Field Study Sheds New Light on Melt Zone
We look back on this bold undertaking, which featured helicopters, floating drifters plunging into holes in the ice, and all-night shifts operating a sonic boogie board under endless daylight.
We look back on this bold undertaking, which featured helicopters, floating drifters plunging into holes in the ice, and all-night shifts operating a sonic boogie board under endless daylight.
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The James Webb Space Telescope is the most powerful space telescope ever made – and the most complex one yet designed. Did you know that the telescope’s history stretches back […]
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NASA’s astronauts will take you on a journey to the International Space Station, exploring the life-changing experience of an orbital perspective.
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In this episode of Down to Earth, veteran astronaut Sunita ‘Suni’ Williams sits down with environmental studies student, Adrien Prouty, to discuss her previous missions, and what it was like […]
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Learn more about NASA’s Super Pressure Balloon technology and the type of science we fly during our Antarctic campaign.
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B-Line to Space: The Scientific Balloon Story is about NASA’s scientific balloons, which offer low-cost, near-space access for suspended payloads weighing up to 8,000 pounds.
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Former NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and astronaut Warren “Woody” Hoburg explore what it’s like to adapt to life on station.
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NASA Goddard scientists have made an exciting discovery on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. The team has definitively detected the molecule acrylonitrile in Titan’s atmosphere – a finding that has astrobiological […]
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In this episode of Down to Earth, NASA astronauts Chris Cassidy and Warren “Woody” Hoburg discuss the NASA and SpaceX Demo-2 mission, human spaceflight history, and the challenges of spacewalking.
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Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11 Commander and first person to walk on the moon, guides us through the history of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the half-century since its […]
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Meet Lucy as she prepares for the first-ever journey to the Trojan asteroids, a population of primitive small bodies orbiting in tandem with Jupiter.
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Watch a spacecraft deliver an asteroid sample to Earth! Our OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security–Regolith Explorer) spacecraft is approaching Earth, and on Sept. 24, 2023, it released […]
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