
ICESat-2 uses lasers and a very precise detection instrument to measure the elevation of Earth’s surface. Launch: Sept. 2018Operating Network:…

The GRACE-FO mission is a partnership between NASA and the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ). GRACE-FO is a successor…

JPSS is a new generation polar-orbiting operational environmental satellite system. JPSS is a collaborative program between the National Oceanic and…

JPSS is a new generation polar-orbiting operational environmental satellite system. JPSS is a collaborative program between the National Oceanic and…

This image shows an artist concept of the trajectory of NASA’s MAVEN mission as it approaches the Red Planet.

Sept. 18, 2014 – A view from above shows a crane being used to lower the 175-ton crane inside the…

Astronaut Jay Apt installed the Mechanics of Granular Materials (MGM) during Space Shuttle mission STS-79.

This red plane is a DHC-3 Otter, the plane flown in NASA’s Operation IceBridge-Alaska surveys of mountain glaciers in Alaska.Over…

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, along with NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold and other guests, answer student questions during an educational…