Science for Everyone Stories
NASA Student Airborne Research Program celebrates 15 years of success
This summer, NASA’s Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) will celebrate its 15th anniversary.
NASA’s C-20A deploys to Hawaii Following Volcanic Eruption
Following the eruption of the world’s largest active volcano, Mauna Loa, NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center deployed its C-20A aircraft to Kona, Hawaii, to gather images and data of the active lava flows for submission to the United States Geological…
America and the Sea of Serenity
Get out yourred/blue glasses andcheck out this stereo view of another world.Fifty years agothescene was recordedby Apollo 17 mission commanderEugene Cernan on December 11, 1972,one orbit before descending to land on the Moon.The stereo anaglyph was assembled from two photographs(AS17-147-22465,…
Mars Sample Return: Bringing Mars Rock Samples Back to Earth
NASA and the European Space Agency are developing plans for one of the most ambitious campaigns ever attempted in space: bringing the first samples of Mars material safely back to Earth for detailed study. The diverse set of scientifically curated…
NASA’s King Air Completes Oceanic Data Collection
Completing more than 80 hours of science flights, NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center’s B-200 King Air supports the Sub-Mesoscale Ocean Dynamics Experiment (S-MODE) in October. While normally stationed at NASA Armstrong in Edwards, Calif., the aircraft was temporarily stationed at NASA’s…
Join us on October 1-2, 2022 for the #SpaceApps Challenge
In celebration of the 2022 Space Apps theme, we invite you to “Make Space” with NASA and our global group of 11 space agency partners! Hear exclusively from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Australian Space Agency, Brazilian Space Agency,…
Webb’s First Deep Field
This is the deepest,sharpest infrared image of the cosmos so far.The viewof theearly Universetoward the southern constellation Volanswas achieved in 12.5 hours of exposure with the NIRCam instrument on theJames Webb Space Telescope.Of course the stars with six visible spikes…
The Solar System’s Planet Trails
Stars trail through a clear morning sky inthis postcard froma rotating planet.The timelapse image is constructed from consecutive exposures madeover nearly three hours with a camera fixed to a tripod besidethe Forbidden City in Beijing, China on June 24.Arcing above…
NASA Tracks COVID-19’s Atmospheric Fingerprint
The COVID-19-related lockdowns granted scientists an unexpected and detailed glimpse as to how human activities impact atmospheric composition. Two recent studies, one focusing on nitrogen oxide and the other examining CO2 concentrations, were able to detect the atmospheric ‘fingerprint’ of…
Planets Over Egyptian Pyramid
The early morning planet parade continues.Visible the world over, the planets Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Saturn have been lining up in the pre-dawn sky since mid-April.In the featured image taken last month, these planets were captured over the Step Pyramid…