Goddard’s Veterans Advisory Committee (VAC) partnered with the Asian Pacific American Advisory Committee (APAAC) to co-host the Goddard Memorial Day commemorative event and recognition of Asian Pac...
NASA's Landsat Satellite Looks for a Cloud-Free View
For decades, Landsat satellites have documented the desiccation of the Aral Sea in Central Asia. Once one of the largest seas in the world, it shrunk to a tenth of its original volume after Rus...
NASA's GROVER Debuts On Greenland’s Ice Sheet (Our GROVER has a Grover!) -- NASA's new Earth-bound rover began testing on the Greenland ice sheet this week.
GROVER, which stands for both Greenland Rover and Goddard Remotely Operated Vehicle for E...
Lightning Flashes and Gravity Waves in Tropical Cyclone Mahasen - Tropical Cyclone Mahasen is moving north through the Indian Ocean along a track that places landfall along the Bangladesh coast on May 16th around 1200Z. On May 13, 2013 the Suomi N...
Repairing the Station in Orbit --- Expedition 35 Flight Engineers Chris Cassidy (pictured) and Tom Marshburn (out of frame) completed a spacewalk at 2:14 p.m. EDT May 11, 2013 to inspect and replace a pump controller box on the International Space...
Solar Eclipse's Shadow on Earth - NASA's Terra satellite didn't observe the May 2013 eclipse directly, but it did see the moon's shadow darkening the region northeast of Australia including the Solomon Islands.
The sun is about to come up over the South Pacific Ocean in this colorful scene photographed by one of the Expedition 35 crew members aboard the Earth-orbiting International Space Station between 4 and 5 a.m. ...
NASA EVEX Experiment Launches from the Marshall Islands - Red and white vapor clouds filled the skies over the Marshall Islands as part of NASA’s Equatorial Vortex Experiment (EVEX). The red cloud was formed by the release of lithium vapor and the...
A view of the fire in Southern California from our friend @sherisalata. She captured this image from an airplane on Friday, May 3rd. Some details from @usatoday - "A #wildfire tearing through a coastal region in Southern California nearly tripled...
Engineers worked meticulously to implant the James Webb Space Telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument into the ISIM, or Integrated Science Instrument Module, in the cleanroom at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. As the successor to ...
Gigantic Rolling Wave Captured on the Sun - A coronal mass ejection (CME) erupted from just around the edge of the sun on May 1, 2013, in a gigantic rolling wave. CMEs can shoot over a billion tons of particles into space at over a million miles p...
This spectacular, vertigo inducing, false-color image from NASA's Cassini mission highlights the storms at Saturn's north pole. The angry eye of a hurricane-like storm appears dark red while the fast-movin...
The spinning vortex of Saturn's north polar storm resembles a deep red rose of giant proportions surrounded by green foliage in this false-color image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Measurements have sized the eye at a staggering 1,250 miles (2,0...
This image of Saunders Island and Wolstenholme Fjord with Kap Atholl in the background was taken during an Operation IceBridge survey flight in April, 2013. Sea ice coverage in the fjord ranges from thicker, white ice seen in the background, to th...