NASA Flies to Africa to Study Climate Effects of Smoke on Clouds NASA scientists and two research aircraft are on their way to a unique natural laboratory off the Atlantic coast of southwest Africa to study a major unknown in future climate prediction.
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NASA Using Aircraft to Measure Mid-Atlantic Greenhouse Gases NASA is conducting low-level aircraft flights measuring greenhouse gases over the mid-Atlantic region through September.
NASA Announces Media Briefing on New Hurricane Mission NASA will hold a media briefing at 1 p.m. EST Thursday, Nov. 10, to discuss the upcoming Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) mission, a constellation of eight microsatellites that will gather never-before-seen details on the formation and intensity of tropical cyclones and hurricanes.
NASA Small Satellites Set to Take a Fresh Look at Earth Beginning this month, NASA is launching a suite of six next-generation, Earth-observing small satellite missions to demonstrate innovative new approaches for studying our changing planet.
NASA Set to Launch New Fleet of Hurricane-Tracking Small Satellites NASA is set to launch its first Earth science small satellite constellation, which will help improve hurricane intensity, track, and storm surge forecasts, on Dec. 12 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Speeds Toward Asteroid Rendezvous NASA’s first asteroid sampling mission launched into space at 7:05 p.m. EDT Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, beginning a journey that could revolutionize our understanding of the early solar system.
NASA to Hold Media Call on Evidence of Surprising Activity on Europa NASA will host a teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT Monday, Sept. 26, to present new findings from images captured by the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope of Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa.
NASA’s Hubble Spots Possible Water Plumes Erupting on Jupiter’s Moon Europa Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have imaged what may be water vapor plumes erupting off the surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa. This finding bolsters other Hubble observations suggesting the icy moon erupts with high altitude water vapor plumes.
NASA’s LRO Mission Presents ‘The Moon and More’ NASA’s LRO Mission Presents “The Moon and More
Earth’s Moon Hit by Surprising Number of Meteoroids The moon experiences a heavier bombardment by small meteoroids than models had predicted, according to new observations from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft.