NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, was capturing images of the Sun when it was “photobombed” by the moon during a lunar transit on 10/19/17. The space agency says the transit lasted about 45 minutes. The images were captured in extreme ultraviolet light. Since this kind of light is invisible to human eyes, the images were colorized in green so we could see them. (NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO/Joy Ng)
Astronaut Mark Vande Hei is pictured tethered to the outside of the U.S. Destiny laboratory module of the International Space Station during a spacewalk on 10/10/17. Vande Hei and other astronauts aboard the station conducted three spacewalks or extravehicular activity events throughout October 2017. (NASA)
With NASA’s Space shuttle Discovery as a backdrop, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence delivers his opening remarks during the National Space Council’s first meeting, 10/05/17 at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va. (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
This is a control room simulator used for training at the Callaway Energy Center, in Reform, Missouri on 10/19/17. Missouri’s only nuclear plant is currently shut down for scheduled maintenance while it undergoes a repair project that includes the first overhaul of its main generator since the plant began operating in 1984. (AP)
NASA engineers at the Stennis Space Center, in Mississippi, conducted a full test of a flight engine scheduled to help power the space agency’s new Space Launch System rocket during Stennis Founders Day Open House activities on 10/19/17. (NASA/SSC)
In a photo released 10/17/17, this is a giant fighting robot called Eagle Prime (MK3), built by MegaBots Inc., a Berkeley, California based company that builds fighting robots. (Greg Munson/MegaBots Inc. via Reuters)
On 10/27/17, astronauts onboard the International Space Station harvested and later feasted on three varieties of leafy greens from their veggie growth chamber. Growing vegetables in space is part of a series of experiments in the development of bioregenerative food production systems for not only the space station but also long-duration exploration missions. (NASA)
A solar car from Japan’s Tokai University car competes during the fourth race day of the 2017 World Solar Challenge near Kulgera, Australia on 10/11/17. 42 Solar cars from 21 different countries participate in a 3,000 km race from Darwin to Adelaide, Australia. (AP)
In a photo taken 10/22/17, near Malaga, Spain, a meteor is seen streaking past the constellation Canis Minor during the annual Orionid meteor showers. (Reuters)
A visitor to the Mission Mars exhibition presented by Russia’s Newton Park Interactive Museum of Science together with the children’s techno-park Quantorium, looks at ears of wheat grown by the hydroponic method without soil on 10/26/17. (Reuters)
Astronaut Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency is suspended over a mock-up of the International Space Station during a microgravity simulation in the Active Response Gravity Offload System at NASA’s Johnson Space Center on 10/24/17. To mimic the 90 minute day-to-night cycle astronauts experience in orbit, testing was conducted in both light and darkness. The space agency says the crew’s feedback will be used for future spacewalks. (NASA/Josh Valcarcel)
In a photo taken by Kyodo on 10/11/17, the Shinmoe volcano in Kirishima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan is seen after an eruption. (Kyodo via Reuters)
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