Credit: NASA
NICER
11 photos
The Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) is a NASA Explorer Mission of Opportunity dedicated to studying the extraordinary environments — strong gravity, ultra-dense matter, and the...
Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences...
33 photos
On May 3, 2017, His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden visited NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
His Majesty’s visit came as part of his participation in a large delegation that also...
Earth Observing-1
19 photos
Since 2000, Earth Observing-1 has provided stunning views of our planet in its beauty and fury, while advancing satellite technology and imaging. The satellite is being turned off, but its legacy...
NASA Goes to the Super Bowl - 2017
3 photos, 1 video
Take a look at how NASA sees all the Super Bowl Championship Cities from space.
Enjoy the game and good luck to both teams!
More: www.nasa.gov/football
Apollo 1 Remembered - 50th Anniversary
26 photos
Jan. 27, 2017, marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 1 fire. On that day veteran astronaut Gus Grissom, first American spacewalker Ed White, and rookie Roger Chaffee were sitting atop the launch...
JWST Town Hall and Media Day
25 photos
Goddard employees were invited to a town hall with NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden, Associate Administrator for the NASA Science Mission Directorate Thomas Zurbuchen and Goddard Center Director...
Suomi NPP 5-Year Anniversary
20 photos
Five years after the successful launch of the NOAA/NASA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite on October 28, 2011, the mission is contributing significant advances in severe...
Asteroid Redirect Mission Update
5 photos
Asteroid Redirect Mission Update – On Sept. 14, 2016, NASA provided an update on the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) and how it contributes to the agency’s journey to Mars and protection of...
National Parks from Space
9 photos
The U.S. National Park Service celebrates its centennial in August 2016, commemorating 100 years of stewardship of America’s natural and historic treasures. Here's some of NASA’s best images of...
NASA's BARREL Mission in Sweden
14 photos
The NASA-funded BARREL – which stands for Balloon Array for Radiation-belt Relativistic Electron Losses – primarily measures X-rays in Earth’s atmosphere near the North and South Poles. These...
AVAIL Images
179 photos, 2 videos
2015 Film Festival
28 photos, 1 video
NAAMES Field Campaign Photo Essay
49 photos
The North Atlantic Aerosols and Marine Ecosystems Study (NAAMES) is a five year investigation to resolve key processes controlling ocean system function, their influences on atmospheric aerosols and...
NASA Super Pressure Balloon Begins Globetrotting...
7 photos
NASA successfully launched a super pressure balloon from Wanaka Airport, New Zealand, on Tuesday, May 17, on a potentially record-breaking, around-the-world test flight!
The purpose of the flight is...
JWST Mirror Revealed
14 photos, 1 video
May 4, 2016 - A rare view of the James Webb Space Telescope face-on, from the NASA Goddard cleanroom observation window.
Credit: NASA/Goddard
Leonardo DiCaprio visited Goddard Saturday to...
5 photos
Academy Award®- winning actor and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio visited NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland on Saturday, April 23, 2016.
During his visit, Mr....
Lynda Barry Visits NASA Goddard
11 photos
Cartoonist and professor of creativity Lynda Barry presented the benefits of creativity in everyday life as part of Goddard's Office of Communications Story Lab seminar series.
Credit:...
Piers Sellers
1 photo
Building 8 Aud
7 photos
Ending Year in Space: NASA Goddard Network...
4 photos
Ending Year in Space: NASA Goddard Network Maintains Communications from Space to Ground
Spending nearly a year in space, 249 miles from Earth, could be a lonely prospect, but an office at NASA’s...
2016 Super Bowl Cities from Space
3 photos, 1 video
Credit NASA/Goddard/Landsat
2016 Blizzard
9 photos, 1 video
Credit: NASA Goddard
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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and...
Senator Barbara Mikulski Visits NASA Goddard
50 photos
Maryland's Sen. Barbara Mikulski greeted employees at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, during a packed town hall meeting
Jan. 6. She discussed her history with Goddard and...
Hurricane Patricia
8 photos
Back to the Future
5 photos
Great Scott, This is Heavy!
You might see a DeLorean zipping around Greenbelt, Maryland, on Oct. 21, 2015, the day Marty McFly and Doc Brown arrive from 1985 in "Back to the Future, Part...
Aerial View of NASA Goddard
8 photos
The Goddard Space Flight Center's main campus is located within Greenbelt, Maryland, about 6.5 miles northeast of Washington, D.C. The center is a major U.S. laboratory for developing and operating...
President Park Geun-hye of South Korea
29 photos
GODDARD VISIT BY SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT – 14-OCT-2015
As part of her visit to the United States, President Park Geun-hye of South Korea visited NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt,...
Hurricane Joaquin
13 photos, 1 video
At 11 a.m. EDT (1500 UTC) on Wednesday, September 30, 2015 the center of Hurricane Joaquin was located near latitude 24.7 North, longitude 72.6 West. That puts the center of Joaquin about 215 miles...
Pluto
14 photos, 1 video
Looking Back at Hurricane Katrina Ten Years Later
14 photos, 6 videos
Typhoon Soudelor Seen by NASA Satellites
6 photos
NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites and NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided different views of Typhoon Soudelor from August 6 through August 10 as it made landfall in Taiwan and again in Eastern...
University Students Join NASA on Trip to Hawaiian...
10 photos
In June, five student journalists from Stony Brook University packed their hiking boots and hydration packs and joined a NASA-funded science team for 10 days on the lava fields of Kilauea, an active...
Interstellar Explosions for the Fourth of July
6 photos
Interstellar Explosions for the Fourth of July
Fireworks in Space
You think your fireworks are big?
These explosions occur across the universe nonstop.
Credit: NASA/Goddard
MESSENGER Favorites
14 photos
NASA Goddard Beauties
514 photos, 56 videos
2015 Super Bowl Cities from Space
6 photos
Credit: NASA/Goddard
Blizzard of 2015
7 photos, 1 video
Five Years of SDO Discoveries
26 photos
In honor of the 100 millionth image, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center chose some of their favorite images produced by SDO so far.
