EditorialA detail of an image captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft during a flyby on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022, shows the complex, ice-covered surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/SWRI/MSSS via The New York Times)
EditorialA detail of an image captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft during a flyby on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022, shows the complex, ice-covered surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/SWRI/MSSS via The New York Times)
EditorialAn undated composite image provided by NASA shows the space agency’s Perseverance rover with its robotic arm extended over an outcrop at Skinner Ridge in the Jezero crater on Mars. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS via The New York Times)
EditorialAn artist’s concept of various vehicles associated with a return of samples from Mars to Earth, including, clockwise from far left: a helicopter, a Mars-Earth return orbiter, a Mars ascent vehicle, a retrieval lander and the Perseverance rover. (NASA/ESA/JPL-Caltech via The New York Times)
EditorialImages provided by NASA show Uranus, left, and Neptune during flybys of NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft in the 1980s. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/B. Jónsson via The New York Times)
EditorialIn an image provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech shows the Mars helicopter Ingenuity showing the backshell of Perseverance’s landing capsule, its supersonic parachute and the related debris field on April 19, 2022. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via The New York Times)
EditorialIn an image provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech shows the Mars helicopter Ingenuity showing the backshell of Perseverance’s landing capsule, its supersonic parachute and the related debris field on April 19, 2022. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via The New York Times)
EditorialAn undated image provided by NASA shows an artist?s conception of seven rocky exoplanets 40 light-years from Earth that make up the TRAPPIST-1 system. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via The New York Times)
EditorialAn undated image provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech shows part of the asteroid 2022 EB5’s predicted orbit around the sun before it entered Earth’s atmosphere and exploded above the east coast of Greenland on March 11. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via The New York Times)
EditorialAn undated photo provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS shows a selfie taken by the the space agency’s Perseverance rover over an area where the craft drilled rock samples. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS via The New York Times)
EditorialThe asteroid Apophis recorded by radio antennas at the Deep Space Network’s Goldstone complex in California and the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia. (NASA/JPL-Caltech and NSF/AUI/GBO via The New York Times)
EditorialAn undated photo provided by NASA/JPL shows Jupiter's stormy northern hemisphere as captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft as it performed a close pass of the gas giant planet. Juno took the four images used to produce this color-enhanced view on May 29, 2019. (NASA/JPL-CALTECH/SWRI/MSSS/KEVIN M. GILL via the New York Times)
EditorialThe Perseverance rover’s first cored sample of Mars rock is visible inside a titanium sample collection tube. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via The New York Times)
EditorialThe first Mars rocks collected by the Perseverance rover, which NASA hopes will be sent back to Earth for study in the next decade. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU via The New York Times)
EditorialA photo provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS shows an image of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede obtained by the Juno spacecraft during its flyby of the icy moon on Monday, June 7, 2021. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS via The New York Times)
EditorialA photo provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS shows an image of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede obtained by the Juno spacecraft during its flyby of the icy moon on Monday, June 7, 2021. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS via The New York Times)
EditorialAn image from video provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech shows the fourth flight of NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter on Mars on April 30, 2021, captured by a camera on the Perseverance rover. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via The New York Times)
EditorialAn image from video provide by NASA/JPL-Caltech, during its third flight on Sunday, April 25, 2021, when NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity recorded a series of images of its silhouette. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via The New York Times)
EditorialNASA’s Perseverance rover photographed the experimental helicopter known as Ingenuity during the vehicle’s third flight on Mars on Sunday, April 25, 2021. It is the small black dot near the center of the lower hill. (Nasa/JPL-Caltech via The New York Times)
EditorialAn image provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech/Asu that was recorded by the Ingenuity helicopter of it’s own shadow over the surface of Mars as it conducts its first short flight on Monday, April 19, 2021. (NASA JPL-Caltech/Asu/ via The New York Times)