We would be entering Mars’s atmosphere, deploying two ballutes high up in the atmosphere to slow our descent, then fire the descent engine, cut the ballutes, deploy the landing legs and smoothly touch down on the surface of Mars. All of this would have to be completed (mostly)...
NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview and soil moisture data from Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) micro-satellites integrated with NASA’s model-based Land Information System. Story by Kasha Patel. The NASA SE...
Hence, the morning and afternoon data from Terra and Aqua MODIS are included in the Fire, BRDF/Albedo, Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity (LST&E), and Leaf Area Index (LAI) products, and the loss of the combination of a morning and afternoon overpass presents a challenge for continuity...
Susan and Lance Greninger called NASA becausethey had bought the box at an auction near the Kennedy Space Center. A Hazmat teamfrom the fire department examined the metal and said it was a solid piece ofdepleted uranium about the size of a child's fist. They closed the road in the front...