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NASA-ISRO Satellite Captures Pacific Northwest Through Clouds
1+ week, 2+ day ago (369+ words) Seattle and Portland, Oregon, are among the cloudiest cities in the United States. But that infamous cloud cover is no match for the U.S.-Indian Earth satellite NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar), which is designed to peer straight through clouds. Doing…...
See NASA’s GUARDIAN Catch a Tsunami
1+ week, 4+ day ago (428+ words) A new data visualization illustrates how an experimental NASA technology can provide extra lead time to communities in the path of a tsunami. Called GUARDIAN (GNSS Upper Atmospheric Real-time Disaster Information and Alert Network), the software detects slight distortions in…...
Lava Flows Down Mayon
2+ week, 3+ day ago (128+ words) At any given moment, about 20 volcanoes on Earth are actively erupting. Often among them is Mayon'the most active volcano in the Philippines. To Protect Artemis II Astronauts, NASA Experts Keep Eyes on Sun NASA's Artemis II Moon Mission Daily Agenda…...
A Technical Resource for the Agency
3+ week, 3+ day ago (188+ words) This article is from the 2025 Technical Update. The NESC's Thermal Control & Protection Technical Discipline Team (TDT) is a resource providing subject matter expertise in active and passive thermal control as well as ascent and entry thermal protection across the spectrum…...
COPV Damage Tolerance Life Demonstration Guidelines
3+ week, 3+ day ago (195+ words) This article is from the 2025 Technical Update. The NESC has invested significant time and resources to better'understand composite overwrapped pressure vessels'(COPV) performance and more importantly, how these complex, high-pressure storage systems can fail. These vessels, which store'high pressure propulsion…...
US-French Satellite Takes Stock of World’s River Water
4+ week, 2+ day ago (452+ words) Launched in 2022, SWOT'is a collaboration between NASA and the French space agency CNES (Centre National d'tudes Spatiales). It is the first satellite capable of surveying not only the ocean, but also nearly all the worlds lakes and rivers with ultraprecision....
Fatigue Countermeasures Laboratory
1+ mon, 13+ hour ago (239+ words) The mission of the'Fatigue Countermeasures Laboratory is to provide a better understanding of sleep and circadian rhythm-related issues as they affect NASA's Curiosity Rover Sees Martian "Spiderwebs' Up Close NASA Study to Analyze Fermented Food Samples from Space NASA's Webb…...
Sunglint on Atlantic Ocean
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (130+ words) The sun's glint beams off a partly cloudy Atlantic Ocean just after sunrise as the International Space Station orbited 263 miles above. NASA's Curiosity Rover Sees Martian "Spiderwebs' Up Close NASA Study to Analyze Fermented Food Samples from Space NASA's Webb…...
Sunlight Extracts Oxygen From Regolith Using Solar Chemistry
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (118+ words) Sunlight Extracts Oxygen From Regolith Using Solar Chemistry'NASA (.gov) NASA's Hubble Captures Light Show Around Rapidly Dying Star Core Survey by NASA's Roman Mission Will Unveil Universe's Dark Side What's Up: February 2026 Skywatching Tips from NASA What You Need to…...
Biospheric Science Branch Page
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (554+ words) The Biospheric Science Branch contributes to several NASA satellite missions with the goal to better understanding Earth's terrestrial and marine biospheres and atmosphere. Researchers within the biospheric science branch (Matthew Johnson, Claudia Bernier, and Arthur Mizzi) are leading the application…...