As part of a science mission tracking one of Earth’s most precious resources – water – NASA’s C-20A aircraft conducted a series of seven research flights in
Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, flies over the Sierra Nevada Mountains
October 2020 issue of the Ames newsletter the Astrogram
Ice Caps Made of Methane, Turns Earth’s Process Upside Down by Frank Tavares The mountains
SpaceX’s Dragon cargo spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at 4:21 p.m. EDT (1:21 p.m PDT), approximately 300 miles southwest of Long Beach, California, marking the end of the company’s 18th contracted cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station for NASA. The spacecraft returned more than 2,700 pounds of valuable scientific experiments and …
Science and Cargo The SpaceX Dragon resupply ship is pictured above the Canadian Rocky
December 2017 issue of Ames‘ newsletter, the Astrogram
Credit: NASA Ames/Wendy Stenzel The newly-discovered Kepler-90i – a sizzling hot, rocky
Researchers have completed the first flights of a NASA-led field campaign that is targeting one of the biggest gaps in scientists’ understanding of Earth’s
Forest Service’s Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fort Collins, Colorado, who is
Set to launch next year, NASA’s Psyche mission marks the first time the agency has set out to explore an asteroid richer in metal than rock or ice.
iron-rich interior of an early planetary building block that was stripped of its outer rocky
The instrument will enable nonprofit organization Carbon Mapper to pinpoint and measure methane and carbon dioxide sources from space.
organization and its partners, including JPL, Planet, the California Air Resources Board, Rocky
Names: Nayeong Cho and Jaehwa Lee (husband and wife)Titles: Both atmospheric scientistsOrganization: Both Code 613, Climate and Radiation Laboratory, Earth
We visited several national parks along the way including Rocky Mountain, Arches
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goals of the field is the detection and characterization of “Earth 2.0”, i.e. a rocky
