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For centuries, a massive store of carbon has been locked underground in the Arctic's permanently frozen soil known...
The Arctic Boreal and Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) covers 2.5 million square miles of tundra, forests,...
Scientists with NASA's Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment - ABoVE - are studying how the Arctic region responds...
In 2018, NASA will intensify its focus on one of the most critical but remote parts of our changing planet with the...
This view shows the texture of the ground in the area that was favored as a landing site for NASA Phoenix Mars...
The full-circle panorama in approximately true color taken by NASA Phoenix Mars Lander shows the polygonal...
NASA researchers are flying over Alaska and Canada, studying the effects of a greening Arctic. Permafrost, the...
jsc2023e030775 (3/30/2023) --- The Educational Space Science and ENgineering CubeSat Experiment Mission...
jsc2023e030774 (3/30/2023) The ESSENCE team is pictured (left to right): Abel Beyene, Tasnima Huma Awal, Jack...
As part of the Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE), NASA scientists are flying over Alaska and Canada,...
The western Utopia Planitia in the Northern mid-latitudes of Mars is marked by a peculiar type of depression with...
iss069e025742 (June 28, 2023) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 69 Flight Engineer Stephen Bowen with CubeSats to be...
The jumble of eroded ridges and mesas seen in this NASA Mars Odyssey image occurs within Ares Vallis, one of the...
The soil surface on Mars is believed to contain water ice, especially at higher latitudes. Similar to permafrost...
Lyot Crater (220-kilometers in diameter) is located in the Northern lowlands of Mars. The crater's floor marks the...
Lyot Crater (220-kilometers in diameter) is located in the Northern lowlands of Mars. The crater's floor marks the...
It's spring in the Northern Hemisphere of Mars (when this image was taken), and this area was recently completely...
This image is of a portion of the Southern plains region within Hellas, the largest impact basin on Mars, with a...
ISS018-E-005660 (28 Oct. 2008) --- The Great Divide of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado is featured in this image...