Explorer Amundsen's ship returns to Norway after 100 years
The ship used by Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen finally returned home Monday, completing its journey around the North Pole 100 years after her chaotic expedition started.
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The latest from Juno as Jupiter appears bright in the night sky
Now is a great time to see Jupiter in the night sky, as the planet reaches opposition on Wednesday, May 9.
NASA's InSight mission will look deep into the heart of Mars for clues about its past
For decades, earthlings have dispatched spacecraft to Mars to study the planet's dusty surface and its thin atmosphere. Now NASA is sending a lander to the red planet to look deep into its heart.
NASA's Juno mission provides infrared tour of Jupiter's north pole
Scientists working on NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter shared a 3-D infrared movie depicting densely packed cyclones and anticyclones that permeate the planet's polar regions, and the first detailed view of a dynamo, or engine, ...
Geometric clusters of cyclones churn over Jupiter's poles
Jupiter's poles are blanketed by geometric clusters of cyclones and its atmosphere is deeper than scientists suspected.
Image: The case of the Martian boulder piles
This image was originally meant to track the movement of sand dunes near the North Pole of Mars, but what's on the ground in between the dunes is just as interesting!
The IMAGE satellite's stunning return
One-sixty-six, where are you? Oh, there you are.
Mars upside down
Which way is up in space? Planets are usually shown with the north pole at the top and the south pole at the bottom. In this remarkable image taken by ESA's Mars Express, the Red Planet is seen with north at the bottom, and ...
Image: Jupiter blues
The Juno spacecraft captured this image when the spacecraft was only 11,747 miles (18,906 kilometers) from the tops of Jupiter's clouds—that's roughly as far as the distance between New York City and Perth, Australia. The ...
95 minutes over Jupiter
This sequence of color-enhanced images shows how quickly the viewing geometry changes for NASA's Juno spacecraft as it swoops by Jupiter. The images were obtained by JunoCam.