Credit: NASA/Goddard/SDO
Read more:...
SDO Collects Its 100-Millionth Image
6 photos
In honor of the 100 millionth image, Dean Pesnell, SDO's project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland and Karel Schrijver, the AIA principal investigator at Lockheed...
Satellite Sees Holiday Lights Brighten Cities
13 photos
City lights shine brighter during the holidays when compared with the rest of the year, as shown using a new analysis of daily data from the NASA-NOAA Suomi NPP satellite. Dark green pixels are areas...
Moon Phase and Libration, 2015
8 photos, 1 video
This visualization shows the Moon's phase and libration at hourly intervals throughout 2015, as viewed from the northern hemisphere. Each frame represents one hour.
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter...
OSIRIRS-REx: Bennu's Journey
6 photos, 4 videos
OSIRIRS-REx is a NASA sample return mission to visit Asteroid Bennu. We plan to grab a piece of Bennu, because it’s a time capsule that can tell us about the origins of our planet and our entire...
Author Steven Johnson, How We Got to Now,...
6 photos
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center welcomed Steven Johnson, author of How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World, to the Innovative Initiatives workshop on Thursday, November 13,...
Operation Ice Bridge - Antarctic 2014
8 photos
Hurricane Gonzalo
7 photos
CME WEEK: What To See in CME Images
8 photos
Two main types of explosions occur on the sun: solar flares and coronal mass ejections. Unlike the energy and x-rays produced in a solar flare – which can reach Earth at the speed of light in eight...
NASA's Ship-Aircraft Bio-Optical Research (SABOR)
9 photos
NASA's Ship-Aircraft Bio-Optical Research (SABOR) experiment is a coordinated ship and aircraft observation campaign off the Atlantic coast of the United States, an effort to advance space-based...
Apollo 11
15 photos
To learn more about Apollo 11 go to: www.nasa.gov/apollo45/ or www.nasa.gov/externalflash/apollo11_40/
or
Go here to see more images: history.nasa.gov/ap11ann/kippsphotos/apollo.html
Credit:...
U.S. Air Quality Improvement 2005-2011
9 photos, 3 videos
New NASA Images Highlight U.S. Air Quality Improvement
To see the feature story on NASA.gov go to: 1.usa.gov/1lPXAzw
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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s...
NASA Goes to the World Cup 2014
34 photos, 1 video
This is a set of NASA images representing countries participating in the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
Good luck to all of the teams!
Credit: NASA
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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center...
Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson Visits NASA Goddard
15 photos
Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson visited with Goddard's Space Flight Center Director Chris Scolese and the James Webb Space Telescope team at Goddard in Greenbelt, Md. on June 3, 2014. Tyson spoke to the team...
Earth Right Now
6 photos
To learn more about other NASA missions that contribute to understanding climate change, visit:
www.climate.nasa.gov
To learn more about NASA’s Earth science activity in 2014,...
Neutron Stars Rip Each Other Apart to Form Black...
5 photos, 1 video
Simulation frames from this NASA Goddard neutron star merger animation: bit.ly/1jolBYY
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
This supercomputer simulation shows one of the most violent events...
NASA Administrator Visits Goddard, Discusses MMS
7 photos
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden got a firsthand look at work being done on the four Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft during his visit to the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in...
Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission [MMS]
15 photos, 1 video
The Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, will study how the sun and the Earth's magnetic fields connect and disconnect, an explosive process that can accelerate particles through space to nearly the...
NASA's Best-Observed X-Class Flare of All Time
8 photos, 1 video
On March 29, 2014 the sun released an X-class flare. It was observed by NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS; NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO; NASA's Reuven Ramaty High...
Ballooning in the Constant Sun of the South Pole...
18 photos
Three months, 20 balloons, and one very successful campaign. The team for NASA's BARREL – short for Balloon Array for Radiation belt Relativistic Electron Losses -- mission returned from...
Floods
24 photos, 4 videos
Images of flooding from space.
Credit: NASA/Goddard
'Cosmos' - NASA Images of a Space-Time Odyssey
54 photos
Join us at @nasagoddard and @nasagoddardpix on Twitter as we live tweet NASA images during Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey Sundays 9:00 pm EDT/PST on Fox and Nat Geo Channel on Mondays at 10:00...
'Gravity' - NASA's Real-Life Images from Space
31 photos
NASA images of the International Space Station, Space Shuttle, NASA astronauts and various images of Earth captured from space.
Credit: NASA
Hubble Witnesses an Asteroid Mysteriously...
3 photos, 1 video
This series of images shows the asteroid P/2013 R3 breaking apart, as viewed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in 2013. This is the first time that such a body has been seen to undergo this kind...
GREECE Mission Launching Into Aurora
8 photos
Caption: A NASA-funded sounding rocket launches into an aurora in the early morning of March 3, 2014, over Venetie, Alaska. The GREECE mission studies how certain structures – classic curls like...
Black Marble - City Lights 2012
24 photos, 7 videos
Dec. 5, 2012
Scientists unveiled today an unprecedented new look at our planet at night. A global composite image, constructed using cloud-free night images from a new NASA and National Oceanic and...
NASAViz 1.9 (Universal App)
23 photos, 1 video
NASA Visualization Explorer Now Available For All iOS Devices
The popular NASA Visualization Explorer app, first launched for the iPad in July 2011, is now available for the iPhone and all devices...
NASA Goes to the Winter Olympics
24 photos
View all the cities that have hosted the Winter Olympics thru the eyes of NASA. The first celebration of the Winter Olympics was held in Chamonix, France, in 1924.
The Winter Olympics have been...
Hubble Space Telescope
366 photos, 41 videos
Here are a few of our favorite Hubble Space Telescope images.
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency. NASA's Goddard...
Landsat Satellite Images
17 photos, 3 videos
Here is a collection of some our favorite Landsat images from over the years.
