After Six Months In Space, ISS Crew Nine Touches Down
After traveling more than 78 million miles aboard the
International Space Station, Expedition 9 Commander Gennady Padalka
and Flight Engineer Mike Fincke returned to Earth Sunday.
A new NASA mission will scan the entire sky in infrared light in
search of nearby cool stars, planetary construction zones and the
brightest galaxies in the universe.
Encircled in purple stratospheric haze, Titan appears as a
softly glowing sphere in this colorized image taken one day after
Cassini's first flyby of that moon.