Satellites See Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Melt
WASHINGTON — For several days this month, Greenland’s surface ice cover melted over a larger area than at any time in more than 30 years of satellite observations. Nearly the…
Sun Erupts a 7.6 Million Mile per hour Coronal Mass Ejection from Sunspot 1520
Sunspot 1520 may have turned away from earth but it is still very active. On July 23rd it erupted a CME that sent matter speeding away from the sun at…
Successful Tests of Hypersonic Inflatable Heat Shield
WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. — A large inflatable heat shield developed by NASA’s Space Technology Program has successfully survived a trip through Earth’s atmosphere while travelling at hypersonic speeds up to…
The Longest Continuous View of Earth From Space Hits 40
WASHINGTON — NASA and the Interior Department Monday marked the 40th anniversary of the Landsat program, the world’s longest-running Earth-observing satellite program. The first Landsat satellite was launched July 23,…
New Supercomputer Facility Set to Advance Earth Research
WASHINGTON — NASA soon will open a new chapter of discovery using enhanced Landsat Earth-observing data in a state-of-the-art, high-performance computing and data access facility called NASA Earth Exchange (NEX)….
Mars Science Lab Curiosity Worth the Cost?
The fact that we are about to land the largest most complex and powerful rovers ever to land on mars is exciting for anyone with even a passing interest in…
Telescope Captures Sharpest Images of Sun’s Corona
WASHINGTON — A telescope launched July 11 aboard a NASA sounding rocket has captured the highest-resolution images ever taken of the sun’s million-degree atmosphere called the corona. The clarity of…
Japan Robotic Cargo Ship to dock with the Space Station
Japan is launching a new unmanned cargo spaseship that will be delivering goods to the international space station. The Spaceship called H-2 Transfer Vehicle-3, or HTV-3 for short, is…
