ALT Two panoramas taken in the morning and afternoon on Mars are combined to create a color-enhanced landscape image. Both panoramas of the area, known as "Marker Band Valley," were taken by the Curiosity Mars rover's navigation cameras. The detailed photo shows yellow coloring in the sky to mark the afternoon hours and it transitions to a blue color to indicate the morning color. The taupe-colored landscape shows a large, rocky hill to the right and smaller rocky hills in the distance toward the center and out into the horizon. To the left is a rocky outcrop and as we get closer to the foreground the area shows rover tracks along the sandy floor. To the bottom-right corner, the backend of the off-white, dusty rover is shown. Part of the rover's wheel can be seen as well as three of its antennas. The Radiation Assessment Detector, or RAD instrument, appears as a white circle in the lower right portion on the back of the rover.
ALT A plastic jar filled with peanuts sits on a table in a control room. The jar has a red lid and a custom blue and black label wrapped around it with the word “NISAR” in bold purple and blue letters. In the blurred background, computer monitors and an American flag are visible, lit by blue overhead lights.
ALT The NISAR satellite stands vertically inside a clean room at an Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) facility, partially encapsulated between two halves of a rocket fairing. The fairing is open on both sides, with reflective thermal panels visible on the interior. Technicians and equipment surround the spacecraft in preparation for launch.
ALT Illustration of a Voyager spacecraft in space, silhouetted against a colorful, star-filled background in shades of purple and blue. The spacecraft's large dish antenna and extended instrument arms are prominently visible, evoking its ongoing journey through interstellar space.
ALT The action word is lay. It takes a direct object. Laid is the form for its past tense and its past participle. Its present participle is laying. When lie means to make an untrue statement, the verb forms are lie, lied, lying. (LinkedIn's word count won't allow us to add the full text of this tip.)
ALT PRESENT OR FUTURE TENSES: Right: I will lay the book on the table. The prosecutor tried to lay the blame on him. Wrong: He lays on the beach all day. I will lay down. Right: He lies on the beach all day. I will lie down. The village lies beyond the hills. The answer lies in the stars.
ALT IN THE PAST TENSE: Right: I laid the book on the table. The prosecutor has laid the blame on him. Right: He lay on the beach all day. He has lain on the beach all day. I lay down. I have lain down. The secret lay in the fermentation process. (continued on next image)
ALT WITH THE PRESENT PARTICIPLE: Right: I am laying the book on the table. The prosecutor is laying the blame on him. Right: He is lying on the beach. I am lying down.
ALT Two panoramas taken in the morning and afternoon on Mars are combined to create a color-enhanced landscape image. Both panoramas of the area, known as "Marker Band Valley," were taken by the Curiosity Mars rover's navigation cameras. The detailed photo shows yellow coloring in the sky to mark the afternoon hours and it transitions to a blue color to indicate the morning color. The taupe-colored landscape shows a large, rocky hill to the right and smaller rocky hills in the distance toward the center and out into the horizon. To the left is a rocky outcrop and as we get closer to the foreground the area shows rover tracks along the sandy floor. To the bottom-right corner, the backend of the off-white, dusty rover is shown. Part of the rover's wheel can be seen as well as three of its antennas. The Radiation Assessment Detector, or RAD instrument, appears as a white circle in the lower right portion on the back of the rover.
ALT A view of rover tracks in the sandy Martian surface is shown in a photo taken by the Perseverance rover. The tracks go off into the hazy horizon and the image is tinted a beige color. A small piece of the rover is shown off to the lower right.
ALT Diagram showing the trajectories of NASA’s Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft through the solar system. Both spacecraft launched in 1977—Voyager 2 on August 20 and Voyager 1 on September 5. Their paths curve outward from the Sun, passing by several outer planets. Voyager 1 flew by Jupiter on March 5, 1979, and Saturn on November 12, 1980, before heading upward out of the solar system. Voyager 2 took a longer path, encountering Jupiter on July 9, 1979, Saturn on August 25, 1981, Uranus on January 24, 1986, and Neptune on August 25, 1989, before exiting the solar system in a different direction.
ALT The Curiosity rover sits on a rocky, sloped terrain on Mars, captured in a wide-angle selfie. The rover’s robotic arm is visible, and its body is covered in dust from years of exploration. The landscape stretches out behind it, featuring layered, reddish-brown rock formations, scattered boulders, and a soft, dusty sky. In the distance, gentle ridge lines and sedimentary slopes of Mount Sharp are visible under a pale Martian haze.
ALT Annotated image of NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars. The rover is centered in the frame on a rocky, reddish slope. Four labeled callouts highlight specific features: – "Dust Devil" points to a faint swirling column in the distant background. – "U.S. Flag" marks a small emblem on the rover’s upper body. – "Bell Island Borehole" highlights a drilled sample hole in the ground below the rover. – "Rover Tracks" points to faint wheel marks in the terrain behind the rover. The image is a high-resolution mosaic stitched from 59 individual photos.