The Jet Propulsion Laboratory advances science and discovery through NASA robotic missions exploring Earth, the solar system, and the universe.
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ALT A rocket lifts off on a pillar of fire as a bird flies by, the scene reflected in the still waters of a lake.
ALT A rocket lifts off on a pillar of fire
ALT Voyager Technologies’ Griffin-1 lunar lander is suspended in front of the open 25-Foot Space Simulator at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as technicians in clean-room garments guide and position the spacecraft. The large thermal vacuum chamber rises behind the lander, with an American flag hanging beside the entrance. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
ALT Voyager Technologies’ Griffin-1 lunar lander is shown during spin testing on a special table at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The spacecraft appears motion-blurred as it rotates, while several technicians in clean-room garments work nearby. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
ALT This oval map shows the whole sky as observed by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS. The background is a deep blue-gray speckled with countless tiny dots and streaks. The plane of our Milky Way galaxy appears as a large, wispy pale arc sweeping around the center of the image. Pink dots speckle the map, marking the locations of over 1,000 confirmed exoplanets. A bright patch along the bottom edge just left of center shows the location of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. A few black lines and blocks are visible in the image, mostly on the left side of the map, indicating regions TESS has not yet imaged. This image is watermarked with “Credit: NASA/MIT/TESS and Nicole Schanche (University of Maryland College Park).”
ALT A desert landscape on Mars, seen from beneath the rover, with its robotic "hand" visible along with and a wheel with tracks in the dirt.
ALT A field of light-toned rocks in reddish soil.
ALT A thin waning crescent Moon.
ALT A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Dragon spacecraft on top is seen at sunset on the launch pad. The sky is mostly covered with different kinds of clouds: thick, fluffy ones at the bottom and wider, more spread out ones in the rest of the sky. The Sun's light turns the bottom right portion of the sky orange.
ALT NASA's SpaceX Crew-13 mission members CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk, left, NASA astronauts Luke Delaney, middle left, and Jessica Watkins, middle right, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov, right, wave to a crowd (not seen) after walking out of a building.
ALT A Crew-13 member waves out of a black Tesla's open window as they proceed to the launch pad. The car's license plate reads "Lucky 13."
ALT A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft launches. There is a bright column of fire under the rocket as it moves upward. Clouds of vapor spread out below the rocket, almost blending into the similarly shaped clouds in the sky.
