IMAGE: This artistic view of the Earth's interior shows hydrocarbons forming in the upper mantle and transported through deep faults to shallower depths in the Earth's crust.

17 July 2009 - Astronaut Christopher Cassidy, STS-127 mission specialist, on Endeavour's flight deck, uses a range finding device to determine distance between the shuttle and the International Space Station during rendezvous and docking activities on flight day 3. high res (1.0 M) low res (87 K)

The Nile River and its delta in Egypt and the Sinai Peninsula and part of the Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea are just a few of the geographic features recognizable in this photograph, taken on 17 Juy 2009 from an aft window on the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Endeavour. high res (0.8 M) low res (56 K)

Montira Satienpoch, a mechanical design engineer at Hamilton Sundstrand, talks about her work with Addy Overbeeke (Hamilton Sundstrand) at the HMP Research Station. They are testing a mock-up space suit they have interfaced with the Mars-1 Humvee Rover to simulate an air lock.

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During a ceremony July 31, senior NASA officials will present the National Federation of the Blind with two Louis Braille Bicentennial Silver Dollars that flew on space shuttle Atlantis's mission to the Hubble Space Telescope in May 2009. Marc Maurer, president of the National Federation of the Blind, will accept the coins on behalf of the organization. The ceremony will take place at 6 p.m. EDT at the Capitol Visitor Center in Washington.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken the sharpest visible-light picture yet of atmospheric debris from an object that collided with Jupiter on July 19. NASA scientists decided to interrupt the recently refurbished observatory's checkout and calibration to take the image of a new, expanding spot on the giant planet on July 23.