Climate (Page 10)

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim poses inside the International Space Station’s cupola as it orbits 265 miles above the Indian Ocean near Madagascar. Credit: NASA NASA astronaut Jonny Kim will recap his recent mission aboard the International Space Station during a news conference at 3:30 p.m. EST Friday, Dec. 19, fromContinue Reading

The New River Gorge bridge near Fayetteville, West Virginia, is the longest single-span steel arch bridge in the United States. Data from satellites like NASA’s NISAR will make it possible to track bridge health remotely to help ensure structural integrity of more than 60% of long span bridges worldwide. GaryContinue Reading

Governments and companies constantly face decisions about how to allocate finite amounts of money to clean energy technologies that can make a difference to the world’s climate, its economies, and to society as a whole. The process is inherently uncertain, but research has been shown to help predict which technologiesContinue Reading

NASA’s Center for Geospace Storms, or CGS, publicly released the cutting-edge MAGE (Multiscale Atmosphere-Geospace Environment) model, a supercomputing powerhouse that uses NASA mission data to reveal how different parts of geospace react to solar disturbances. The MAGE model will help space weather experts better predict how solar events impact Earth byContinue Reading

NASA’s TRACERS (Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites) mission has started collecting preliminary science data, including tandem measurements that are key to the mission’s science goals. One of the two satellites, Space Vehicle 2, completed commissioning and is fully operational. The other satellite, Space Vehicle 1, is also operating withContinue Reading

The New River Gorge bridge near Fayetteville, West Virginia, is the longest single-span steel arch bridge in the United States. Data from satellites like NASA’s NISAR will make it possible to track bridge health remotely to help ensure structural integrity of more than 60% of long span bridges worldwide. GaryContinue Reading

JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui points a camera out a cupola window and photographs external International Space Station hardware. The orbital outpost was soaring 263 miles above the Atlantic Ocean at the time of this photograph. NASA The Expedition 74 crew wrapped up the week exploring how the body balances itselfContinue Reading

Acronyms AOS Home About Mission Overview Spaceborne Architecture Science Applications Resources Images and Documents Acronyms Glossary Acronym Definition ACCP Aerosol, Cloud, Convection and Precipitation AEW Architecture Evaluation Workshop AIT Applications Impact Team AMES Ames Research Center AOS Atmosphere Observing System AR Assessment Report BOL Beginning Of Life BS Backscatter CBEContinue Reading

This artist’s concept depicts the boundary of the Sun’s atmosphere, known as the Alfvén surface. The area appears to shift between spiky and frothy, and it is the point of no return for material that escapes the Sun’s magnetic grasp. Deep dives through the Alfvén surface using NASA’s Parker SolarContinue Reading

Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA; Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured an uncommon sight – the death of a low-mass star – in this image of the Calabash Nebula released on Feb. 3, 2017. Here, we can see the star going through a rapid transformation from a redContinue Reading

Gregory T. Horvath NESC Chief Engineer at KSC Mr. Gregory Horvath began his NASA career in 1987, serving as a Cryogenics Systems Engineer for the Space Shuttle Program.  After a decade, he transitioned to International Space Station (ISS) support in Huntsville, Alabama, overseeing ISS Airlock for four years and supportedContinue Reading