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This short video reveals a space-based view of the burning oil rig, the spill, and the location through April 1,...
This short video reveals a space-based view of the burning oil rig (from the MODIS instrument on board NASA's Terra...
The southernmost tip of Africa is marked by the Cape Agulhas lighthouse. The warm Atlantic Agulhas current meets the...
Huge sediment loads from the interior of the country flow through the Mouths of the Amazon River, Brazil (0.5S,...
Swift currents flow through the Strait of Gibraltar, producing complicated patterns in the surface waters. Some of...
NASA astronaut and Expedition 64 Flight Engineer Victor Glover works with the FLUIDICS experiment, which observes...
Engineers Raquel Rodriguez Monje and Fabien Nicaise discuss placement of the DopplerScatt radar instrument on the...
Radar operator Alexander Winteer monitors incoming wind data from the DopplerScatt radar instrument during a science...
NASA’s B200 taking off for an eight-hour science flight on March 5. Located on the center of the aircraft’s fuselage...
Damaging heavy rains fell on South Carolina in the southeastern United States at the beginning of October 2015. Much...
This artist's rendering showing a cutaway view into the interior of Saturn's moon Enceladus. NASA's Cassini...
ICESat-2 will measure heights or elevations. In order to derive sea ice thickness from those measurements, it will...
This graphic, released on Dec. 10, 2020, shows the basic radar measurements, called waveforms, collected by the...
ISS039-E-11773 (14 April 2014) --- Photographed with a camera equipped with an 80mm lens from the International...
The ocean-observing Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California...
This animation, created in 2012, shows the increasing clarity and detail of measurements of sea height made by...
STS089-743-004 (22-31 Jan. 1998) --- This picture showing Auckland Island, New Zealand was photographed with a 70mm...
STS062-86-196 (4-18 March 1994) --- This photo depicts many of the types of ocean features seen when illuminated by...
iss070e086805 (2/3/2024) --- NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara captured this arctic region of Canada using a handheld...
Is there potential for life on Europa? This icy moon of Jupiter has a massive ocean hidden beneath its icy crust —...
Director's Colloquium; Dr Jonathan Trent, Physical Scientist with NASA Ames Bioengineering Branch presents 'OMEGA...
SL3-121-2371 (July-September 1973) --- A pattern of downstream eddies in the stratocumulus clouds over the Pacific...
STS062-153-226 (4-18 March 1994) --- Though it did not reproduce well, this photo gives scientific information to...
Director's Colloquium; Dr Jonathan Trent, Physical Scientist with NASA Ames Bioengineering Branch presents 'OMEGA...