Landsat 7 is a U.S. satellite used to acquire remotely sensed images of the Earth's land surface and surrounding coastal...
James Webb Space Telescope
103 photos, 2 videos
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large, infrared-optimized space telescope. JWST will find the first galaxies that formed in the early Universe, connecting the Big Bang to our own Milky...
Mysterious Roving Rocks of Racetrack Playa
19 photos
The rocks on Racetrack Playa in Death Valley, Calif., move across the flat, dry bed of this ancient lake. The interns with the 2010 Lunar and Planetary Science Academy (LPSA) at NASA's Goddard Space...
Transit of Venus - 2012
30 photos, 7 videos
Transit of Venus - On June 5, 2012 at sunset on the East Coast of North America and earlier for other parts of the U.S., the planet Venus will make its final trek across the face of the sun as seen...
NASA Goes to the Summer Olympics
23 photos
NASA Goes to the Olympics – View all the cities that have hosted the modern Summer Olympics, starting with Athens in 1896 thru London in 2012. There have been 29 Summer Olympic Games held in 22...
Dynamic Earth
9 photos, 2 videos
These short video teasers and still images are from a 4-minute excerpt of "Dynamic Earth: Exploring Earth's Climate Engine," a fulldome, high-resolution movie playing at planetariums around...
The People of Goddard Space Flight Center
122 photos
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center is home to the nation's largest organization of combined scientists, engineers and technologists that build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study the...
Explored!
88 photos, 37 videos
This is a set of images and videos that have appeared in "Explore" on Flickr.
Thanks for viewing our images!
See the list here.
Earth as Art 3
11 photos
A collection of Landsat 5 and 7 scenes created for aesthetic purposes rather than scientific interpretation. The Earth as Art Three exhibit provides fresh and inspiring glimpses of different parts...
Top Images of 2012
24 photos, 1 video
SDO
37 photos, 10 videos
About The SDO Mission
SDO: The Solar Dynamics Observatory is the first mission to be launched for NASA's Living With a Star (LWS) Program, a program designed to understand the causes of solar...
Interesting
23 photos, 1 video
Here is a collection of our top most interesting photos.
Enjoy and thanks for viewing our images!
Earth Day 2010
22 photos
April 22, 2010
We here at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center think Earth is a pretty special place and hope you love the Big Blue Marble as much as we do. Here are a few of our favorite Earth images...
Earth Day 2011
11 photos
Join the NASA Goddard Digital Learning Network in celebrating Earth Day with Landsat. Launched in 1972, the Landsat program is the longest continuous global record of the Earth's surface. It...
Pursuit of Light
8 photos
Big data; awesome images; indie filmmaking.
Click HERE [youtu.be/5tE5XJzZ-Rw] to see the complete movie!
NASA dreams big science. In this awesome new short, NASA presents the Earth, the planets,...
Happy 10th Birthday, Flickr!
8 photos, 2 videos
We pulled together a set of 10 images in celebration of Flickr turning 10!
Comet Lovejoy
4 videos
SDO Spring Eclipse
4 photos
Twice a year, SDO enters an eclipse season where the spacecraft slips behind Earth for up to 72 minutes a day. Unlike the crisp shadow one sees on the sun during a lunar eclipse, Earth's shadow has...
FIFA World Cup
30 photos
This is a set of images representing countries participating in the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Good luck!
Credit: NASA
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is home to the nation's largest organization of...
Hurricane Sandy
27 photos, 6 videos
NASA satellite images of Hurricane Sandy.
For the latest info from NASA on Hurricane Sandy go to: 1.usa.gov/Ti5SgS
Credit: NASA
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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables...
August 31 CME
8 photos, 3 videos
On August 31, 2012 a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the sun's atmosphere, the corona, erupted out into space at 4:36 p.m. EDT. The coronal mass ejection, or CME, traveled...
NASA Satellites Capture Super Bowl XLVIII Cities
6 photos
Credit: NASA Goddard
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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and...
Earth
50 photos, 8 videos
A few NASA images of our favorite planet, Earth!
NASA image use policy.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics,...
Apollo 17: 40 Years Later
9 photos
On Dec. 7, 1972, Astronauts Gene Cernan, Jack Schmitt and Ron Evans launched on a Saturn V rocket on what what be the final voyage of the Apollo program.
Cernan and Schmitt, NASA's first...
Antares
41 photos
WALLOPS ISLAND, Va.—Orbital Sciences Corp. completed roll-out of the first fully-integrated Antares rocket to the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad-0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on...
Comet ISON
18 photos, 2 videos
Comet ISON began its trip from the Oort cloud region of our solar system and is now travelling toward the sun. The comet will reach its closest approach to the sun on Thanksgiving Day -- 28 Nov 2013...
Goddard Interns Experience a Little Mars on Earth
22 photos
Almost Mars
In the Grand Canyon, NASA Goddard interns experience a little Mars on Earth.
When NASA's Curiosity rover sent back its first pictures of Mount Sharp on Mars, the resemblance to Earth's...
Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM)
48 photos, 4 videos
The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission is an international partnership co-led by NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) that will provide next-generation global...
Operation IceBridge 2013 - Antarctic
9 photos
NASA's Operation IceBridge is an airborne science mission to study Earth's polar ice. In 2013, IceBridge is conducting its first field campaign directly from Antarctica. For more information about...
Typhoon Haiyan
5 photos
NASA satellites provided data to meteorologists at the Joint Typhoon Warning Center who were updating forecasts for Tropical Storm Haiyan as it weakened from a typhoon and made a second landfall in...
Administrator Bolden and Sen. Mikulski Visit...
9 photos
Oct. 22, 2013 -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Center Director Chris Scolese welcome Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski to Goddard Space Flight Center on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013. This marked...
NASA Satellite Tracks Powerful Typhoon Usagi to...
4 photos, 1 video
Southeastern China was hit by the most powerful typhoon of 2013 on Sept. 22, when Typhoon Usagi came ashore landfall in the Guangdong Province during the evening. NASA's TRMM satellite observed very...
