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NASA’s BARREL Mission Launches 20 Balloons

Arrival of the RRS Ernest Shackleton near Halley Research Station in Antarctica. The Shackleton is the regular...

Sea Level Rise Accelerates Over Time

Global sea level rise is accelerating incrementally over time rather than increasing at a steady rate, as previously...

NASA’s BARREL Mission Launches 20 Balloons

The BARREL cargo on its four-hour journey from the supply ship to the research station. Credit: NASA --- In...

STS-121 Space Shuttle Processing Update

NASA Associate Administrator for Space Operations William Gerstenmaier, right, look on as Space Shuttle Program...

NASA’s BARREL Mission Launches 20 Balloons

Pumping helium into the first BARREL balloon to launch from Halley Research Satation. Credit: NASA --- In Antarctica...

NASA’s BARREL Mission Launches 20 Balloons

A crane lowers two BARREL balloon payloads onto the platform at Halley Research Station in Antarctica. Credit: NASA...

NASA’s BARREL Mission Launches 20 Balloons

The BARREL team at the SANAE IV research station celebrates their final launch in the Antarctica sun. Credit: NASA...

NASA's Aqua Satellite Sees a Northeastern Snowy Blanket

The storm system that moved through the northeastern U.S. dropped large snowfall totals up to a foot in southern New...

Tour of NASA Moon Rover South Pole Landing Site

In 2023, NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, will land near the western edge of the...

NASA’s BARREL Mission Launches 20 Balloons

An emperor penguin waddles away on Christmas morning in Antarctica. On Christmas day, the BARREL team visited a...

NASA’s BARREL Mission Launches 20 Balloons

A BARREL balloon floats into the sky as it is partially filled. When fully inflated, each balloon is 90 feet in...

EPIC New Science from 1 Million Miles Away

NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) sits onboard NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR)...

NASA’s BARREL Mission Launches 20 Balloons

BARREL team members run under the payload as the balloon first takes flight at the SANAE IV research station in...

NASA Selects Landing Site for First Robotic Moon Rover

In 2023, NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, will land near the western edge of the...

Researchers Gear Up For OLYMPEX

From November 10 through December 21, NASA and university scientists are taking to the field to study wet winter...

Retrieving the CTD:Rosette

On June 28, 2011, Holley Kelly, a teacher from Farragut High School, helped retrieve the CTD/Rosette ensemble from...

NASA’s BARREL Mission Launches 20 Balloons

Some of the BARREL balloon launches took place at the South African National Antarctic Expedition Research base,...

Himalayan Mountain Range

STS001-12-350 (12-14 April 1981) --- India and China, the Ladokh and Zaskar Ranges of the Great Himalaya are clearly...

Winter Storm Continues Across Central U.S.

The powerful winter storm that has been affecting much of the central and western U.S. continues to intensify as it...

NASA’s BARREL Mission Launches 20 Balloons

Watching a BARREL balloon – and the instruments dangling below – float up over the SANAE IV research base in...

NASA’s BARREL Mission Launches 20 Balloons

An iceberg as viewed from the bow of the RRS Ernest Shackleton a few days before the BARREL team reached Halley...

NASA’s BARREL Mission Launches 20 Balloons

Liftoff! A balloon begins to rise over the brand new Halley VI Research Station, which had its grand opening in...

Retrieving Dropped Supplies

On July 12, 2011, crew from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy retrieved a canister dropped by parachute from a...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - NASA's Lunar Prospector spacecraft launched successfully on its way to the Moon from Launch Complex 46 (LC46) at Cape Canaveral Air Station on Jan. 6 at 9:38 p.m. EST. It was the inaugural launch of Lockheed Martin's Athena II launch vehicle and the first launch from LC46, operated by Spaceport Florida Authority. Lunar Prospector, built for the NASA Ames Research Center by Lockheed Martin, is a spin-stabilized spacecraft designed to provide NASA with the first global maps of the Moon's surface and its gravitational magnetic fields, as well as look for the possible presence of ice near the lunar poles. It will orbit the Moon at an altitude of approximately 63 miles during a one-year mission.