The 1969 eruption at Mauna Ulu, a vent of Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii, was a spectacular example of fire fountaining, also known as an Hawaiian Eruption. Photo by D.A. Swanson, USGS, August 22, 1969. USGS image. Enlarge. More information. Pinatubo's Enormous Ash Column Mount Pinatubo erupte...
PREFIRE: A Mission to Map Polar Heat Emission About the size of a shoebox, the cube satellites, or CubeSats, comprise a mission called PREFIRE, short forPolar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment. Equipped with technology proven atMars, their objective is to reveal the full spectrum ...
The world is on fire. Or so it appears in this image from NASA’s Worldview. The red points overlaid on the image designate those areas that by using thermal bands detect actively burning fires. Africa seems to have the most concentrated fires.This could be due to the fact that these a...
Fire scientist Jenni Gibbons was named Tuesday (Nov. 22) as backup forJeremy Hansen, the CSA astronaut flying around the moon withArtemis 2in 2024. The CSA is a signatory to theNASA-ledArtemis Accordsthat has two purposes: peaceful space exploration norms and for some participants, moon mission...
Watch this cool NASA animation beautifully detailing every key step of Orion's First Launch! Orion is designed to take humans farther than they've ever gone before. Even farther into deep space than NASA's Apollo moon landing which ended more than four decades ago!
(an actual wildfire, housefire, or industrial heat sources like a factory smokestack) from strikes on military and logistical facilities. According to Def Mon, FIRMS “becomes less reliable during summer, since stuff burns for all kinds of reasons.” Like all satellites monitoring events o...
NASA has seen disasters take data centers offline—a fire in Canberra, snowstorms in Madrid, and power outages in Goldstone—so NASA needs its infrastructure to be robust enough to continue working through those sorts of problems. The opportunities—and challenges—are enormous. Until recently, huma...
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After a series of delays, the 322-foot-tall Artemis moon rocket finally blasted off with an eruption of white-hot fire and an earth-shaking roar
The subsurface oceans of the icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter remain our best bet for finding life elsewhere in the solar system. NASA is developing a roadmap for cryobots that could investigate these ocean worlds.