LADEE
20 photos
What is LADEE?
The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) is designed to study the Moon's thin exosphere and the lunar dust environment. An "exosphere" is an atmosphere...
Rim Fire
5 photos
Credit NASA
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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and...
Daytime Dynamo Rocket Launch
13 photos
WALLOPS ISLAND, VA – Two suborbital rockets were successfully launched 15 seconds apart this morning from the NASA Wallops Flight Facility as part of a study of electrical currents in the...
Green: Vegetation on Our Planet
6 photos
Credit: NOAA/NASA
To read more go to: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/NPP/news/vegetation.html
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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific...
Summer 2013 Storms
11 photos, 2 videos
NASA image use policy.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard...
Floods
34 photos, 5 videos
Tropical Storm Andrea
6 photos, 1 video
NASA Sees Heavy Rainfall in Tropical Storm Andrea
NASA’s TRMM satellite passed over Tropical Storm Andrea right after it was named, while NASA’s Terra satellite captured a visible image of the...
Tracking A Superstorm
5 photos, 1 video
A NASA computer model simulates the astonishing track and forceful winds of Hurricane Sandy.
Hurricane Sandy pummeled the East Coast late in 2012’s Atlantic hurricane season, causing 159 deaths...
NASA Satellites See Hurricane Barbara Come Ashore...
5 photos, 3 videos
NASA Satellites See Hurricane Barbara Come Ashore and Fizzle
Hurricane Barbara recently made landfall along the southern Pacific coast of Mexico and NASA’s TRMM and Suomi NPP satellites captured...
Alaska’s Pavlof Volcano: NASA’s View from...
7 photos
The Pavlof volcano, located in the Alaska Peninsula National Wildlife Refuge has been producing steam and gas plumes since May 13. The volcano's plumes were captured by NASA satellite imagery and...
Oklahoma Tornado 2013
11 photos, 3 videos
On May 20, 2013, NASA and NOAA satellites observed the system that generated severe weather in the south central United States and spawned the Moore, Okla., tornado.
The tornado that struck Moore on...
NASA’s BARREL Mission Launches 20 Balloons
12 photos
In Antarctica in January, 2013 – the summer at the South Pole – scientists launched 20 balloons up into the air to study an enduring mystery of space weather: when the giant radiation belts...
Glaciers and Sea Level Rise
11 photos
Ninety-nine percent of all of Earth¹s land ice is locked into the massive Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. But the world¹s independent glaciers, humble repositories of the remaining one percent...
Suomi NPP Satellite Views of Tropical Cyclone...
6 photos
The first tropical cyclone in the Northern Indian Ocean this season has been getting better organized as seen in NASA satellite imagery. Tropical Cyclone Mahasen is projected to track north through...
NASA Now Has Half of all Webb Telescope's Primary...
4 photos
Another delivery of the James Webb Space Telescope's flight mirrors arrived at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. during the week of April 29, 2013. The latest arrivals included the...
MIRI Installed in Webb Structure
4 photos
Engineers worked meticulously to implant the James Webb Space Telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument into the ISIM, or Integrated Science Instrument Module, in the cleanroom at NASA's Goddard Space...
Spring Fling: Sun Emits a Mid-Level Flare
5 photos
Earth-directed CMEs can cause a space weather phenomenon called a geomagnetic storm, which occurs when they connect with the outside of the Earth's magnetic envelope, the magnetosphere, for an...
Extensive Ice Fractures in the Beaufort Sea
3 photos, 1 video
IceBridge - Arctic 2013
6 photos, 3 videos
03.20.13
NASA Begins New Season of Arctic Ice Science Flights
NASA's Operation IceBridge scientists have begun another season of research activity over Arctic ice sheets and sea ice with the first...
Comet PanSTARRS
3 photos, 2 videos
This movie from the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) shows comet PanSTARRS as it moved around the sun from March 10-15,2013 (repeated three times). The images were captured by the...
GPM "Let it Snow" Photo Contest Winners
10 photos
The Global Precipitation Measurement mission is happy to announce the top ten winners of the "Let It Snow" photo competition.
Thank you to everyone who submitted their best pictures of...
NASA's Aquarius Sees Salty Shifts
3 photos, 2 videos
Fermi's Motion Produces a Study in Spirograph
3 photos, 1 video
NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope orbits our planet every 95 minutes, building up increasingly deeper views of the universe with every circuit. Its wide-eyed Large Area Telescope (LAT) sweeps...
MESSENGER
26 photos, 1 video
The MESSENGER spacecraft is the first ever to orbit the planet Mercury, and the spacecraft's seven scientific instruments and radio science investigation are unraveling the history and evolution of...
Asteroid 2012 DA14
1 video
Flux Ropes
4 photos, 2 videos
On July 18, 2012, a fairly small explosion of light burst off the lower right limb of the sun. Such flares often come with an associated eruption of solar material, known as a coronal mass ejection...
The Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM)
30 photos, 3 videos
Feb. 7, 2013
Managers have given the "go" to proceed toward a Feb. 11 launch of NASA's Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) spacecraft atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from...
VISIONS: Seeing the Aurora in a New Light
19 photos
VISIONS: Seeing the Aurora in a New Light
To read more about the VISIONS mission go to: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/visions-aurora.html
A team of NASA scientists arrived in Poker...
Cretaceous Footprints Found on Goddard Campus
36 photos
About 110 million light years away, the bright, barred spiral galaxy NGC3259 was just forming stars in dark bands of dust and gas. On Earth, a plant-eating dinosaur left footprints in the Cretaceous...
TDRS-K
6 photos
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The first of NASA's three next-generation
Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS), known as TDRS-K, launched
at 8:48 p.m. EST Wednesday from Cape Canaveral Air Force...
Cyclone Felleng
6 photos
NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite captured this false-colored night-time image of Cyclone Felleng during the night on Jan. 28, 2013. Felleng is located in the Southern Indian Ocean, and is northwest of...
