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ICESat-2 Friends and Family Day. Tours and activities in Building 7 and 28.
ICESat-2 Friends and Family Day. Tours and activities in Building 7 and 28.
ICESat-2 Friends and Family Day. Tours and activities in Building 7 and 28.
Brad Doorn, SMAP applications lead, Science Mission Directorate’s Applied Sciences Program at NASA Headquarters...
Kent Kellogg, SMAP project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, CA, speaks during a...
Dara Entekhabi, SMAP science team lead, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, speaks during a briefing about the...
Christine Bonniksen, SMAP program executive with the Science Mission Directorate’s Earth Science Division at NASA...
On April 28, 2014, NASA Terra spacecraft spotted signs of activity at Ubinas volcano in the Peruvian Andes. The...
The only active region observed this week appeared on Dec. 5, 2018 and grew into an average size display of dynamic...
On Jan. 20, 2017, NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a small area of the sun highlighted three active region....
The sun featured just one, rather small active region over the past few days, but it developed rapidly and sported a...
STS061-95-028 (6 Dec 1993) --- Astronaut Kathryn C. Thornton, on the end of the Space Shuttle Endeavour's Remote...
An active region just rotating into view gave us a perfect view of the tussle of magnetic field lines above it (Oct....
Fallon Nettles (left), an Astro Camp counselor at NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center, assists a young fan attending...
Dara Entekhabi, SMAP science team lead, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, center, speaks during a briefing...
The radar measurements made by NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive SMAP observatory are sensitive to whether land...
Mt. Etna, Sicily, Italy, is Europe most active volcano. In mid-May 2016, Mt. Etna put on a display of lava...
Several bright bands of plasma connect from one active region to another, even though they are tens of thousands of...
NASA image acquired December 4, 2010 After a respite of less than a month, Klyuchevskaya Volcano resumed erupting in...
As a pair of active regions began to rotate into view, their towering magnetic field lines above them bloomed into a...
F-15B ACTIVE in flight over lakebed
Young visitors to NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center prepare to launch 'stomp rockets' during STEM-Ulate to...
The Sun's rotation brought a new active region into view, revealing the dynamic arches and twisting streams of its...
S69-59525 (19 Nov. 1969) --- Overall view of activity in the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) in the Mission...