NASA's most impressive moments of 2016

The US Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) selected the most impressive photographs of the cosmic discovery achievements achieved in the past year.

The second and final test of the Space Launching System (SLS) in Utah, Western America on June 28, 2016.SLS provides 75% of the necessary thrust for spacecraft to escape Earth's attraction, the first step for NASA's Mars discovery journey.

The Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft conducted the 48th and 49th expeditions at Baikonur launch ground on July 7.On board were astronauts Kate Rubins of NASA, Russian Anatoly Ivanishin and Takuya Onishi of the Japanese Space Exploration Agency (JAXA).

The image of Mercury is seen in the lower left corner as it passes through the Sun's surface on May 9.This phenomenon occurred 13 times in a century, most recently in 2006.

The Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft launched from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, with NASA Whitson astronauts, Oleg Novitskiy of Russia and Thomas Pesquet from the European Aeronautics Agency (ESA) on November 18, 2016. .

Images taken in a 30-second exposure mode on fish-eye lenses show a comet trail in the Perseid meteor shower every year.Photo taken on August 12, 2016 at Spruce Knob, West Virginia, USA.

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly was removed from the Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft a few minutes after Russian colleagues Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) controlled the ship landing in an area. far away from the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on March 2, 2016.

This photo was assembled from 10 frames, showing the image of the International Space Station (ISS) with 6 astronauts flying over the Sun at 8km / s on December 17.On the station were NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Peggy Whitson, Andrey Borisenko, Sergey Ryzhikov, and Oleg Novitskiy of Russia and Thomas Pesquet of ESA.

American astronaut Jeff Williams, left, Russian astronaut Alexey Ovchinin, between, and astronaut Oleg Skripochka also of Russia in Soyuz spacecraft TMA-20M a few minutes after the ship landed in the outback near Zhezkazgan town , Kazakhstan on September 7.

Protective clothing for take-off and landing for astronauts and astronauts at the Astronaut Training Center Gagarin (GCTC), located in Star City, Russia.Photo taken on February 25, 2016.

Super Moon was seen after the Soyuz rocket at the launch site of Baikonur, Kazakhstan on November 14.

The train carrying engine Soyuz missiles arrived at Baikonur, Kazakhstan on July 4.

NASA ATK Antares rocket in Virginia on October 13.