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Snow is one part of the cryosphere that many of us have actually encountered, but it also plays a crucial role in...
This year marks the tenth Arctic spring campaign for Operation IceBridge, a cryosphere-focused mission tasked with...
In 2018, NASA will intensify its focus on one of the most critical but remote parts of our changing planet with the...
It’s 5 a.m. on a normal September day and #NASAExplorers have gathered in a California field to watch a rocket...
The Columbia Glacier in Alaska is one of many vanishing around the world. Glacier retreat is one of the most direct...
Arctic sea ice extent ebbs and flows with the seasons. During the summer months, the ice melts and the edge recedes...
Pioneer Venus Art: Atmosphere Flow Day/Night Homopause, Ionosphere, Thermosphere, and Cryosphere
Just 114 miles from the newly-found Hiawatha impact crater under the ice of northwest Greenland, lies a possible...
Last year Operation IceBridge flew for the first time out of McMurdo Station in Antarctica, reaching a new slate of...
In 2007, more than 1,100 Landsat 7 images were used to create the first ever, high-resolution, true color map of...
Dr. Thomas Wagner, NASA Program Scientist for the cryosphere, gives a presentation on observing the Earth's Poles in...
Dr. Thomas Wagner, NASA Program Scientist for the cryosphere, gives a presentation on observing the Earth's Poles in...
For centuries, a massive store of carbon has been locked underground in the Arctic's permanently frozen soil known...
Arctic sea ice declined this summer to its second smallest extent in the satellite era, suggesting that the record...
Inside Building 836 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the first half of the payload fairing for the United...
Both halves of the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II rocket payload fairing are transported by convoy to ULA's...
A flatbed truck arrives at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, carrying the payload fairing for the United...
The United Launch Alliance Delta II first stage is lifted to vertical on the stand at Space Launch Complex 2 on June...
At Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, NASA's Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) is hoisted...
Both halves of the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II rocket payload fairing are transported by convoy to ULA's...
Inside Building 836 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, one of the payload fairing halves for the United...
A flatbed truck, carrying the payload fairing for the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II rocket, arrives at...
The United Launch Alliance Delta II first stage arrives at Space Launch Complex 2 on June 8, 2018, at Vandenberg Air...
The United Launch Alliance Delta II second stage has arrived at the horizontal processing facility at Space Launch...