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Plant Stress Paints Early Picture of Drought
12.05.12 - Before a lack of rain and record-breaking heat signaled a problem in July 2012, scientists observed another indication of drought in data from NASA and NOAA satellites: plant stress.
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Van Allen Probes Reveal New Dynamics of Radiation Belts
12.05.12 - Just 96 days since launch, the Van Allen Probes have already provided new insights into the structure and behavior of the radiation belts that surround Earth.
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NASA's TRMM Satellite Provides 3-D Analyzation of Super-typhoon Bopha: "Full Catastrophe"
12.05.12 - NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite observed the eyewall of Super-typhoon Bopha in 3-D shortly before noon on Monday, Dec. 3, 2012 (Philippines local time).
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NASA Investigates Use of ‘Trailblazing’ Material
12.05.12 - Tiny sensor -- made of a potentially trailblazing material just one atom thick and heralded as the 'next best thing' since the invention of silicon -- are now being developed to detect trace elements in Earth’s upper atmosphere and structural flaws in spacecraft.
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Sungrazing Comets as Solar Probes
12.05.12 - On Dec. 15, 2011, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured footage of Comet Lovejoy approaching the sun. The images and data collected by NASA's solar observing fleet can help scientists learn more about the sun itself.
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Orbiter Spies Where Rover's Cruise Stage Hit Mars
12.05.12 - Pictures from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show scars on the surface of the Red Planet where discarded pieces of the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft hit the ground.
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Lift and Tilt Prepares Atlantis for Display
12.04.12 - Still in its protective shrink wrap, space shuttle Atlantis has been raised and tilted into display position at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.
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SOHO: Crucial Space Weather Mission Hits 17 Years
12.04.12 - A joint ESA/NASA mission, SOHO has helped revolutionize our understanding of the sun's interior and complex atmosphere since it launched on Dec. 2, 1995.
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Climate Models Project Increase in U.S. Wildfire Risk
12.04.12 - Scientists using NASA satellite data and climate models have projected drier conditions likely will cause increased fire activity across the United States in coming decades.
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NASA Opportunity Rover Does Walkabout of Crater Rim
12.04.12 - The latest work assignment for NASA's long-lived Mars rover Opportunity is a further examination of an area where the robot just completed a walkabout.
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Student Scientists Seek and Share Results
12.05.12 - Students these days have a new way to summarize and share topics not only with their class, but with the entire education and scientific community.
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NASA's GRAIL Creates Most Accurate Moon Gravity Map
12.05.12 - Twin NASA probes orbiting Earth's moon have generated the highest resolution gravity field map of any celestial body.
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Kennedy Scientist Leads National Research Society
11.30.12 - Over the past year Howard G. Levine, Ph.D., a NASA scientist at the Kennedy Space Center, has led one of the preeminent microgravity research organizations in the United States.
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Curiosity Shakes, Bakes, and Tastes Mars with SAM
12.03.12 - NASA's Curiosity rover analyzed its first solid sample of Mars with a variety of instruments, including the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite.
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Testing the Fold: The James Webb Space Telescope's Sunshield
12.03.12 - Engineers got a first-hand look at how the James Webb Space Telescope's sunshield would fold around the observatory while stored in the rocket..
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NASA Voyager 1 Encounters New Region in Deep Space
12.03.12 - NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a new region at the far reaches of our solar system that scientists feel is the final area the spacecraft has to cross before reaching interstellar space.
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NASA Mars Rover Fully Analyzes First Soil Samples
12.03.12 - NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has used its full array of instruments to analyze Martian soil for the first time, and found a complex chemistry within the Martian soil.
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NASA Researchers Discover Ancient Microbes in Antarctic Lake
11.30.12 - In a remote lake in Antarctica, 65 feet beneath the icy surface, scientists from NASA and other institutions have uncovered a community of bacteria.
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NASA Locomotives Upgraded in Shuttle-Era Facility
12.03.12 - A NASA Railroad locomotive receives a major upgrade at a Space Shuttle Program-era facility at Kennedy Space Center.
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Reactor Makes Trash a Power Source
12.03.12 - Researchers are developing a reactor to incinerate garbage in space to produce fuel, air and water.