This month's Arctic Radiation IceBridge Sea and Ice Experiment (ARISE) will fly a C-130 Hercules aircraft to study how summer…
Originally called the Landsat Data Continuity Mission, Landsat-8 collects frequent global multispectral imagery of the Earth’s surface, adding to the…
The location of the primary landing site (Site J) for European Space Agency’s Rosetta lander, Philae, is highlighted in this…
A thin sliver of Mimas is illuminated, the long shadows showing off its many craters, indicators of the moon's violent…
MetOp-A is Europe’s first polar orbiting satellite dedicated to meteorology. Operating at a much lower altitude than geostationary satellites, MetOp-A…
NISAR is optimized for studying hazards and global environmental change.Launch: 2021Operating Network: Near Space Network
OCO-2 is NASA’s first remote sensing satellite dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide.Launch: July 2014Operating Network: Near Space Network
The Convair F-102A was a delta-wing, single-engine, jet-powered, all-weather interceptor. A preproduction prototype called the YF-102 was built in 1951,…
Officials from Cullman, Alabama, visited NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center on Sept. 3 to present a proclamation designating the week…
Artist concept of NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission with transparent background.
