QuikScat acquires all-weather, high resolution measurements of near-surface winds over global oceans using specialized microwave radar.Launch: June 1999Operating Network: Near…
Rosetta is a European Space Agency mission to orbit a periodic comet, 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, and dispatch a lander, called Philae, to…
Soyuz Commander and cosmonaut Maxim Suraev, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman and European astronaut Alexander Gerst will launch aboard the Soyuz…
SAC-D characterizes salinity variation and investigates the linkage between ocean circulation, the Earth’s water cycle, and climate variability.Mission Duration: June…
Astronomers have found cosmic clumps so dark, dense and dusty that they throw the deepest shadows ever recorded. The clumps…
The largest crater associated with a March 2012 impact on Mars has many smaller craters around it, revealed in this…
This image from the Mars Color Imager (MARCI) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has a dark spot (at center…
One of the Expedition 39 crew members aboard the International Space Station recorded this still image of the Aurora Australis…
In the European Space Agency’s Columbus module, Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA prepares to access a tool box designated…
NASA astronaut Steve Swanson, Expedition 39 flight engineer, works with NanoRacks hardware in the Kibo laboratory of the Japan Aerospace…
