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![The top image shows radar data from Juice’s RIME antenna scanning along the Moon’s surface on 19 August 2024, with the horizontal axis indicating the time and the vertical axis the time taken for a ‘ping’ to bounce back to Juice (indicating the altitude) [ESA/Juice/RIME]. Brighter regions align with the Moon’s topography shown in the bottom image – a digital elevation model of the Moon’s surface [NASA/LRO/LOLA DEM], showing various craters and a white line indicating Juice's flyover path.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GbIWqYkXoAAIOeH.jpg?name=orig)
ALT The top image shows radar data from Juice’s RIME antenna scanning along the Moon’s surface on 19 August 2024, with the horizontal axis indicating the time and the vertical axis the time taken for a ‘ping’ to bounce back to Juice (indicating the altitude) [ESA/Juice/RIME]. Brighter regions align with the Moon’s topography shown in the bottom image – a digital elevation model of the Moon’s surface [NASA/LRO/LOLA DEM], showing various craters and a white line indicating Juice's flyover path.
ALT Technicians encapsulated NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft inside payload fairings on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024, in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The fairings will protect the spacecraft during launch as it begins its journey to explore Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa. The mission will help scientists determine if the moon could support life
ALT Wide low angle view of the two SpaceX Falcon payload fairing halves being brought together to encapsulate NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
ALT Graphic showing the track of the hurricane and damage photos. The storm roared up the East Coast at 50-60 MPH and made landfall on Long Island and Connecticut. Downtown Providence was submerged under 20 feet of water. Hurricane force winds were felt throughout New England with a gust to 186 MPH at Blue Hill Observatory. The hurricane was responsible for over 600 fatalities, most of which were in coastal Rhode Island.
ALT An image of Saturn taken by Voyager 2 shows the ringed planet set against the blackness of space. The planet is a sphere centered on the image, and the rings are angled from the top-left to the bottom-right. The planet is covered in white, red, purple, and yellow stripes, which are due to the fact that the image is a composite of three images taken with different filters. The rings appear as alternating stripes of black and yellow.
ALT An image of Neptune taken by Voyager 2 shows the deep blue planet set against the blackness of space. The planet is a sphere that takes up the majority of the image. It is primarily deep blue but has faint stripes of lighter and darker blue. A darker spot at the center of the planet surrounded by wispy white clouds is the "Great Dark Spot," a storm in Neptune's atmosphere.
ALT An artist’s concept shows the general locations of NASA’s two Voyager spacecraft at the time when Voyager 1 had crossed into interstellar space but while Voyager 2 was still within the solar system. The solar system is shown as a darker blue circle at the center of the image, and the Sun is represented by a yellow dot at the center. Around that circle is a larger gray-blue oval representing the heliosphere. The right edge of the oval isn't visible, as it extends off the right edge of the image. To the left of that oval is a yellow-orange curve, representing the solar wind that is interacting with the heliosphere as it travels throughout the galaxy. Models of the Voyager spacecraft are shown in their approximate locations, with Voyager 2 inside the gray-blue bubble and Voyager 1 just outside of it.
ALT Boeing's Starliner spacecraft that launched NASA's Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station is pictured docked to the Harmony module's forward port. This view is from a window on the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft docked to the port adjacent to the Starliner. (Credit: NASA)
ALT Boeing's Starliner spacecraft that launched NASA's Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station is pictured docked to the Harmony module's forward port. This view is from a window on the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft docked to the port adjacent to the Starliner. (Credit: NASA)