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From November 10 through December 21, NASA and university scientists are taking to the field to study wet winter...
Six cyclones can be seen at Jupiter's south pole in this infrared image taken on Feb. 2, 2017, during the 3rd...
ISS008-E-06862 (3 December 2003) --- Astronaut C. Michael Foale, Expedition 8 mission commander and NASA ISS science...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Follow On–Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1)...
By providing a set of base measurements that were taken on Earth, this calibration target will help fine-tune the...
Technicians inspect the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Follow On–Lagrange 1...
Crews at NASA Goddard’s Wallops Flight Facility are hard at work integrating a suite of instruments into a C-130...
Today's VIS image is located on the lower flank of Olympus Mons. Olympus Mons is the largest volcano in the solar...
In 2016, former astronaut and climate scientist Dr. Piers Sellers visited Thule, Greenland, one of the home bases...
NASA recently completed flight testing a state-of-the-art instrument designed to capture high-quality measurements...
Tests to measure the center of gravity and moments of inertia for the Mars 2020 rover aeroshell are performed on the...
Technicians inspect the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Follow On–Lagrange 1...
This video features both the rugged scenery of Greenland and the somewhat rugged interior of a NASA C-130, the...
S72-53470 (November 1972) --- The Far-Ultraviolet Spectrometer, Experiment S-169, one of the lunar orbital science...
From November 10 through December 21, NASA and university scientists are taking to the field to study wet winter...
Technicians inspect the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Follow On–Lagrange 1...
To give some sense of the immense scale of cyclones arranged in a hexagonal pattern at Jupiter's south pole, an...
Tests to measure the center of gravity and moments of inertia for the Mars 2020 rover aeroshell are performed on the...
NASA's Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) captured an optical image of Hurricane Ian, as well as...
NASA's SMAP (Soil Moisture Active Passive) satellite observatory conducted a field experiment as part of its soil...
The High Altitude Lidar Observatory (HALO) system electronics and diagnostic tools are integrated onto the DC-8...
Aerosol data from the High Altitude Lidar Observatory (HALO), pictured here, will give mission scientists a better...
The High Altitude Lidar Observatory (HALO) instrument head, which houses the lidar instrument, is installed onto the...
This artist's concept from August 2015 depicts NASA's InSight Mars lander fully deployed for studying the deep...