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Instruments Overboard On July 26, 2014, scientists worked past dusk to prepare and deploy the optical instruments...
Fixing the "Fish" On July 19, 2014, Wayne Slade of Sequoia Scientific, and Allen Milligan of Oregon State...
Storm in the Sargasso Sea Scientist aboard the R/V Endeavor in the Sargasso Sea put their research on hold on July...
Catnap at Sea Ali Chase of the University of Maine, and Courtney Kearney of the Naval Research Laboratory, caught a...
Seaweed and Light A type of seaweed called Sargassum, common in the Sargasso Sea, floats by an instrument deployed...
What's in the Water? Robert Foster, of the City College of New York, filters seawater on July 23, 2414, for...
Sunset Over the Gulf of Maine On July 20, 2013, scientists at sea with NASA's SABOR experiment witnessed a...
ProVision Technologies, a NASA research partnership center at Sternis Space Center in Mississippi, has developed a...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Systems Research Aircraft (SRA), a highly modified F-18 jet...
NASA research engineer Jonathan Lopez secures a Compact Fiber Optic Sensing System unit, also known as a FOSS Rocket...
NASA research engineer Jonathan Lopez works on preparing a Compact Fiber Optic Sensing System unit, also known as a...
Bolts are torqued on a Compact Fiber Optic Sensing System unit, also known as a FOSS Rocket Box, which was developed...
Jonathan Lopez works on a hypersonic Fiber Optic Sensing System at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in...
Jonathan Lopez and Allen Parker confer on the hypersonic Fiber Optic Sensor System at NASA’s Armstrong Flight...
Jonathan Lopez prepares the hypersonic Fiber Optic Sensing System for vibration tests in the Environmental...
Jonathan Lopez prepares the hypersonic Fiber Optic Sensing System for vibration tests in the Environmental...
Jonathan Lopez and Nathan Rick prepare the hypersonic Fiber Optic Sensing System for vibration tests in the...
A tank is used in CryoFILL experiments to liquefy oxygen at minus 290 degrees Fahrenheit as it could be done on the...
A tank is used in CryoFILL experiments to liquefy oxygen at minus 290 degrees Fahrenheit as it could be done on the...
A tank is used in CryoFILL experiments to liquefy oxygen at minus 290 degrees Fahrenheit as it could be done on the...
A tank is used in CryoFILL experiments to liquefy oxygen at minus 290 degrees Fahrenheit as it could be done on the...
Allen Parker, Mark Hagiwara, Paul Bean, Patrick Chan, Jonathan Lopez (seated), and Frank Pena comprise the Fiber...
From left, April Torres and Karen Estes watch incoming data from vibration tests on the hypersonic Fiber Optic...
April Torres, from left, Cryss Punteney, and Karen Estes watch as data flows from the hypersonic Fiber Optic Sensing...