Snow
29 photos
This is a set of images showing SNOW from space!
Credit: NASA/GSFC
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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth...
Tropical Cyclone Evan
7 photos
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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard...
History of the Blue Marble
23 photos
One of the most iconic and recognizable image on earth is of earth, better know as the Blue Marble here at NASA.
This set contains a few of our favorite and most recognizable images of earth created...
Typhoon Bopha
8 photos
Credit: NASA
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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and...
NASA's MESSENGER Finds New Evidence for Water Ice...
3 photos
Solar Eclipse - November 13, 2012
10 photos, 3 videos
On Nov. 13, 2012, a narrow corridor in the southern hemisphere experienced a total solar eclipse. The corridor lay mostly over the ocean but also cut across the northern tip of Australia where both...
NASAViz 1.6.1 (iPad app)
17 photos
NASA science: revealed.
svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/nasaviz/
This is the NASA Visualization Explorer, the coolest way to get stories about advanced space-based research delivered right to your iPad. A...
Suomi NPP
26 photos, 1 video
Suomi NPP — the National Polar-orbiting Partnership mission -- is the first of a new generation of satellites that will observe many facets of our changing Earth, collecting critical data to...
IceBridge, Antarctic 2012
21 photos
Photos and video from the 2012 IceBridge Antarctic campaign based in Punta Arenas, Chile.
Credit: NASA
NASA's Operation IceBridge is an airborne science mission to study Earth's polar ice. For more...
Landsat Images Land on US Postal Stamps
8 photos
The U.S. Post Office released on Oct. 1 a series of 15 Earthscapes Forever stamps that depict America's diverse landscapes viewed from aerial and satellite perspectives. Taken from heights of several...
Hurricane Michael
2 photos, 1 video
To read more about Hurricane Michael go to:
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hurricanes/archives/2012/h2012...
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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through...
Arctic Sea Ice Shrinks To New Low
8 photos, 2 videos
NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) announced on Aug. 27, 2012, that the ice cap covering the Arctic Ocean is now smaller than ever recorded since consistent satellite measurements...
Hurricane Isaac
15 photos, 4 videos
For full storm history on Isaac, visit NASA's Hurricane page: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hurricanes/archives/2012/h2012...
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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s...
Mars Science Laboratory - Curiosity
6 photos
The Curiosity rover bristles with multiple cameras and instruments, including Goddard's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite. By looking for evidence of water, carbon, and other important...
Petermann Glacier
8 photos, 1 video
Landsat Celebrates 40 Years Observing Earth
12 photos, 1 video
The Landsat program is the longest continuous global record of Earth observations from space -- ever.
Click here to read more: www.nasa.gov/landsat
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July 6 X-Class Flare
2 photos, 1 video
Active Region 1515 released an X1.1 class flare from the lower right of the sun on July 6, 2012, peaking at 7:08 PM EDT. This flare caused a radio blackout, labeled as an R3 on the National Oceanic...
Incandescent Sun
4 photos, 1 video
This video takes SDO images and applies additional processing to enhance the structures visible. While there is no scientific value to this processing, it does result in a beautiful, new way of...
Waldo Canyon Fire
7 photos
ICESCAPE: Arctic Phytoplankton Bloom
16 photos
ICESCAPE, or Impacts of Climate on EcoSystems and Chemistry of the Arctic
Pacific Environment, is a shipborne NASA mission to explore the impacts of
climate change in the Arctic Ocean. During summer...
NASAViz 1.0 (iPad App)
12 photos, 1 video
NASA's iPad App Beams Science Straight to Users
www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/releases/2011/11-044.html
This is the NASA Visualization Explorer, the coolest way to get stories about advanced...
NASAViz 1.0.3 (iPad App)
14 photos, 2 videos
NASA Viz App Will Now Take Users Across the Universe.
www.nasa.gov/topics/technology/features/nasa-vis-update.html)
This is the NASA Visualization Explorer, the coolest way to get stories about...
NASAViz 1.5 (iPad app)
13 photos
NASA science: revealed.
svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/nasaviz/
This is the NASA Visualization Explorer, the coolest way to get stories about advanced space-based research delivered right to your iPad. A direct...
2012 Annular Solar Eclipse
5 photos, 2 videos
Post YOUR images of the 2012 annular solar eclipse in our Flickr group: www.flickr.com/groups/2012annulareclipse/
On Sunday, May 20th, the Moon will pass in front of the sun, transforming sunbeams...
Landsat View: City Growth
11 photos
The Landsat program has seen a literal world of changes in its 40 years of observing Earth. This set compares "before and after" views of some of those changes.
Links:...
NASA's Aqua Satellite Celebrates 10th Anniversary
11 photos, 1 video
May 4, 2012
NASA's Aqua Satellite Celebrates 10th Anniversary
The Aqua satellite mission has proved to be a major component of the Earth Observing System (EOS) for its ability to gather...
Sally Ride
4 photos
In a space agency filled with trailblazers, Sally K. Ride was a pioneer of a different sort. The soft-spoken California physicist broke the gender barrier 29 years ago when she rode to orbit aboard...
US National Parks Viewed from Space
7 photos
April 27, 2012
In recognition of National Park Week (www.nps.gov/npweek/) NASA Goddard brings you unique views of some of our favorite US National Parks, captured by the Landsat satellite.
Credit:...
April 16 Flare and CME
4 photos, 2 videos
A beautiful prominence eruption shot off the east limb (left side) of the sun on Monday, April 16, 2012. Such eruptions are often associated with solar flares, and in this case an M1 class...
IceBridge - Arctic 2012
15 photos
IceBridge, a six-year NASA mission, is the largest airborne survey of Earth's polar ice ever flown. It will yield an unprecedented three-dimensional view of Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets, ice...
Launch Madness. Five Rockets. Five Minutes.
11 photos
NASA image captured March 27, 2012
NASA successfully launched five suborbital sounding rockets this morning from its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia as part of a study of the upper level jet...
LRO: See Moon's Evolution, Take a Tour
2 videos
In honor of 1,000 days in orbit, the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) team at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Md. has released two new videos.
LRO Views of Apollo Landing Sites
8 photos
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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard...
X Class Flare - March 6, 2012
11 photos, 3 videos
The sun erupted with one of the largest solar flares of this solar cycle on March 6, 2012 at 7PM ET. This flare was categorized as an X5.4, making it the second largest flare -- after an X6.9 on...
Landsat's TIRS Instrument
10 photos
Scheduled for installation on the newest Landsat satellite, TIRS will take Earth's temperature with new technology that applies quantum physics to detect heat. TIRS will be the first time this...
Super Bowl 2012
4 photos
NASA Satellite Captures Super Bowl Cities - Indianapolis, Pawtucket/Foxborough and New York City.
Landsat 7 is a U.S. satellite used to acquire remotely sensed images of the Earth's land surface and...
Top Images of 2011
9 photos, 2 videos
Here are some of our most popular images from 2011.
Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four...
Featured Images
140 photos, 28 videos
Lunar Eclipse Essentials
9 photos, 2 videos
Your essential lunar images from NASA Goddard.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and...
Earth Science - Goddard Year in Review 2011
21 photos, 3 videos
Astrophysics - Goddard Year in Review 2011
24 photos, 3 videos
Technology - Goddard Year in Review 2011
12 photos, 2 videos
Planetary - Goddard Year in Review 2011
8 photos, 2 videos
Images representing planetary missions and research at Goddard Space Flight Center in 2011.
Credit: NASA
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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through...
Heliophysics - Goddard Year in Review 2011
5 photos, 5 videos
2011 was an active year for NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. This image set shows some heliophysics highlights with Goddard connections.
Credit: NASA
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NASA Tools
13 photos
Goddard's Ritsko Wins 2011 SAVE Award
The winner of the 2011 SAVE Award is Matthew Ritsko, a Goddard financial manager. His tool lending library would track and enable sharing of expensive...
How Will We Sustain a More Populated Planet?
10 photos
Expanding demand from a growing world population — now numbered at over 7 billion — exerts unprecedented pressure on global natural resources, especially forests, water, and agriculture. To...
Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf
12 photos, 1 video
NASA image acquired October 24, 2011
NASA's DC-8 flew over the Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf on Oct. 14, 2011 as part of the agency's Operation IceBridge. A large, long-running crack was plainly...
Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM)
17 photos
On Saturday, November 26, NASA is scheduled to launch the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission featuring Curiosity, the largest and most advanced rover ever sent to the Red Planet.
The Curiosity...
Bill Nye visits Goddard Space Flight Center
11 photos, 2 videos
Bill Nye the Science Guy visited NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center for a tour on Sept. 8, 2011.
Credit: NASA/GSFC/Bill Hrybyk
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four...
IceBridge, Antarctica 2011
14 photos
NASA's Operation IceBridge returns to a base camp of Punta Arenas, Chile for the third year of flights over Antarctica's changing sea ice, glaciers and ice sheets. NASA's DC-8, outfitted with seven...
STS135 Crew Visits Goddard
8 photos
STS-135 CREW VISITS GSFC: On Tuesday, October 11, 2011 NASA Astronauts of the STS-135 crew visited NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt, MD to share their spaceflight experiences....
2011 Sea Ice Minimum Live Shot Campaign
5 photos
September 20, 2011
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center produces a series of live shots to discuss 2011’s record low sea ice minimum. NASA’s Program Manager for the Cryosphere, Dr. Tom Wagner,...
NASA's Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS)
2 photos, 1 video
NASA's Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, or UARS, is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere Sept. 23, plus or minus a day.
NASA's UARS satellite, launched in 1991 from the Space Shuttle, was the...
Arctic Sea Ice Minimum 2011
7 photos, 1 video
This set of visualizations from Goddard Space Flight Center’s Scientific Visualization Studio captures the vast changes in Arctic sea ice from its annual maximum in late winter to its annual...
Hurricane Irene
26 photos, 10 videos
Caption This: Summer 2011
9 photos
For nine weeks in the summer of 2011, we at NASA Goddard challenged you to write clever, snarky captions for photos selected from our archives. This Flickr set shows the results.
NASA Goddard Space...
Robotic Refueling Mission
5 photos
The Robotic Refueling Mission is an external International Space Station experiment designed to demonstrate and test the technologies, tools, and techniques needed to robotically refuel and repair...
Wallops Flight Facility
22 photos, 1 video
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Wallops Flight Facility, located on Virginia's Eastern Shore, was established in 1945 by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, as a center for aeronautic...
Nabro Volcano
10 photos
Two NASA Satellites Monitor the Ash and Smoke From Africa's Nabro Volcano
The Nabro volcano's first eruption occurred on June, 12, 2011 and satellite imagery from NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites...
Chile's Puyehue-Cordón Caulle volcano
18 photos
NASA images of Chile's Puyehue-Cordón Caulle volcano over the past week.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics,...
Seth Green
16 photos
Hollywood actors Seth Green and Clare Grant visit NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD on Tuesday, May 24, 2011.
Credit: NASA/GSFC/Pat Izzo
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables...
Behind the Scenes @ Goddard
71 photos, 1 video
Behind the scenes with the greater video, animation, visualization, and web teams at Goddard.
Grímsvötn Volcano
4 photos
NASA images showing the Grímsvötn Volcano in Iceland.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System...
Mississippi Flooding 2011
4 photos, 4 videos
Credit: NASA Earth Observatory
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics....
First Anniversary of SDO
6 photos, 6 videos
We are celebrating the first anniversary of SDO and it's accomplishments with this 'best of SDO' gallery.
On April 21, 2010, the solar dynamics observatory captured its first images -- an event...
