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Storm in the Sargasso Sea Scientist aboard the R/V Endeavor in the Sargasso Sea put their research on hold on July...
What's in the Water? Robert Foster, of the City College of New York, filters seawater on July 23, 2414, for...
Catnap at Sea Ali Chase of the University of Maine, and Courtney Kearney of the Naval Research Laboratory, caught a...
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...
This optical composite image shows asteroid 2017 YE5, taken on June 30, 2018, by the Cadi Ayyad University Morocco...
Mechanical technician, Andrew Scharmann, slides a lift fixture into position to ensure the Ocean Color Instrument...
NASA release April 1, 2010 The giant elliptical galaxy NGC 5128, show here in visible light, hosts the radio source...
NASA's Space Optics Manufacturing Technology Center has been working to expand our view of the universe via...
How might lasers revolutionize deep space communications? NASA will test high-bandwidth laser (or optical)...
NASA research Dr. Donald Frazier uses a blue laser shining through a quartz window into a special mix of chemicals...
Sections of ZBLAN fibers pulled in a conventional 1-g process (right) and in experiments aboard NASA's KC-135...
On the second day of the 25.5-day Artemis I mission, Orion used its optical navigation camera to snap black and...
Orion’s black-and-white optical navigation camera captured this view of the Moon on the fourth day of the Artemis I...
On the second day of the 25.5-day Artemis I mission, Orion used its optical navigation camera to snap black and...
Testing is crucial part of NASA's success on Earth and in space. So, as the actual flight components of NASA's James...
NASA scientist, in the Space Sciences lab at Marshall, works with capillary optics that generate more intense X-rays...
Alejandro Rodriguez Perez and Joe Thomes, members of the fiber optic & photonic team, configure the Ocean Color...
Mechanical technicians reorient the Ocean Color Instrument (OCI) Optical Module on a rotation fixture to allow for...
This pair of images of the Long Island, New York region is a comparison of an optical photograph (top) and a radar...
A technician operates articulating equipment to rotate the Near-Earth Object Surveyor (NEO Surveyor) mission's...
On July 6, 2011, Don Perovich, of Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, used a spectroradiometer to...
STS075-310-002 (22 Feb.-9 March 1996) --- Astronaut Maurizio Cheli, STS-75 mission specialist, works with the Tether...
The SELENE Optics project was designed to send powerful laser beams into space to repower satellites and to recharge...