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Earth Science
NASA’s Earth Observing fleet continues to age gracefully. While several new missions have joined the fleet in the past year, scientists and engineers work to extend the life of existing missions and maximize their science along the way.
Posted March 20, 2025
Earth Science
Expanded coverage of topics from “The Editor’s Corner” in The Earth Observer On December 18, 2024, Terra — the first EOS Flagship mission — celebrated the 25th anniversary of its launch from Vandenberg Space Force (then Air Force) Base.
Posted March 20, 2025
Ames Research Center
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
General
Space Technology Mission Directorate
Imagine your car is in conversation with other traffic and road signals as you travel. Those conversations help your car anticipate actions you can’t see: the sudden slowing of a truck as it begins to turn ahead of you, or an obscured traffic signal turning red. Meanwhile, this system has plotted a course that will […]
Posted March 20, 2025
Hubble Space Telescope
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sparkling spiral galaxy paired with a prominent star, both in the constellation Virgo. While the galaxy and the star appear to be close to one another, even overlapping, they’re actually a great distance apart. The star, marked with four long diffraction spikes, is in our own galaxy.
Posted March 20, 2025
Glenn Research Center
Careers
Events
Featured Careers
Life at NASA
Opportunities For Educators to Get Involved
Opportunities For Students to Get Involved
NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland welcomed more than 150 students and educators to showcase technical careers, inspire the next generation, and ignite a passion for learning during a Career Technical Education program March 11. “Here at Glenn Research Center, we love what we do, and we love to share what we do,” said Dawn […]
Posted March 20, 2025
Earth Science
Expanded coverage of topics from “The Editor’s Corner” in The Earth Observer Wind is a major factor in fire. It controls how fires evolve and pose threats to the safety of communities. Traditionally, data from weather balloons have been used to produce vertical soundings to define changes in atmospheric dynamics.
Posted March 20, 2025
Earth Science
Expanded coverage of topics from “The Editor’s Corner” in The Earth Observer Jack Kaye [NASA Headquarters—Associate Director for Research of the Earth Science Division] has received the 2024 William T.
Posted March 20, 2025
Droughts
Earth
Floods
Water on Earth
NASA’s radar-equipped jet is detecting ground movements to track snowmelt’s journey into California’s depleted groundwater aquifers.
Posted March 20, 2025
NASA Centers & Facilities
Langley Research Center
A tree that sprouted from a seed that journeyed around the Moon and back is growing at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.
Posted March 20, 2025
NASA History
Gemini III
Humans in Space
John W. Young
Virgil I. Grissom
“I hid a sandwich in my spacesuit,” Astronaut John W. Young confessed in the April 2, 1965, issue of Life Magazine. The conversation about and the consumption of the sandwich, which lasted only about 30 seconds during the Gemini III flight, became a serious matter that drew the ire of Congress and NASA’s administrator after […]
Posted March 20, 2025
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