Operation IceBridge, Arctic 2011
28 photos
Researchers and flight crew arrived in Thule, Greenland, on Monday, March 14, for the start of NASA's 2011 Operation IceBridge, an airborne mission to study changes in Arctic polar ice. This year's...
Tsunami hits Japan March 2011
10 photos
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in...
MESSENGER Sends Back First Image of Mercury from...
9 photos
MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging)
The Mission:
To become the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury, MESSENGER followed a path through the inner solar system,...
SeaWiFS instrument onboard SeaStar
11 photos
The SeaWiFS instrument was the first to give scientists a complete measure of the planet’s land- and water surface-based biological life from a single instrument. This image shows the gradient in...
Japan from Space
18 photos
This is a set of images showing Japan from space.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration,...
Tropical Cyclones of 2011
14 photos
Operation Ice Bridge
16 photos, 1 video
You can read follow a blog about Operation IceBridge here: blogs.nasa.gov/cm/newui/blog/viewpostlist.jsp?blogname=ic...
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four...
International Observe the Moon Night
18 photos
On September 18, 2010 the world joined the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Visitor Center in Greenbelt, Md., as well as other NASA Centers to celebrate the first annual International Observe the...
Space Shuttle Discovery's Final Launch
11 photos
NASA images captured February 24, 2011
Images shot of Discovery's final launch from the Launch Complex 39 Press Site at the Kennedy Space Center.
Credit: NASA/GSFC/Rebecca Roth
NASA Goddard Space...
2010 Hurricane Season
16 photos, 3 videos
To learn more go to: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hurricanes/main/index.html
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is home to the nation's largest organization of combined scientists, engineers and...
Hubble 20th Anniversary
5 photos, 3 videos
Starry-Eyed Hubble Celebrates 20 Years of Awe and Discovery.
As the Hubble Space Telescope achieves the major milestone of two decades on orbit, NASA and the Space Telescope Science Institute, or...
Hurricane Katrina: The 5th Anniversary NASA...
8 photos, 4 videos
In early August 2005, Katrina was just a name. By September, it had become synonymous with the costliest and one of the deadliest tropical cyclones in U.S. history.
Five years later, NASA is...
Flooding in Pakistan
5 photos
NASA's satellite have acquired images of the flooding in Pakastan.
To view more images go here: earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/event.php?id=44986
Credit: NASA’s Earth...
Ireland
8 photos
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics....
Glory to Study Key Pieces of the Climate Puzzle
17 photos
Glory will Increase Our Understanding of the Earth's Energy Balance
The Earth's energy balance and the effect on climate requires measuring black carbon soot and other aerosols, and the total solar...
Celebrating 400 Years of Sunspot Observations
8 photos, 2 videos
In March of 1611, a German medical student named Johannes Fabricius left school at Leiden in Holland carrying several of the new-fangled telescopes that were beginning to appear in the Netherlands....
MABEL Flies Her Maiden Voyage
7 photos
MABEL will never fly in space; rather, her work high in the atmosphere provides the foundation for future ICESat-2 science. The flights proved that the measurement technique selected for ICESat-2 --...
Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
32 photos, 2 videos
NASA Satellites Eye Gulf Oil Spill
On April 20, 2010, an oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico left a dozen workers missing and several more critically injured and started a large fire that was...
Animation & Video
1 photo, 53 videos
Animation & Video from the Scientific Visualization Studio
The mission of the Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS) is to facilitate scientific inquiry and outreach within NASA programs...
GRIP 2010
5 photos
The Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) experiment is a NASA Earth science field experiment in 2010 that is being conducted to better understand how tropical storms form and develop...
SDO First Light
10 photos, 13 videos
Launched on Feb. 11, 2010, SDO is the most advanced spacecraft ever designed to study the sun. During its five-year mission, it will examine the sun's magnetic field and also provide a better...
Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull Volcano, Iceland
35 photos
This set of images shows the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull Volcano in Iceland captured by NASA satellite Terra - MODIS from March 24 thru April 15, 2010.
To learn more go to:...
STEREO 360
6 photos, 5 videos
Weather
209 photos, 22 videos
Summer Solstice 2010
5 photos, 2 videos
Welcome first day of summer!
Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Warming world: Snaps from Space
10 photos
Flood. Drought. Heat waves. Ice melt. The impact of a warming world is being manifested in a variety of ways, and we can see it from space. Browse through our gallery of pictures taken by NASA...
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
12 photos, 2 videos
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is scheduled for a one year exploration mission in a polar orbit about 31 miles above the lunar surface. During this time, LRO will produce a comprehensive map...
Aerosols: From Ash in the Wind to Smoke from the...
15 photos
There's far more to aerosols than volcanic ash and spray cans. Read a related news feature here:
www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/aerosol-overview.html
NASA Center for Climate Simulation
11 photos, 1 video
Introduced on June 2, 2010, the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) is an integrated set of supercomputing, visualization, and data interaction technologies that will enhance agency...
Sun-Earth Day
9 photos, 5 videos
NASA's Sun-Earth Day is comprised of a series of programs and events that occur throughout the year culminating with a celebration on or near the Spring Equinox. For Sun-Earth Day 2010, we will take...
GOES-P Satellite Ready for Launch
9 photos
March 4, 2010: Ready, set, GOES! The countdown to launch is on for the newest Geostationary Operational Environmental satellite, GOES-P. GOES-P is set to launch Tuesday, March 4th at 6:19 EST from...
Early Results from LRO Press Conference 2009.09.17
15 photos
2010 Snowmageddon
15 photos
Hundreds of ground crew workers at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. have been working since Friday afternoon to keep buildings safe and ensure essential employees are there to...
History Detectives Visit NASA Goddard Space...
9 photos
"History Detectives" Investigate the Case of the Mylar Mystery
To read more go to: www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/features/2010/mylar-mys...
PHOTO CREDIT: NASA/Debbie Mccallum
Astronauts Install SpaceCube on International...
14 photos
SpaceCube is a next-generation computer system developed at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The potentially revolutionary computer system, which provides up to 25 times the...
