Notes from the Field

The DEUCE payload stands vertical, moments away from being launched into space.

Sounding rockets provide a fast and cheap route to prove the viability of cutting-edge instrumentation.

Scientists journeyed to Utqiaġvik, Alaska, where they installed automated sensors to capture the region’s seasonal green-up.

It takes a village to send something to space.

The color red claims everything in East Arnhem Land, Australia, where scientists have gathered to launch a sounding rocket.

For students who want to take atmospheric science as literally as possible, it doesn’t get much better than flying in a NASA aircraft.

The CYGNSS constellation of 8 SmallSats was launched into low Earth orbit five years ago, on December 15, 2016. It began as a two year mission to study how well GPS signals reflected from the ocean surface can help us measure the winds in hurricanes and improve our ability to forecast them. Well, we’ve done […]

Following caribou and brown bear trails when possible, a small NASA-supported research team trekked 800 miles across Alaska’s Brooks Range in summer 2021.

One of the CubeSats launching with Landsat 9 is the Cusp Plasma Imaging Detector (CuPID), which will image the boundary where Earth’s magnetic field interacts with the Sun’s.