Saturn's Streaming Hexagon

Saturn's Streaming Hexagon
This colorful view from NASA's Cassini mission, known as "the hexagon," is the highest-resolution view of the unique six-sided jet stream at Saturn's north pole. (source: NASA)


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Earth from Space

NOAA's GOES-East satellite captured this stunning view of the Americas on Earth Day, April 22, 2014

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Galaxy Andromeda, M31

Cool Andromeda
In this new view of the Andromeda, also known as M31, galaxy from the Herschel space observatory, cool lanes of forming stars are revealed in the finest detail yet. (source: NASA)

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Wake Up Long-Dormant Spacecraft ISEE-3

ISEE-3 image (source: NASA)

The third International Solar-Environment Explorer (ISEE-3) was the first spacecraft to monitor solar wind, while it was perched in orbit between the Sun and the Earth.

Everyone But NASA Wants To Wake Up This Long-Dormant Spacecraft | Motherboard: "...In 1997, the ICE mission operations were terminated, although the spacecraft's on-board instrumentation was still working and there was still fuel available. NASA's Deep Space Network checked in with the ISEE-3 back in 2008, and its spacecraft's transmitter remains on, but that's all that's really known at this point. It had a second life as a comet hunter, though, so why not a third? "It's the most cost-effective spacecraft we ever had and I'd like to make it even more cost-effective. It can do more missions," said Bob Farquhar, the "orbit maestro" who originally turned the ISEE-3 into the ICE and got America to a comet before any other country...."


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