August 2026

Earth Observatory
Your challenge is to tell us the location of the satellite image and why it is interesting.
Posted August 4, 2026
Moon Base
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Johnson Space Center
Marshall Space Flight Center
NASA Headquarters
NASA is making progress in building the Moon Base, which will become a resilient outpost near the Moon’s South Pole for science, technology, and eventual human operations.
Posted August 4, 2026
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Technicians installed a commemorative plaque, seen in this July 28, 2026, photo, on NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The plaque honors the legacy of Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, NASA’s first chief astronomer and one of the architects of the agency’s modern science program. It also features a memory card containing a total of 1,350,144 […]
Posted August 4, 2026
APOD
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 4 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss   APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
Posted August 4, 2026
Earth Observatory
Terra
Wildfires
Wildland fires in early August 2026 pushed air quality to unhealthy levels, destroyed hundreds of structures, and triggered mandatory evacuations in Spokane.
Posted August 4, 2026
Scientific Balloons
Goddard Space Flight Center
Wallops Flight Facility
Every spring in Palestine, Texas, the wide-open fields around NASA’s Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility fill with students and faculty from across Louisiana. They arrive carrying sensors, laptops, and carefully engineered payloads they have spent months preparing.
Posted August 3, 2026
Earth
Water on Earth
Twice each day, tides ebb and flow through a maze of sandy channels, mudflats, and mangrove forests that flank the 88 islands and islets of Guinea-Bissau’s Bijagós Archipelago (Arquipélago dos Bijagós in Portuguese). Seen from above in this image from Nov.
Posted August 3, 2026
Earth Observatory
Ice & Glaciers
Landsat 9
Snow
The expanse of glacial ice on Canada’s Baffin Island lost its snow cover quickly and early in summer 2026, revealing a network of melt features.
Posted August 3, 2026
Communicating and Navigating with Missions
Artemis
Commercial Space
Goddard Space Flight Center
Moon Base
Research and Technology Mission Directorate
Space Communications & Navigation Program
NASA delivered the NavCube3-mini payload on July 13 to Intuitive Machines for integration into Altus-1, the company’s first lunar relay satellite, marking an important milestone in the development of future lunar communications and navigation services. The lunar relays are designed to enable communications and navigation for astronauts and rovers o
Posted August 3, 2026
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