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  • Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer

    WISE: Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer

    WISE will study the solar system, Milky Way and universe. Among the objects WISE will study are asteroids, the coolest and dimmest stars and the most luminous galaxies.

  • Artist concept of SDO probe

    SDO: Solar Dynamics Observatory

    The Solar Dynamics Observatory will help us understand the sun's influence on Earth by studying the solar atmosphere at multiple wavelengths.

  • Ares 1-X flight test

    Ares I-X Flight Test

    NASA's first flight test for the agency's next-generation spacecraft and launch vehicle system, called Ares I-X, will bring NASA one step closer to its exploration goals.

    › Ares I-X Flight Test Section
  • Diviner thermal map of LCROSS impact sites

    LCROSS Impacts the Lunar Surface

    The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) impacted the moon after a journey of nearly 5.6 million miles that included several orbits around Earth and the moon.

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  • Antarctica's Larsen Ice Shelf

    Operation Ice Bridge

    Operation Ice Bridge, a six-year NASA field campaign, is the largest airborne survey of Earth's polar ice ever flown. It will yield a three-dimensional view of Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets, ice shelves and sea ice.

  • Expedition 21

    Expedition 21 flight engineers Jeff Williams and Maxim Suraev join the crew on the International Space Station.

    › Space Station Section
    › Expedition 21
    › Interactive Station Guide
  • Hubble image of NGC 6302

    NASA Releases Images from Refurbished Hubble

    NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is back in business after astronauts refurbished it in May. These first snapshots from Hubble showcase the 19-year-old telescope's new vision.

    › View images and comment
    › Read the feature
    › NASA's press release
  • GOES-O being prepared for hoisting on to the launch vehicle

    GOES-O Weather Satellite Launches

    The latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite will aid the nation's meteorologists and climate scientists, providing familiar weather pictures seen in daily newscasts in the U.S.

  • Artist's concept of GOES-O in orbit

    GOES-O

    The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-O represents the newest generation of environmental satellites.

  • Kepler spacecraft

    Kepler

    View Kepler-related videos and other multimedia.

  • artist concept of Orbiting Carbon Observatory

    Orbiting Carbon Observatory

    NASA's first spacecraft dedicated to studying carbon dioxide, the leading human-produced greenhouse gas driving changes in Earth's climate.

  • Phoenix Mars Lander

    Phoenix Mars Lander

    The search for possible conditions for life in the Martian arctic.

  • IBEX Questions and Answers

    IBEX

    A mission to achieve the first global observations of the region beyond the termination shock at the very edge of our solar system.

  • artist concept of Ocean Surface Topography Mission

    Ocean Surface Topography Mission/Jason 2

    The joint NASA-French satellite will help scientists better monitor and understand rises in global sea level, study the world's ocean circulation and its links to Earth's climate.

  • Image of a solar sail

    Sailing Ships in Space? Maybe.

    Later this summer NASA will attempt to deploy and operate the first spacecraft in low Earth orbit propelled only by the power of sunlight.

  • The Gamma-ray Large Space Telescope

    GLAST Launches on Gamma Ray Mission

    The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope will answer questions about supermassive black hole systems, pulsars and the origin of cosmic rays.

  • Hubble Space Telescope

    NASA Gives 'Go' to Hubble Upgrade

    Shuttle astronauts will make one final house call to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope as part of a mission to extend and improve the observatory's capabilities through 2013.

    › Hubble Servicing Mission
    › Photo Gallery

  • MESSENGER

    NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) is the first mission sent to orbit the planet closest to the sun.

  • Constellation Program

    Constellation: NASA's Future

    A new generation of spacecraft will carry humans to the moon, Mars and beyond.


  • Dawn

    Dawn

    Dawn launched in September, becoming the first spacecraft ever planned to orbit two different bodies after leaving Earth. The spacecraft will orbit Vesta and Ceres, two of the largest asteroids in the solar system.