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Scientists from NASA's Cassini mission suggested in a 2016 paper that the appearance of a cloud of dicyanoacetylene...
Particle-image velocimetry (PIV) is performed on the upper surface of a pitching airfoil in the NASA Glenn Icing...
How do you measure a cloud? Tim Bencic does it with lasers. The NASA Glenn engineer invented a tomography system for...
Enceladus continues to exhale water ice into Saturn orbit, keeping the E ring topped off with tiny particles
These illustrations indicate possible ways in which the water vapor and ice particles in the plume of Enceladus may...
Lit by reflected light from Saturn, Enceladus appears to hover above the gleaming rings, its well-defined ice...
This graphic of Jupiter moon Europa maps a relationship between the amount of energy deposited onto the moon from...
Peeking over the crescent of Enceladus, the Cassini spacecraft views the towering plume of ice particles erupting...
This illustration depicts potential origins of methane found in the plume of gas and ice particles that sprays from...
Small water ice particles fly from fissures in the south polar region of Saturn moon Enceladus in this image taken...
NASA Cassini spacecraft examines old and new terrain on Saturn fascinating Enceladus, a moon where jets of water ice...
This false-color infrared image, obtained by NASA Cassini spacecraft, shows clouds of large ammonia ice particles...
Jets of water ice particles spew from Saturn moon Enceladus in this image obtained by NASA Cassini spacecraft on...
This artist concept shows NASA CloudSat spacecraft and its Cloud Profiling Radar using microwave energy to observe...
These holes, captured on Alaska's Matanuska Glacier in July 2012, are formed by cryoconite – dust particles that...
Both water and dry ice have a major role in sculpting Mars' surface at high latitudes. Water ice frozen in the soil...
Although the season is late spring, carbon dioxide ice still covers much of the surface at this high latitude site....
NASA Glenn’s Propulsion Systems Lab (PSL) is conducting research to characterize ice crystal clouds that can create...
The Cassini spacecraft stares toward Saturn through its gauzy veil of rings. The great ice-particle screen acts like...
ARCSIX is the Arctic Radiation Cloud Aerosol Surface Interaction Experiment. The overarching goal of ARCSIX is to...
Arctic Ozone Expedition Stavanger Norway These clouds in the polar regions north of Stravanger, Norway are...
Test engineers clean the ice cloud detection probe in the Icing Research Tunnel in between test runs. Steam is used...
This illustration shows Saturn's icy moon Enceladus with the plume of ice particles, water vapor and organic...
This graphic depicts the evolutionary process of "shallow lightning" and ammonia-water hailstones called...