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NASA's ECOSTRESS Captures Short-Lived Heat Wave in L.A. Area

A short-lived heat wave that hit the Los Angeles area the week of July 7, 2025, was the first of summer. The heat...

Heat Wave Building Into the Ohio Valley and Eastern United States

A very anomalous weather pattern is in place over the U.S. for mid-July. Trapped between an upper level ridge...

SWOT Satellite Measures Pacific Tsunami

The U.S.-French SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) satellite captured the leading edge of a tsunami wave that...

Disturbances by Daphnis

Daphnis cruises through the Keeler Gap, raising edge waves in the ring material as it passes

Backward Black Hole Shoots Powerful Jets Artist Concept

This artist concept shows a galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its core. The black hole is shooting out jets...

Dwarfed Wavemaker

The tiny wavemaker moon Daphnis is dwarfed by the very waves it creates on the edge of the Keeler gap as seen by...

Moon Signature

The presence of the tiny ring moon Daphnis is betrayed by the edge waves it creates in the Keeler gap

LISA Pathfinder Spacecraft Artist Concept

This artist's concept shows ESA's LISA Pathfinder spacecraft, which launched on Dec. 3, 2015, from Kourou, French...

OCI Short Wave Infrared Pulse Calibration Assembly Integration

Manufacturing engineer, Roman Nilov, inspects flight hardware after technicians install the Short Wave Infrared...

The Soyuz Taxi crew wave through a Soyuz hatch during their visit to the ISS

ISS003-E-7251 (23-31 October 2001) --- The Soyuz Taxi crewmembers wave from a Soyuz spacecraft docked to the...

OCI Short Wave Infrared Pulse Calibration Assembly Build

Mechanical technician, Dave Nolan, tightens bolts on the Ocean Color Instrument (OCI) Short Wave Infrared (SWIR)...

Astronaut S. David Griggs waves to Orbiter during EVA

51D-04-025 (16 April 1985) --- Bearing a maze of interesting reflections, this aquarium-like scene came during one...

Welcome to the Ionosphere

Learn about the features of the ionosphere! This little-explored region exists between space and Earth. It is home...

Data Recorded as Juno Entered Magnetosphere

This chart presents data that the Waves investigation on NASA's Juno spacecraft recorded as the spacecraft crossed...

Data Recorded as Juno Crossed Jovian Bow Shock

This chart presents data that the Waves investigation on NASA's Juno spacecraft recorded as the spacecraft crossed...

Roman Coronagraph Undergoes Electromagnetic Interference Testing

The Roman Coronagraph Instrument, a technology demonstration that will be part of NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space...

The Realm of Daphnis

Daphnis, one of Saturn's ring-embedded moons, is featured in this view, kicking up waves as it orbits within the...

July 2021 Heat Wave Ground Temperature

On July 8, NASA's ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) instrument...

Wave of a Planet

This plot tells astronomers that a fifth planet is in orbit around the star 55 Cancri, making the star the...

A Ring Waves

This Cassini spacecraft view shows details of Saturn outer A ring, including the Encke and Keeler gaps. The A ring...

Waves and Shear

Waving to Janus

Cassini gazes down toward Saturn unilluminated ringplane to find Janus hugging the outer edge of rings

Shadow and a Wave

NASA Cassini Orbiter captures a far-off view of the two-toned surface of Saturn moon, Iapetus.

Weak and Strong Plasma Oscillation Signals

Weak but nearly continuous plasma oscillation events — visible as a thin red line in this graphic — connect stronger...