Chasma Boreale, a long, flat-floored valley, cuts deep into Mars’ north polar icecap. Its walls rise about 4,600 feet, or…
NASA’s DC-8 flying science laboratory lifted off Runway 25 at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, CA, during a science…
The NASA-DLR Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy 747SP dwarfs a ground crewman as it taxis to a stop on the…
Ground crewmen on the ramp at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., are dwarfed by…
The SOFIA aircraft is bathed by water from Air Force Plant 42 fire department trucks, outside its hangar in an…
These images show the effects of the tsunami on Japan’s coastline. The image on the left was taken on Sept.…
The High Altitude Monolithic Microwave Integrating Circuit Sounding Radiometer, or HAMSR, developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was a remote-sensing…
This image from NASA’s Real Time Mission Monitor showed the flight track of NASA’s Global Hawk over the Pacific Ocean…
An automated dropsonde deployment system, developed for NOAA by the National Center for Atmospheric Research, was installed on NASA’s Global…
NASA’s Terra satellite’s first view of northeastern Japan in the wake of a devastating earthquake and tsunami reveal extensive flooding…