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Ralph Basilio, OCO-2 project manager with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California discusses...
Ralph Basilio, OCO-2 project manager, JPL, discusses the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2), NASA’s first...
Betsy Edwards, OCO-2 program executive with the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington...
Ralph Basilio, OCO-2 project manager, JPL, discusses the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2), NASA’s first...
Ralph Basilio, OCO-2 project manager with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, left, and...
Betsy Edwards, OCO-2 program executive, NASA Headquarters, discusses the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2),...
Tim Dunn, NASA launch director, Kennedy Space Center, discusses the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2), NASA’s...
Dave Crisp, OCO-2 science team leader, JPL, left, and Annmarie Eldering, OCO-2 deputy project scientist, JPL, are...
Ralph Basilio, OCO-2 project manager with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California discusses...
NASA Spitzer, Hubble and Chandra space observatories teamed up to create this multi-wavelength, false-colored view...
This still image from an animation from NASA GSFC Solar Dynamics Observatory shows magnetically charged particles...
This image from ESA Herschel Space Observatory reveals a suspected ring at the center of our galaxy is warped for...
In this artist conception based on data from ESA Herschel observatory, a galaxy accretes mass from rapid, narrow...
In this new view of the Andromeda, also known as M31, galaxy from the Herschel space observatory, cool lanes of...
The High Altitude Lidar Observatory (HALO) instrument head, which houses the lidar instrument, is installed onto the...
NASA's new SOFIA observatory shared the ramp with its predecessor, the now-retired Kuiper Airborne Observatory,...
NASA's now-retired Kuiper Airborne Observatory shared the limelight with its successor, the SOFIA observatory,...
This photograph shows the Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO), formerly Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF),...
This is a photograph of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory (CXO), formerly Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF),...
This is a photograph of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory (CXO), formerly Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF),...
This photograph shows the Chandra X-Ray Observatory (CXO), formerly Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF),...
Tom Woods, (second from right), principal investigator, Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment instrument,...
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, left, talks with an engineer at the base of the United Launch Alliance Delta II...
The launch gantry, surrounding the United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket with the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2...