An astronaut’s October 2024 photograph shows Milton spread beneath the curve of Earth. The wide view tells a different story from a close-up of a storm’s eye.
This June 2019 photograph shows Raikoke’s eruption column spreading above the clouds. Its dramatic shape records one moment in an eruption tracked across the North Pacific.
A sound-triggered camera caught an airborne frog in a single frame during LADEE’s 2013 launch. NASA confirmed the animal was real; its fate was uncertain.
The sample reached Earth in 2023, but opening the remaining collector took custom tools. The opened head finally revealed this ring of asteroid material.
NASA Johnson Space Center curation laboratory, USA · Published 2024-01-19; precise capture date unspecified. Photo: NASA/Erika Blumenfeld & Joseph Aebersold · NASA editorial media-use permission. NASA precision photograph uses focus stacking. NASA-supplied 2048px rendition; no further editing by us. Full-resolution source preserved separately.
Two tiny fruits disappeared during an astronaut’s plant experiment. When they turned up, they settled a running crew joke—and looked like this. A look back at the 2023 discovery.
Two recovered XROOTS tomatoes aboard the International Space Station; image ISS070E036527, published in the December14,2023 update. Photo: NASA · NASA editorial media usage. Original image, unchanged.
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