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November 23, 2009 NASA Assessing New Roles for Ailing QuikScat SatelliteNASA mission managers are assessing options for future operations of the venerable QuikScat satellite following the age-related failure of a mechanism that spins the scatterometer antenna. |
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November 12, 2009 El Nino Picking Up SteamThe latest image from the U.S./European Jason-2 satellite finds a strong wave of warm water heading toward the Americas, fueling El Niño. |
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November 10, 2009 2012 - A Scientific Reality CheckThe manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object Office shares with you the scientific realities surrounding the celestial happenings in the year 2012 |
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November 9, 2009 A Late-Season Ida Eyes the Northern U.S. Gulf CoastIda, the third hurricane of the 2009 Atlantic season and now a tropical storm, churns through the Gulf of Mexico in this pair of NASA satellite images taken Monday, Nov. 9. |
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October 14, 2009 NASA Celebrates Earth Science WeekJust in time for Earth Science Week, NASA debuts new materials on global climate change to help you talk the talk about the climate of our Third Rock. |
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October 2, 2009 JPL Satellite Data on How Pollution Travels Highlighted in New StudyJPL satellite data on the global transport of carbon monoxide are highlighted in a new National Academy of Sciences report on long-range transport of air pollutants. |
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October 1, 2009 International Science Teams Selected for Aquarius/SAC-D MissionNASA and Argentina's Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE), with support from the Argentine Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovative Production (MinCyT), have selected additional members of the international scientific investigating team for the Aquarius/Satélite de Aplicaciones Científicas (SAC)-D mission, scheduled to launch in 2010. |
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October 1, 2009 Space Radar Reveals Topography of Tsunami SiteThe topography of the Samoan Islands, hit by a devastating tsunami on Sept. 29, is highlighted in this pair of images from NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. |
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September 29, 2009 The Ups and Downs of Global WarmingSkeptics cite short-term cooling trends as evidence Earth isn't warming. JPL scientist Josh Willis explains why understanding climate change requires a longer view. |
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September 28, 2009 Floundering El Ninos Make for Fickle ForecastsScientists agree El Nino is back. But not all El Ninos are created equal, and there's less consensus about the future strength of this year's event. |
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September 9, 2009 Spacecraft Talk Continued During JPL Wildfire ThreatAs the flames of the raging brush fire dubbed the Station Fire threatened the northern edge of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Saturday, Aug. 29, the managers of NASA's Deep Space Network prepared for the worst. |
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September 8, 2009 New NASA Image Shows Extent of Station Fire BurnThe extent of devastation from the Station fire burning near Los Angeles is strikingly visible in this Sept. 6 image from NASA's Terra satellite. |
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September 3, 2009 Pollution from California Wildfires Spreads Across the United StatesCarbon-monoxide-filled smoke from California's Station Fire spreads across the United States in this animation created from data from NASA's Aqua satellite. |
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September 1, 2009 Satellites and Submarines Give the Skinny on Sea Ice ThicknessA new study led by JPL scientist Ron Kwok combines recent NASA satellite data with submarine data to chronicle a nearly half- century history of Arctic ice thickness. |
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September 1, 2009 Powerful Hurricane Jimena Steams Toward BajaThe JPL-built Atmospheric Infrared Sounder instrument (AIRS) on NASA's Aqua satellite captured this image of a then Category 4 Hurricane Jimena early on Tuesday, Sept. 1, as the storm approached the southern tip of Mexico's Baja peninsula. |
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Kepler Starts Hunt for Earth-Like Worlds |
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Herschel and Planck Launch |
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Parachute Test for Mars |
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Eyes on the Earth 3D |
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Cool Stars |
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