NASA may understand things related to aeronautics and space, but, sadly, they sure as heck don't understand HTML very well:
(a href="../../images/20100723_D2010_0723_D298_50.jpg" target="_blank" class="captionText")
(img src="../../images/20100723_D2010_0723_D298_50.jpg" width="120" height="90" ...
(a href="../../images/20100723_D2010_0723_D298_50.jpg")Full Size Image(/font)(/a) ...
and:
(a href="../../images/20100723_D2010_0723_D853_50.jpg" target="_blank" class="captionText")
(img src="../../images/20100723_D2010_0723_D853_50.jpg" width="120" height="90" ...
(a href="../../images/20100723_D2010_0723_D853_50.jpg")Full Size Image(/font)(/a) ...
and:
(a href="../../images/20100723_D2010_0723_D867_50.jpg" target="_blank" class="captionText")
(img src="../../images/20100723_D2010_0723_D867_50.jpg" width="120" height="90" ...
(a href="../../images/20100723_D2010_0723_D867_50.jpg")Full Size Image(/font)(/a) ...
Ummm... Houston? We have a problem here!
The "width" and "height" attributes of the HTML "img" tag *DOES NOT CHANGE THE SIZE OF THE IMAGE FILE*. It only changes the how that (image) FILE is /rendered/ on the screen.
The entire 2.31 MB (9.4 x 6.3 inches (23.8 x 15.9 cm) 2250 x 1500 Pixel), 1.57 MB (5.8 x 8.1 inches (14.8 x 20.6 cm) 1400 x 1942 Pixel), and 2.01 MB (8.8 x 5.8 inches (22.3 x 14.8 cm) 2104 x 1400 Pixel) files will /still/ be downloaded whenever the page is displayed.
They'll just get squeezed into a tiny 120 x 90 pixel area on the page, which sort of renders moot the whole point of providing thumbnails, doesn't it?
What /should/ be, at most, a several kilobyte web page is, thanks to the rocket scientist that wrote your page's HTML code, is now a 5.9+ MEGABYTE web page, that even with high speed DSL /does/ take a while to load.
I've seen this mistake made far too many times by amateur web authors. You'd think the folks at NASA would be smart enough to get it right.
I mean this isn't exactly rocket science we're talking about here!
But then maybe that's the problem? They only understand rocket science, so anything that /isn't/ rocket science completely baffles them??
Makes you wonder sometimes....