IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This artifact is one of several ...

NASA’s Explorer 6 satellite was launched Aug. 7, 1959, from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The spacecraft’s mission was to study Earth’s magnetic fields and radiation, as well as cosmic rays, geomagnetism, ...

Click to open image viewer. This is a full-scale reconstructed model of the Explorer 10 satellite. Explorer 10 was designed to map the interplanetary magnetic field using three different magnetometers ...

On March 26, 1958, the United States launched its third satellite into space. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] Explorer 3 was almost identical to Explorer 1, which was the first ...