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Geocolor Image of Hurricane Irma The NOAA-NASA satellite GOES-16 captured this geocolor image of Hurricane Irma passing the eastern end of Cuba at about 8:00 a.m. EDT, Sept. 8, 2017. Created by NOAA’s partners at the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, the experimental imagery enhancement displays geostationary satellite data in different ways for day or night. via NASA http://ift.tt/2wf8UxT

Staggering Structure This view from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows a wave structure in Saturn’s rings known as the Janus 2:1 spiral density wave. via NASA http://ift.tt/2gKui8n

Prospecting from Orbit The combination of morphological and topographic information from stereo images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. via NASA http://ift.tt/2xOVHxu

Expedition 53 Qualification Exams Expedition 53 crew members: Joe Acaba of NASA, left, Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos, center, and Mark Vande Hei of NASA answer questions from the press outside the Soyuz simulator ahead of their Soyuz qualification exams, Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017 at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia. via NASA http://ift.tt/2wHF3zZ

Voyager 1 Launches Aboard Titan III/Centaur The Voyager 1 aboard the Titan III/Centaur lifted off on September 5, 1977, joining its sister spacecraft, the Voyager 2, on a mission to the outer planets. via NASA http://ift.tt/2gJoEad

Hubble’s Megamaser Galaxy MCG+01-38-005 (below) is a special kind of megamaser; the galaxy’s active galactic nucleus pumps out huge amounts of energy, stimulating clouds of surrounding water. via NASA http://ift.tt/2epVgS0

NASA Concludes Summer of Testing with Fifth Flight Controller Hot Fire NASA engineers closed a summer of successful hot fire testing Aug. 30 for flight controllers on RS-25 engines that will help power the new Space Launch System (SLS) rocket being built to carry astronauts to deep-space destinations, including Mars. via NASA http://ift.tt/2xyYAm6

NASA’s IceBridge Surveys Glaciers in Northeast Greenland NASA’s Operation IceBridge is flying its summer Arctic land ice campaign in Greenland, continuing its measurements of the Greenland Ice Sheet and its outlet glaciers. This photograph from the mission was taken on Aug. 29, 2017, from 28,000 feet, looking north while surveying Nioghalvfjerdsbrae (79 N) Glacier in northeast Greenland. via NASA http://ift.tt/2x5KGKi

Aug. 29, 1965 – Gemini V Crew Returns to Earth Gemini V command pilot Gordon Cooper (right) and Charles „Pete“ Conrad, pilot, walk across the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Lake Champlain following their spacecraft’s recovery from the ocean on Aug. 29, 1965. The eight-day Gemini V endurance mission doubled America’s spaceflight record set two months earlier. via NASA http://ift.tt/2x1awPF

Supersonic Flight Campaign Continues at Kennedy Space Center A NASA F-18 jet takes off from the agency’s Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 23, 2017. The F-18 jets fly at supersonic speeds while agency researchers measure the effects of low-altitude turbulence caused by sonic booms, part of NASA’s Sonic Booms in Atmospheric Turbulence, or SonicBAT II Program. via NASA http://ift.tt/2xGKj62