Video Credits: NASA/Rafael Luis Mendez Peña by Emily Schaller / ANGELES CITY, PAMPANGA, PHILIPPINES / NASA airborne scientists, engineers and pilots have exciting jobs studying and exploring Earth, but one thing that is not typically part of the job description is getting treated like a famous celebrity. However, for the past three weeks, signing autographs …
by Samson Reiny / ANGELES CITY, PAMPANGA, PHILIPPINES / There's a lot to get excited about on an airborne science campaign like the Cloud, Aerosol, and Monsoon Processes Philippines Experiment (CAMP2Ex). From watching data stream in from instruments observing fire smoke that had never been sampled in detail, to stunning imagery of the skies captured during flight, there are …
by Samson Reiny / ANGELES CITY, PAMPANGA, PHILIPPINES / Until now, no one had captured smoke plumes from a Borneo fire in all their chemical, radiative, and physical glory… My work partner in crime, Katy Mersmann, and I left Washington, D.C., Saturday morning and arrived at our hotel near Clark Air Base in Angeles City, …
NASA and Northrop Grumman coordinated with the U.S. Air Force Eastern Range for an earlier launch date for the agency's Ionospheric Connection Explorer, or ICON, spacecraft from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. ICON is now targeted for launch on Oct. 9, 2019, aboard a Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket carried by the company's …
NASA and Northrop Grumman currently are preparing the agency's Ionospheric Connection Explorer, or ICON, spacecraft and the Pegasus XL rocket at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California for ferry to the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida by the L-1011 Stargazer aircraft on Oct. 1, 2019. The launch has been rescheduled to Oct. 10, …
At just before 1:50 p.m. EDT on Sept. 1, 2019, NASA's Parker Solar Probe completed its third close approach of the Sun.
by Brenna Biggs / SKIES OVER CALIFORNIA / The world is full of diet and exercise plans. Eat less carbs, eat more carbs, practice yoga, go for a run. In my opinion, the most consistent way to burn calories is by working for the Whole Air Sampling (WAS) group in the Rowland-Blake lab. Fortunately, as …
by Maria-Jose Viñas / NORTHWEST TERRITORIES, CANADA "Oh, and here's a black spruce!" exclaimed Charlotte Weinstein, an assistant research scientist at Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI), while pointing at a delicate sapling barely the height of a thumb that was almost hidden among the tall grass. Weinstein and her colleague Shannon Rose, a research fellow …
by Joe Atkinson / SALINA, KANSAS / Time for a change of scenery. After nearly a month flying missions out of Boise, Idaho, to sample smoke from big wildfires in the western U.S., the Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality, or FIREX-AQ, is pulling up stakes and moving to America's heartland …
After Parker Solar Probe's successful first year in space, the mission team has decided to extend science observations as the spacecraft approaches its third solar encounter.
