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A Look at the Future
Engineers Richard Jones and Brad Crawford prepare the SAGE III-ISS instrument for testing in the medium bay of Building 1250. NASA Langley researchers completed a week of sun-look and moon-look tests ...
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Time to Fly: SAGE III - ISS Prepped for Space Station
After nine years in a clean room, the SAGE III instrument returns to service measuring the Earth's atmosphere and ozone layer.
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Thousand-fold Rise in Polar Flights Hikes Radiation Risk
NASA is developing a system to predict radiation entering Earth's atmosphere from space to provide commercial airline passengers and crew real-time information about in-flight radiation exposure.
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CALIPSO Spies Polar Stratospheric Clouds →
NASA's CALIPSO caught a top-down glimpse of an unusual atmospheric phenomenon -- polar stratospheric clouds, also known as nacreous clouds -- on January 4, while flying past the east coast of Greenland.
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NASA scientists use new software to understand cloud observations →
The latest version of a cutting-edge visualization program will help scientists better understand what their observations are telling them about clouds and climate.
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Little Instrument that Could Reaches Flight Milestone
NASA's High Spectral Resolution Lidar instrument reaches a milestone -- 1,000 flight hours.
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AIAA presents Losey Award to Langley's Minnis
Studying contrails and clouds from space to improve aviation safety has earned Patrick Minnis the Losey Atmospheric Sciences Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
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Under Pressure: Stormy Weather Sensor for Hurricane Forecasting
It’s hard to believe that, in this day and age, we don’t have a way to measure sea-level air pressure during hurricanes. NASA researchers, however, are working on a system that will improve forecasting of severe ocean weather by doing just that.
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CLARREO Passes First Big Test
The best way to get a good grade is to do your homework. An independent team of experts from around the country met at NASA Langley last week to grade homework on CLARREO, then said it passed.
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It's a Bird, It's a Missile... It's an Airplane!
When Patrick Minnis saw video of the "mystery" contrail Nov. 9 that looked like a missile launch near Catalina Island off Los Angeles, he figured it the way most people did.