The Mars mapping team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory live within the map, and they speak of the astronaut’s overview effect of seeing the Earth from space. They get to know the planet, get immersed in it,
The deep-space telescope caught itsfirst direct imageof another alien world. The planet is roughly 385light-yearsfromEarthand looks like a splotch beside the store HIP 65426. Webb saw the exoplanet using its Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and theMid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), which each look...
NASA FIRMS uses satellite observations from the MODIS and VIIRS instruments to detect active fires and thermal anomalies and deliver this information in near real-time to decision makers. This connector is available in the following products and regions: Expand table ServiceClassRegions Logic Apps St...
That development culminated with the surprise launch of the Soviet Union's Sputnik in 1957, the first-ever artificially made human satellite. NASA was also working on its own satellite under the auspices of the International Geophysical Year (from July 1, 1957, to Dec. 31, 1958). After sever...
NASA and Japan's space agency (JAXA) have officially launched the world's first wooden satellite into Earth orbit. The magnolia wood LignoSat is an attempt to make space junk biodegradable, potentially solving the growing problem of orbital debris.When...
NASA has just offered an update on its ambitious SPHEREx mission, which plans to map the entire sky from low-Earth orbit when it launches in the next couple of years. Read more Space Pollution-tracking NASA satellite shares its first images of air quality ...
For now, there are some 26 Atlas 5 rockets still in the NASA inventory, all of which have been dedicated to specific satellite launch missions and all of which are powered by RD-180 engines manufactured by and purchased from the Russians. While the RD-180 engines are proven and reliable, ...
To see a satellite image of the field of space debris that floats around the earth is like looking at fleas swarming an unfortunate dog. About a half-million pieces of debris are the size of a marble, but even tiny pieces that travel more than 17,000 miles per hour could be deadly to...
NASA Worldview provides the capability to interactively browse over 900 global, full-resolution satellite imagery layers and then download the underlying data. Use the embedded worldview home page below to try it out, or click on the "Open live content in a new tab" button in the top right...
California is sinking even faster than scientists had thought, new NASA satellite imagery shows. Some areas of the Golden State are sinking more than 2 inches (5.1 centimeters) per month, the imagery reveals. Though the sinking, called subsidence, has long been a problem in California, the rat...