Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) is an international satellite mission to provide next-... View Mission
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NASA Science Missions
The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-on (GRACE-FO) mission will allow scientists... View Mission
Hinode explores the magnetic fields of the Sun in order to improve understanding of what powers... View Mission
The Hubble Space Telescope's launch in 1990 sped humanity to one of its greatest advances in... View Mission
IBEX is the first mission designed to map the entire region of the boundary of our Solar System... View Mission
ICESat (Ice, Cloud,and land Elevation Satellite) is the benchmark Earth Observing System mission... View Mission
ICON studies the frontier of space: the dynamic zone high in our atmosphere where Earth weather... View Mission
InSight is a Mars lander mission planned for launch in spring 2016. InSight will investigate... View Mission
ESA's INTEGRAL is providing new insight into the most violent and exotic objects of the Universe... View Mission
Understanding the interface between the photosphere and corona remains a fundamental challenge... View Mission
The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) exploits the polarization state of light from... View Mission
Jason-3 is a satellite mission that supports scientific, commercial and practical applications... View Mission
The primary scientific goal of the Juno mission is to significantly improve our understanding of... View Mission
LAGEOS, or Laser Geodynamics Satellites, are a series of satellites designed to provide an... View Mission
Landsat 8 launched on February 11, 2013, is the eighth in the series of Landsat satellites... View Mission
A land imaging mission making critical observations of the long term environmental changes we... View Mission
LIS detects the distribution and variability of lightning to advance our understanding of the... View Mission
Lucy: the first mission to Jupiter’s Trojans, will launch in October 2021 and, with boosts from... View Mission
LRO was the first mission in NASA's plan to return to the Moon and then to travel to Mars and... View Mission
To seek signs of ancient life and collect samples of rock and regolith for possible return to... View Mission
NASA is participating in a mission of the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency... View Mission
Still in orbit around Mars, NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft has collected thousands of... View Mission
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, launched August 12, 2005, is on a search for evidence that... View Mission
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission will set down a sophisticated, large, mobile laboratory... View Mission
The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission was launched on November 18, 2013.... View Mission
MetOp is a series of three polar orbiting meteorological satellites developed and operated by... View Mission
MetOp is a series of three polar orbiting meteorological satellites developed and operated by... View Mission
MinXSS CubeSat will study the sun’s impact on Earth’s upper atmosphere by measuring soft X-rays... View Mission
MMS will investigate how the Sun's and Earth's magnetic fields connect and disconnect,... View Mission
Plankton ecosystems of the ocean are strongly interconnected with climate and life on Earth. A... View Mission