National Aeronautics and Space Administration

The surface and sky of Mars taken from Viking 1.

Photo of Mars taken July 21, 1976 - the day following the successful landing of Viking 1 on the planet Mars. The view is southeast from the Viking.

This is the first photograph ever taken on the surface of the planet Mars. It was obtained by Viking 1 just minutes after the spacecraft landed.

The satellite Nimbus II as it tracks Hurricane Beulah across the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico and into Texas for two weeks in mid-September 1967. This series of photographs is representative of pictures received by Apt. Stations located in the U.S., Mexico and Caribbean area as Nimbus II orbited over these regions daily.

The Rio Grande River in Texas taken by Nimbus II during Hurricane Beulah. Nimbus II is a NASA satellite.

Spacecraft engineers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California check the Mariner E spacecraft before shipment to Cape Kennedy, Florida for launching.

NASA Gemini V photo taken of the Great Bahama Banks. Depth of water on banks is 5 to 25 feet while in the tongue of the ocean (lower left) it is over one mile deep.

Gemini IV photo taken of the Sonora Desert of Mexico occupying the lower right hand part of the photo and a view of the mouth of the Colorado River on the left. Taken with a Hasselblad 500c, altitude of 110-120 nautical miles.

Photo showing use of aerial Ektachrome infrared film to detect insect infested timber in Oregon. Damaged trees appear blue-green and healthy trees appear red or pink.

James E. Webb (far right), Director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, is shown with unidentified couple at an unknown outdoor presentation; they are possibly an astronaut and his wife.