Mid-20th Century Science in Action

Images depicting significant scientific advancements including space exploration, chemistry labs, and innovative projects in the 1950s and 1960s.

Deep sea amphipod (Cystisoma) swimming, a deep sea species from the Mesopelagic zone. Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Body is totally transparent and the redness in the eye is the visual pigment in the retina.

Artemis I Liftoff. A half Moon illuminates the sky after the launch of NASAs Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft on Artemis I from Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Nov. 16, 2022. Liftoff was at 1:47 a.m. EST. The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I will provide a foundation for human deep space exploration and demonstrate our commitment and capability to extend human presence to the Moon and beyond. The primary goal of Artemis I is to thoroughly test the integrated systems before crewed missions by operating the spacecraft in a deep space environment, testing Orions heat shield, and recovering the crew module after reentry, descent, and splashdown.

Jupiter, illustration

Waxing gibbous Moon, illustration

The Galilean satellites surrounding Jupiter. Io, Ganymede, Europa and Callisto.

A preview animation of the Super Moon Lunar Eclipse On the evening of September 27, 2015 in the Americas (early morning on September 28 in Europe and most of Africa), the Moon enters the Earths shadow, creating a total lunar eclipse, the last of four visible in the Western Hemisphere in a span of 18 months. This animation shows the changing appearance of the Moon as it travels into and out of the Earths shadow. b a href= http //www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/features/MP_Photo_Guidelines.html rel= nofollow NASA image use policy. /a /b b a href= http //www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/home/index.html rel= nofollow NASA Goddard Space Flight Center /a /b enables NASAs mission through four scientific endeavors Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASAs accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agencys mission. b Follow us on a href= http //twitter.com/NASAGoddardPix rel= nofollow Twitte

This is the clearest view yet of the distant planet Pluto and its moon, Charon, as revealed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The image was taken by the European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera on February 21, 1994.

NASA's twin MarCO spacecraft are scheduled to make a flyby of Mars on Nov. 26. On Nov. 24, a wide-angle camera on MarCO-B took this picture of the Red Planet, which appears as a small, grey dot in the lower left quadrant of the image. On the right side of the image is the spacecraft's high-gain antenna. On the left side is the high-gain antenna feed, as well as part of the spacecraft's thermal blanket. MarCO-B was approximately 310,000 miles (500,000 km) away from Mars at the time. Mars is actually only about 3 pixels wide in this image, but because of blurring it appears larger. An annotated version of this image notes the location of Mars, the high-gain antenna, high-gain antenna feed and thermal blanket. Each about the size of a briefcase, the MarCO spacecraft are CubeSats, or small satellites built from standardized units that are 4 inches (10 cm) square. (Each MarCO satellite consists of six CubeSat units.) The MarCOs are the first CubeSats to reach deep space, and were the first

This image was obtained by NASA's Cassini radar instrument during a flyby on Feb. 7, 2009. The radar antenna was pointing toward Titan at an altitude of 960 kilometers (597 miles) during the closest approach.

Microscope virus cell. Pandemic bacteria pathogen medical health risk, Corona COVID-19 Alert SOS, immunology, virology, epidemiology concept. 3D rendering.

Engraving depicting Alphonse Pénaud's mechanical bird. Alphonse Pénaud (1850-1880) a French pioneer of aviation design and engineering. Dated 19th century

Microscope virus cell. Pandemic bacteria pathogen medical health risk, Corona COVID-19 Alert SOS, immunology, virology, epidemiology concept. 3D rendering.

Microscope virus cell. Pandemic bacteria pathogen medical health risk, Corona COVID-19 Alert SOS, immunology, virology, epidemiology concept. 3D rendering.

This image of Rabe Crater and the region around it was collected using the IR (infrared) camera. The brighter the material, the warmer the surface is, as shown in this view captured by NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft.

Microscope virus cell. Pandemic bacteria pathogen medical health risk, Corona COVID-19 Alert SOS, immunology, virology, epidemiology concept. 3D rendering.

Ejecta Blanket

Toward the right side of this enhanced-color scene is a broad notch in the crest of the western rim of Endeavour Crater. Wheel tracks in that area were left by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity as it observed Perseverance Valley from above in the spring of 2017. The valley is a major destination for the rover's extended mission. It descends out of sight on the inner slope of the rim, extending down and eastward from that notch. Opportunity's panoramic camera (Pancam) took the component images for this view from a position outside the crater during the span of June 7 to June 19, 2017, sols 4753 to 4765 of the rover's work on Mars. This scene includes features that might have been ancient channels from water, ice or wind moving toward the notch in the rim, which might have been a spillway. Perseverance Valley, just on the other side, was likely carved by action of some fluid, such as water, water-lubricated debris, or wind. The mission is investigating to learn more about that pr

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