“95 Minutes Over Jupiter” was uploaded to Flickr

This sequence of color-enhanced images shows how quickly the viewing geometry changes for NASA’s Juno spacecraft as it swoops by Jupiter. via NASA ift.tt/2yMOui7
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95 Minutes Over Jupiter was taken on September 04, 2017 at 02:01PM

“This Week in NASA History: Second Crewed Skylab Mission Splashes Down – Sept. 25, 1973” was uploaded to Flickr

This week in 1973, the second crewed Skylab mission splashed down in the Pacific Ocean following a successful 59-day mission in the orbiting laboratory. via NASA ift.tt/2wWUaUt
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This Week in NASA History: Second Crewed Skylab Mission Splashes Down – Sept. 25, 1973 was taken on September 28, 2017 at 08:30AM

“Rift on Pine Island Glacier” was uploaded to Flickr

A new iceberg calved from Pine Island Glacier—one of the main outlets where ice from the interior of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet flows into the ocean. The Operational Land Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite captured this natural-color image on September 21, 2017, just before the break. via NASA ift.tt/2yGFCud
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Rift on Pine Island Glacier was taken on September 26, 2017 at 09:32AM

“OSIRIS-REx Views the Earth During Flyby” was uploaded to Flickr

A color composite image of Earth was taken on Sept. 22, 2017, by the MapCam camera on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. via NASA ift.tt/2xD7UHx
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OSIRIS-REx Views the Earth During Flyby was taken on September 26, 2017 at 07:55AM

“Phantom Limb” was uploaded to Flickr

The brightly lit limb of a crescent Enceladus looks ethereal against the blackness of space. This image is a composite of images taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on March 29, 2017, using filters that allow infrared, green, and ultraviolet light. via NASA ift.tt/2y49TX6
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Phantom Limb was taken on September 25, 2017 at 02:45AM

“Soaring Over Jupiter” was uploaded to Flickr

This striking image of Jupiter was captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft as it performed its eighth flyby of the gas giant planet. via NASA ift.tt/2xzDw1k
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Soaring Over Jupiter was taken on September 21, 2017 at 09:00AM

“X-plane Preliminary Design Model Tests Quiet Supersonic Technology” was uploaded to Flickr

Test Engineer Samantha O’Flaherty finalizes the set-up of the Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) Preliminary Design Model inside the 14- by- 22 Foot Subsonic Tunnel at NASA Langley Research Center. The QueSST Preliminary Design is the initial design stage of NASA’s planned Low-Boom Flight Demonstration experimental airplane, or X-plane. via NASA ift.tt/2w9GhD4
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X-plane Preliminary Design Model Tests Quiet Supersonic Technology was taken on September 15, 2017 at 09:03AM

“Suomi NPP Satellite Captures Thermal Image of Hurricane Maria” was uploaded to Flickr

The VIIRS instrument on NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite captured a thermal image of Hurricane Maria on Sept. 20 at 2:12 a.m. EDT. The image showed very cold cloud top temperatures in the powerful thunderstorms in Maria’s eyewall. Maria’s eye was just east of the American Virgin Islands, and its northwestern quadrant stretched over Puerto Rico. via NASA ift.tt/2xn5mNK
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Suomi NPP Satellite Captures Thermal Image of Hurricane Maria was taken on September 20, 2017 at 07:31AM

“Northern Lights Over Canada” was uploaded to Flickr

The spectacular aurora borealis, or the “northern lights,” over Canada is sighted from the International Space Station near the highest point of its orbital path. The station’s main solar arrays are seen in the left foreground. This photograph was taken by a member of the Expedition 53 crew aboard the station on Sept. 15, 2017. via NASA ift.tt/2xNXbeZ
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Northern Lights Over Canada was taken on September 15, 2017 at 03:53AM

“Long Way From Home” was uploaded to Flickr

This picture of a crescent-shaped Earth and Moon - the first of its kind ever taken by a spacecraft - was recorded Sept. 18, 1977, by NASA's Voyager 1 when it was 7.25 million miles (11.66 million kilometers) from Earth. The moon is at the top of the picture and beyond the Earth as viewed by Voyager. via NASA ift.tt/2fe9adV
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Long Way From Home was taken on September 18, 2017 at 05:31AM

“Cassini End of Mission” was uploaded to Flickr

Cassini program manager at JPL, Earl Maize, left, and spacecraft operations team manager for the Cassini mission at Saturn, Julie Webster embrace after the Cassini spacecraft plunged into Saturn, Friday, Sept. 15, 2017 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. via NASA ift.tt/2foCj37
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Cassini End of Mission was taken on September 15, 2017 at 12:57AM

“Orion Parachutes Measure Up in High Pressure Test” was uploaded to Flickr

Orion’s three main orange and white parachutes help a representative model of the spacecraft descend through sky above Arizona, where NASA engineers tested the parachute system on Sept. 13, 2017, at the U.S. Army Proving Ground in Yuma. NASA is qualifying Orion’s parachutes for missions with astronauts. via NASA ift.tt/2xBoGYR
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Orion Parachutes Measure Up in High Pressure Test was taken on September 14, 2017 at 05:30AM

“Dreamy Swirls on Saturn” was uploaded to Flickr

NASA's Cassini spacecraft gazed toward the northern hemisphere of Saturn to spy subtle, multi-hued bands in the clouds there. via NASA ift.tt/2jppZUF
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Dreamy Swirls on Saturn was taken on September 12, 2017 at 06:41AM

“So Far from Home” was uploaded to Flickr

With this view, Cassini captured one of its last looks at Saturn and its main rings from a distance. via NASA ift.tt/2eQeBMc
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So Far from Home was taken on August 10, 2017 at 06:32AM

“Geocolor Image of Hurricane Irma” was uploaded to Flickr

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 ift.tt/2wf8UxT
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Geocolor Image of Hurricane Irma was taken on September 08, 2017 at 08:30AM

“Staggering Structure” was uploaded to Flickr

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 ift.tt/2gKui8n
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Staggering Structure was taken on September 06, 2017 at 09:31AM

“Prospecting from Orbit” was uploaded to Flickr

The combination of morphological and topographic information from stereo images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. via NASA ift.tt/2xOVHxu
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Prospecting from Orbit was taken on September 06, 2017 at 06:31AM

“Voyager 1 Launches Aboard Titan III/Centaur” was uploaded to Flickr

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 ift.tt/2gJoEad
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Voyager 1 Launches Aboard Titan III/Centaur was taken on May 06, 2005 at 06:16AM

“Hubble's Megamaser Galaxy” was uploaded to Flickr

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 ift.tt/2epVgS0
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Hubble's Megamaser Galaxy was taken on November 07, 2016 at 12:17PM