ICESat's Notable Moments in Science
10 photos
Over the last decade, NASA has launched a series of satellites to monitor the health of our planet. One such satellite -- the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) -- has provided a...
NASA Day at Maryland Capitol Celebrates Hubble...
12 photos
NASA Day at Maryland Capitol Celebrates Hubble 20th Anniversary
On February 23, Goddard employees presented interactive exhibits and engaging presentations in the Presidential Conference Center at...
Digital Learning Network
24 photos
NASA's DLN
One of the educational activities WALL-E will participate in is with NASA's Digital Learning Network. Through videoconferencing and live webcasts, DLN modules bring NASA content into the...
Hands-on Astronomy at Mauna Kea
14 photos
Stars and planets are too far away for us to visit (for now!), but being an astronomer is still an adventure. Join Kelly Fast and her colleagues on top of a mountain in Hawai’i as they gear up to...
Lesser Sunda Islands (or LOST location)
3 photos
Membata is the fictional location on the TV series LOST and the crash site of Oceanic flight 815.
These NASA satellite images represent the Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia and the region where...
A NASA Goddard Finale to the International Year...
9 photos
The Visitor Center at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. hosted a one-of-a-kind event on January 13 featuring expert Hubble scientist Dr. David Leckrone.
Dr. Leckrone recounted...
Goddard Internal Research and Development Poster...
4 photos
Technologists Gather to Share Ideas
Everything from studying the sun’s impact on earth to advanced electronic instruments to probe the vacuum of space was on display during the Internal Research...
Earth Science Week at Goddard 2009.10.21
4 photos
Hubble DLN Education Event 2009.09.10
20 photos
NASM Hubble Legacy 2009.09.09
16 photos
Hubble's New Eyes: ERO Press Con 2009.09.09
20 photos
Tour of the Crysosphere 2009.09.02
11 photos
Back in 2002, NASA created a film using satellite data that took viewers on a tour of Earth’s frozen regions. This year, NASA visualizers are taking viewers on a return trip to see how things have...
NASA-TV Wins and Emmy 2009.08.22
10 photos
Goddard Welcomes STS-125 Crew 2009.07.23
7 photos
Apollo 11 EVA Video Restoration 2009.07.16
31 photos, 2 videos
Goddard Day 2009.07.09
4 photos
Public Affairs Pot Luck 2009.07.01
4 photos
LRO Lunar Orbit Insertion Event 2009.06.23
39 photos
SDO Media Day 2009.06.22
8 photos, 6 videos
Scenes from an open house for media held June 22, 2009.
LRO Launch 2009.06.18
16 photos
Harrison Schimitt Returns to the Moon ...
6 photos
... with a little help from LRO
Goddard 50th Anniversary Dinner 2009.05.30
7 photos
Singer Patti Labelle performed at the Goddard anniversary event.
Goddard Center Director Rob Strain made a presentation at the beginning of the event. Credit: NASA/Bill Hrybyk
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Maryland's Place in Space 2009.05.30
40 photos
Hubble Servicing Mission / 2009.05.11
124 photos
Behind the scenes shots from Goddard activities during the STS-125 Mission
STS-125 Mission by MSoluri 2009.05.13
16 photos
Hubble Prelaunch Press Conference 2009.04.23
6 photos
Hubble Servicing Mission Press Conference
Kenji Williams Earth Day Distance Learning Event...
9 photos
GREENBELT, Md. – In celebration of Earth Day 2009 NASA’s Digital Learning Network teamed with director and violinist Kenji Williams to present an out of this world experience known as Bella Gaia....
Sunday Experiment 2009.04.19
4 photos
STEREO - 3D Solar Storms 2009.04.14
9 photos, 3 videos
Arctic Sea Ice Maximum Interviews 2009.04.06
4 photos
Yuri's Night at Goddard 2009.04.04
15 photos
100 Hours of Astronomy Webcasts 2009.04.03
18 photos
www.100hoursofastronomy.org/
Sun-Earth Day 2009.03.20
29 photos
Ozone Recovery 2009.03.19
7 photos
Annapolis Day 2009.02.12
4 photos
NOAA-N Prime Interviews 2009.02.03
10 photos
With David Adamec and Molly Brown
Mars Methane Science Update 2009.01.15
18 photos
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mars/news/marsmethane.html
Credit: NASA / Paul Alers
Morgan Freeman 2008.12.29
9 photos
LaunchFest 2008.09.13
9 photos
Hubble SM4 L-30 PC 2008.09.08
17 photos
Scenes from Hubble SM4 pre-launch press conferences
Disc Ch / Young Sci Challenge 2008.10.06
24 photos
China Solar Eclipse 2008.08.01
13 photos
THEMIS Media Telecon 2008.07.24
13 photos
Dead Zone 2008.07.11
8 photos
Media San Transition 2008.07.01
6 photos
LRO Media Day 2008.06.03
9 photos
www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/lro_media.html
Media Invited for NASA LRO Media Day06.03.08
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. invites reporters to participate in a special media...
Knight Center for Journalism 2008.05.29
7 photos
Dr. Robert H. Goddard
28 photos
Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard (1882-1945). Dr. Goddard has been recognized as the father of American rocketry and as one of the pioneers in the theoretical exploration of space. Robert Hutchings...
Science on a Sphere
20 photos, 1 video
Goddard Activities
26 photos
Video and Visualization
8 photos, 12 videos
Hits, Grabs, Clips
89 photos
Job and Fellowship Opportunities
1 photo
Goddard Studios Production Team
67 photos, 1 video
Behind the scenes with the members of the greater Goddard community.
Goddard HD Science Studio
29 photos
Goddard Visitor Center
37 photos
A set of images from the Goddard Visitor Center.
Film and Video Locations at Goddard
58 photos
Film and video locations at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
- Goddard's HD Science Studio in Building 28
- Goddard visitor center including the rocket garden
- Goddard Main auditorium in...
Dinosaur at Goddard
25 photos, 1 video