Ames Image GalleryThe behavior of water-ice clouds on Mars plays a big role in its climate, and this computer simulation shows them...Vice President Mike Pence observed a test run of the Arc Jet – a high-energy wind tunnel that simulates the...Vice President Mike Pence (left) and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine (right) visit the Vertical Motion Simulator, or VMS, at NASA’s...Vice President Mike Pence gets a look at an engineering test unit for VIPER – short for Volatiles Investigating Polar...Vice President Mike Pence Visits NASA in Silicon ValleyAerodynamics engineer Thomas Steva (left) of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and aerospace engineer Nettie Roozeboom (right) of NASA’s Ames...NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley celebrated the grand opening of its new Modular Supercomputing Facility on Aug....The next great leap in aviation is expected to bring us more and more autonomous aircraft. NASA is taking the...On June 21 NASA demonstrated the first coordinated maneuver between two CubeSats in low-Earth orbit as part of NASA’s Optical...On the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11 splashdown the U.S.S. Hornet opened its decks to commemorate the occasion.NASA and industry partners really got to know the streets of Reno, Nevada during the past few weeks. During June...On June 14, Bumble became the first Astrobee robot to fly under its own power in space. Astrobee is a...Before the next astronauts set foot on the Moon, they'll need to learn how to land their spacecraft on the...Astrobee is a free-flying robot system that will provide a research platform for the orbiting laboratory.This image taken on Sept. 25, 2018 by NASA’s Kepler space telescope is the final record of Kepler’s full field...NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, is a mobile robot that will roam around the Moon’s south pole...NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, is a mobile robot that will roam around the Moon’s south pole...NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, is a mobile robot that will roam around the Moon’s south pole...Pictured here is a VIPER mobility testbed, an engineering model created to evaluate the rover’s mobility system.Components of the Neutron Spectrometer System undergo testing on the vibration table.Two Ames mechanics inspect the Tiltrotor Test Rig 20 feet above the wind tunnel floor in the U.S. Air Force’s...The Kepler space telescope is done with its work collecting astounding science data showing there are more planets than stars...After nine years in deep space collecting data that revealed our night sky to be filled with billions of hidden...NASA Goes to Great Lengths to Get Mars Entry, Descent and Landing MeasurementsAn expedition that will help NASA search for life in deep space launched today – not with a rocket’s roar,...The Mendocino Complex Fire is now the largest wildfire in California history with well over 350,000 acres burned. This false-color...SOFIA released new data revealing the structure of celestial magnetic fields in the region known as 30 Doradus, 30 Dor,...On August 8, 1978, the Pioneer Venus Multiprobe spacecraft launched to study Venus, a planet that has an atmosphere 100...Now you can print your own 3-D model of SOFIA, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy.Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel at Ames.N-206 12 foot Wind Tunnel (Completed) for Dedication Brochure. Taken at night. Hangar One in background. Taken from the roof...This system of fans moves air through the world’s largest wind tunnels, at the National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex at NASA’s...Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) parachute test in the NASA Ames 80-by-120-foot Subsonic Wind Tunnel at Moffett Field, Calif.NASA Transonic Truss Braced Wing testing in the Ames 11 X 11 foot wind tunnel. Test 11-0367A model of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) cargo variant, designated for the Europa mission called Science Mission 1 (SM1)...Testing thermal protection materials at angle of attack in the Ames Arc Jet Complex.The heat shield used to transport the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover through the atmosphere of the Red Planet upon arrival...Material being tested in Ames' Arcjet Facility simulating aerothermodynamic heating that a spacecraft endures during hypersonic re-entry.Arc Jet - PICA
