Space

2016: One-Year Mission In Space

Elaine Hannah
First Posted: Dec 20, 2016 03:00 AM EST

NASA and other space agencies pursue their historic missions to conquer the outer space. It has been a year of successful feats of space research and explorations.

The scientists, astronomers and spacecraft have found more findings and sightings that look on other planets beyond Earth and unexplainable objects in the universe in the year 2016. These include searching for possible extraterrestrial life on the Red Planet and preparing for the future voyage of humans to Mars.

UPI shared the following photos of the cosmos and space explorations that occurred in the year 2016. Get a glimpse of some of the man's fearless space exploration and the awe-inspiring photos of the universe.

NASA's Hubble telescope captured vivid auroras on the planet Jupiter on June 30, 2016. It was taken as NASA's Juno spacecraft approached and entered into orbit around the gas giant planet Jupiter.

NASA's IceBridge, an airborne survey of polar ice, crossed the Greenland and captured an image of Fjord of Violin Glacier on May 19, 2016.

This is an image of the Red Spider Nebula, which is a two-lobed nebula that is about 3,000 lightyears away in the constellation of Sagittarius. It is located near the heart of the Milky Way.

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover investigated the "Marimba" on lower Mount Sharp. The image was taken on Aug. 2, 2016.

NASA's astronauts, Kate Rubins and Jeff Williams, conducted a spacewalk to install a new docking port that could be used for the arrival of the future U.S. commercial crew spacecraft on Aug. 19, 2016.

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