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The Water Planet
The Water Planet

Viewed from space, the most striking feature of our planet is the water. In both liquid and frozen form, it…

Ground Tests of Alternative Biofuels
Ground Tests of Alternative Biofuels

Researchers checked out emissions detection equipment set up behind NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory during ground tests of alternative biofuels derived…

Design Faces the Future
Design Faces the Future

This aircraft design faces the future head-on.

Future Subsonic Aircraft
Future Subsonic Aircraft

Designed for efficiency, the D8 has a very wide fuselage to provide extra lift and low-swept wings to reduce drag…

Bright Minds, Right Ideas
Bright Minds, Right Ideas

Professor Mark Drela (center), chief engineer of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology aircraft design team, helps undergraduate students Nina Siu…

The Double Bubble D8
The Double Bubble D8

One of the advanced design concepts – the D8 or "double bubble" – is now a subscale model being tested…

Alaska’s Susitna Glacier
Alaska’s Susitna Glacier

Like rivers of liquid water, glaciers flow downhill, with tributaries joining to form larger rivers. But where water rushes, ice…

Nile River Delta at Night
Nile River Delta at Night

One of the fascinating aspects of viewing Earth at night is how well the lights show the distribution of people.…

Hurricane Earl: The Astronaut View
Hurricane Earl: The Astronaut View

The relatively placid view from the International Space Station belied the potent forces at work in Hurricane Earl as it…

ICESCAPE Arctic Sea Ice Mission
ICESCAPE Arctic Sea Ice Mission

The terrain for the scientific work conducted by ICESCAPE scientists on July 4, 2010, was Arctic sea ice and melt…