The NanoRacks-Remove Debris satellite successfully deployed a net to capture a nanosatellite that simulates debris.

European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Alexander Gerst took this image of Hurricane Florence on Sept. 12, 2018, 400 kilometers high from the International Space Station.

On Sept. 9, 2018, Florence, Isaac and Helene were all churning up the North Atlantic.

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) centered this photograph on Belle Isle, an island in the Detroit River.

The Copernicus Sentinel-3A satellite took the temperature at the top of Hurricane Lane as it headed toward Hawaii's Big Island on Aug. 22, 2018.

The West Coast of the United States is shrouded in smoke from the 110 large fires (this does not include smaller fires within each complex of fires) that have erupted across the region during this fire season.

A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket launched NASA's Parker Solar Probe on Aug. 12, 2018, from Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.

The Columbia Glacier descends from an ice field 10,000 feet (3,050 meters) above sea level, down the flanks of the Chugach Mountains, and into a narrow inlet that leads into Prince William Sound in southeastern Alaska.

Europe's next four Galileo satellites lifted off on July 25, 2018, from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana atop an Ariane 5 launcher.

Regardless the amount of winter ice cover, the waters off the Alaskan coast usually come alive each spring with blooms of phytoplankton.