Curiosity Rover’s Tracks from Space
NASA’s Curiosity rover tracks from the first drives are visible in this image captured by the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA‘s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
Curiosity’s New Home
The first two full-resolution images of the Martian surface, from the Navigation cameras on NASA’s Curiosity rover, located on the rover’s “head” or mast. The rim of Gale Crater can be seen in the distance beyond the pebbly ground. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
First Mars Curiosity images
Curiosity landed facing its ultimate target, Mt. Sharp about 5.5 kilometers tall, in front of the rover’s own shadow, in this new image from the front-facing hazard cameras. Image Credit: NASA/JPL
FINESSE for Exoplanets
NASA’s Explorers Program FINESSE, proposed for launch in 2016, is the first mission dedicated to finding out what exoplanet atmospheres are made of and how our own solar system fits into the larger family of planets. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Supermassive Black Hole squashes Star formation
Galaxies with the most powerful, active, supermassive black holes at their cores produce fewer stars than galaxies with less ones. This is from new data from the Herschel Space Observatory. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Titan and Dione
Saturn’s third-largest moon Dione can be seen through the haze of its largest moon, Titan, in this view of the two posing before the planet and its rings from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft.
First Alien Planet In Habitable zone
This artist’s conception illustrates Kepler-22b, a planet known to comfortably circle in the habitable zone of a sun-like star. It is the first planet that NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed to orbit in a star’s habitable zone — the region around a star where liquid water, a requirement for life on Earth, could persist. The planet is 2.4 times the size of Earth, making it the smallest yet found to orbit in the middle of the habitable zone of a star like our sun.
