The planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, are called terrestrial because they have a compact, rocky surface like Earth’s terra firma. The terrestrial planets are the four innermost planets in the ...
Mastcam will be busy in this plan, acquiring a large 70-frame L0 mosaic covering the entire crater to assess its morphology, as well as stereo imaging on the western rim where more dark rocks are ...
The U.S. Postal Service has issued two new stamps featuring iconic images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. The stamps, issued Jan. 21, highlight a galaxy and a star cluster captured by Webb’s ...
Astronomers have uncovered a link between Neptune's shifting cloud abundance and the 11-year solar cycle, in which the waxing and waning of the Sun's entangled magnetic fields drives solar activity.
In March, a NASA-led research team announced that Jakobshavn Isbrae, Greenland’s fastest-flowing and thinning glacier over the past two decades, is now flowing more slowly, thickening and advancing ...