#PPOD: NASA’s LRO – the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter – spacecraft imaged the Chandrayaan-3 landing site on the #Moon’s surface. The ISRO's Chandrayaan-3 touched down on the Moon on Aug. 23, 2023. The Chandrayaan-3 landing site is located about 600 kilometers from the Moon’s South Pole. The bright halo around the vehicle resulted from the rocket plume interacting with the fine-grained regolith (soil). Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Arizona State University
#PPOD: This photo is an approximate true color image of comet 67P taken by the Rosetta spacecraft's OSIRIS Narrow Angle Camera on March 17, 2015. This image is a four-frame mosaic, with each color frame imaged through VIS_BLUE, VIS_GREEN, and VIS_RED filters. At the time this image was taken, Rosetta was located roughly 82 km from the comet's center. Credit: ESA / Rosetta / MPS for OSIRIS Team (MPS / UPD / LAM / IAA / SSO / INTA / UPM / DASP / IDA) / Justin Cowart
This false-color image was created from raw data taken using the #JunoCam onboard NASA's Juno spacecraft orbiting #Jupiter and features a northern circumpolar cyclone in artistically enhanced detail. Taken during perijove - closest approach to Jupiter - number 46.
#PPOD: Three of Saturn's moons -- Tethys, Enceladus, and Mimas -- are captured in this group photo from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
Tethys (1,062 kilometers across) appears above the rings, while Enceladus (504 kilometers across) sits just below the center. Mimas (396 kilometers across) hangs below and off to the left of Enceladus.
The image is a color-composite from calibrated raw Cassini image data.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/Cassini Imaging Team/Jason Major
This image, captured by the Landing Imager Camera onboard the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) Chandrayaan-3 lander, shows the lunar surface after the craft successfully touched down on the Moon. The photo also shows one leg of the lander and its accompanying shadow.
This is NGC 4569, aka Messier 90, an intermediate spiral galaxy located 60 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. The image is a color-composite from images captured with Hubble's WFC3 instrument on Dec. 12, 2019.
This image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows boulders that were ejected from the asteroid Dimorphos after the DART spacecraft slammed into it in September 2022. The bright object with a tail is Dimorphos, and the tiny white dots clustered around it are boulders ranging in size from 1 to 6.7 meters in diameter.
This view of a crescent Earth as seen beyond the limb of the Moon was captured from inside the Apollo 16 CSM "Casper" in lunar orbit on April 24, 1972. This version is cropped and processed from NASA image # AS16-122-19564.
This surface image was taken with Cassini's narrow-angle camera during a very close flyby of Enceladus on Aug. 11, 2008. Cairo Sulcus is shown crossing the upper left portion of the image. An unnamed fracture curves around the lower right corner. This view shows an area about 20 kilometers across.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI and Cassini Imaging Team
#PPOD: Cataloged as NGC 3132, the Southern Ring Nebula is a planetary nebula -- the death shroud of a dying sun-like star some 2,500 light-years from Earth. Composed of gas and dust the stunning cosmic landscape is nearly half a light-year in diameter, explored in unprecedented detail by the JWST.
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, and the Webb ERO Production Team
#PPOD: On Feb. 12, 1984, astronaut Bruce McCandless, ventured further away from the confines and safety of his ship than any previous astronaut had ever been. This space first was made possible by a nitrogen jet propelled backpack, previously known at NASA as the Manned Manuevering Unit or MMU. Credit: NASA
Spiral galaxy M66, an intermediate spiral galaxy in the southern, equatorial half of Leo is a member of a small group of galaxies that includes M65 and NGC 3628, known as the Leo Triplet or the M66 Group. It is located 35.88 million light-years away from us.
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, JWST, MIRI, NIRCam
Processing: Robert Eder
#PPOD: United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Alneyadi captured this image of the city lights of Baghdad, Iraq, and the Tigris River on July 18, 2023, as the International Space Station orbited 261 miles above the Middle Eastern nation. Since the station became operational in November 2000, crew members have produced hundreds of thousands of images of the land, oceans, and atmosphere of Earth, and even of the Moon through Crew Earth Observations. Credit: NASA
In April 2022, NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera system to shoot video of Phobos, one of Mars’ two moons, eclipsing the Sun, as seen in one frame of the video, pictured here.
#PPOD: The JWST discovers a cosmic question mark mirroring the SETI Institute logo while snapping highly detailed infrared images of actively forming stars Herbig-Haro 46/47, located 1,470 light-years from Earth in the Vela Constellation. The question mark-shaped object is believed to be a distant galaxy or potentially interacting galaxies. The object's red color in the JWST image indicates that it is quite distant.
Credit: NASA/ESA/CAS/STScI
Caption: via the Space Academy
#PPOD: Pictured, behind this darker cloud, is a pileus iridescent cloud, a group of water droplets that have a uniformly similar size and so together diffract different colors of sunlight by different amounts. T Also captured were unusual cloud ripples above the pileus cloud. The formation of a rare pileus cloud capping a common cumulus cloud is an indication that the lower cloud is expanding upward and might well develop into a storm. Credit: Jiaqi Sun
#PPOD: This image features a distant and pulsating red giant star. Situated 1200 light-years away in the constellation of Sculptor, R Sculptoris is something known as a carbon-rich asymptotic giant branch (AGB) star, meaning that it is nearing the end of its life. At this stage, low- and intermediate-mass stars cool off, create extended atmospheres, and lose a lot of their mass — they are on their way to becoming spectacular planetary nebulae. Credit: ESO/M. Wittkowski
Taken at Lake Wanaka, New Zealand, this beautiful image of the Milky Way's core included a surprise guest star - red sprites! These large-scale electrical discharges occur at about 50-90 km in altitude, in the Earth's mesosphere.
Enjoy NASA's Curiosity rover's view of Gale crater about two years ago. This site has such incredibly beautiful landscapes, but we've gone portrait mode for this one. Notice the rim of the crater in the background. The colors in this image are natural.
Expanded-color image of Pluto's largest moon #Charon as imaged by #NASA's New Horizons spacecraft in red, blue, and infrared wavelengths on July 14, 2015.