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Shadowed crater on the Moon.

Metamorphosis of Moon’s Water Ice Explained

06.19.2013
Using data gathered by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission, scientists have explained how energetic particles penetrating lunar soil can create molecular hydrogen from water ice.
Thumbnail of globe with vegetation imagery

Vegetation as Seen by Suomi NPP

06.19.2013
Images from a year’s worth of data collected by the Suomi NPP satellite provide a vivid depiction of worldwide vegetation. Suomi NPP is a partnership between NASA and NOAA.
Terra image of southwestern Alaska fires

Wildfires in Southwestern Alaska

06.18.2013
On June 16, 2013, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image of wildfires burning in a remote part of southwestern Alaska.
Artist's conception of LRO orbiting the Moon.

NASA's LRO: Four Years in Orbit

06.18.2013
During the past four years, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed that the moon is a more complex and dynamic world than we had ever expected.
GOES-13 image of Tropical Depression 02

Hurricane Season 2013: Barry (Atlantic)

06.17.2013
The second tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season formed close to where the second storm of the Eastern Pacific season died, in the Bay of Campeche.
Aqua satellite image of Tropical Deptression 04W

Tropical Depression 04W (Northwestern Pacific Ocean)

06.17.2013
NASA Satellite Sees Developing Tropical Depression Near Philippines
Aqua image of Silver fire

Pyrocumulus Cloud Billows From N.M. Fire

06.17.2013
The Silver fire burning east of Silver City, New Mexico, in addition to producing gray smoke plumes, spawned a pyrocumulus cloud—a tall, cauliflower-shaped cloud that billowed up above the smoke.
Aqua image of Australia

Fires in the North of Western Australia

06.15.2013
Since Australia is heading into their winter as the northern climates head into summer, the north of Western Australia is ripe for bushfires and many have already begun.
Inner zone of the accretion disk of a stellar-mass black hole.

NASA-Led Study Explains Decades of Black Hole Observations

06.14.2013
A new study by astronomers at NASA, Johns Hopkins University and the Rochester Institute of Technology suspicions about how stellar-mass black holes produce their highest-energy light.
JWST

NASA'S Webb Telescope Flight Backplane Section Completed

06.14.2013
The center section of the backplane structure that will fly on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been completed, marking an important milestone in the telescope's hardware development.
Thumbnail Aqua image of a well-defined plume of dust swept across the entire Atlantic Ocean on June 24, 2009.

HS3 Mission to Delve into Saharan Dust

06.14.2013
NASA's 2013 HS3 mission will investigate whether Saharan dust and its associated warm and dry air, known as the Saharan Air Layer favors or suppresses the development of tropical cyclones.
View of clean room containing four MMS observatories

MMS Achieves Major Mission Milestone

06.14.2013
The MMS team completed their first comprehensive performance test. Due to launch in late 2014, MMS will investigate how the sun and Earth’s magnetic fields connect and disconnect.
Photo of calving front of an ice shelf in West Antarctica.

Warm Ocean, Not Icebergs, Causing Most of Ice Shelves' Mass Loss

06.13.2013
Ocean waters melting the undersides of Antarctic ice shelves are responsible for most of the continent's ice shelf mass loss, a new study by NASA and university researchers has found.
Terra image of Colorado Fires.

Colorado Fires

06.13.2013
The Royal Gorge fire which began on June 11 has now consumed 3,100 acres. Twenty structures have been lost, however, the Royal Gorge Bridge is intact. This fire continues to burn west of Canon City.
Thumbnail of MODIS image of Colorado and New Mexico fires

Fires in Colorado and New Mexico

06.12.2013
The Royal Gorge fire in Colorado was first reported at 1 p.m. Tuesday June 11, south of the Royal Gorge Bridge and Arkansas River. It is estimated at 3800 acres.
This is an image of a lunar eclipse as viewed by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, with a model of the moon from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter replacing the lunar shadow.

The Moon and Sun: Two NASA Missions Join Images

06.12.2013
NASA visualizers created a unique eclipse image by combining the view from the Solar Dynamics Observatory with a model of the moon based on Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data.
image of the sun showing a CME

NASA Spacecraft Detect a Mars-Directed CME

06.12.2013
On June 11, the sun erupted with a coronal mass ejection that may travel pass Mars and may pass by NASA’s STEREO-A spacecraft.
Composite image from NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and the European Southern Observatory

Black Hole Naps Amidst Stellar Chaos

06.11.2013
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory caught signs of what appeared to be a black hole snacking on gas at the middle of the nearby Sculptor galaxy. Now,NuSTAR results imply it went dormant.
Landsat image of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez

Landsat Satellite Looks Back at El Paso, Forward to a New Mission

06.11.2013
Landsat 8 is operational and producing more than 400 images per day, adding to the deep archive collected since 1972.
Terra image of Arizona and New Mexico fires

Fourmile and Silver Fires in Arizona and New Mexico

06.11.2013
NASA's Terra satellite sees two fires burning in the Southwest....
Artist's conception of LRO orbiting the Moon.

NASA's Robotic LRO Spacecraft Provides Data for Human Exploration

06.11.2013
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is yielding information about the radiation environment humans will encounter as they venture into deep space.
TRMM image of Tropical Storm Yagi

Yagi (Northwest Pacific)

06.10.2013
NASA sees Tropical Storm Yagi spinning in the Western Pacific Ocean...
Thumbnail of map showing Xingu River Basin fires

Fire in the Xingu River Basin

06.10.2013
Over a recent study period, the Xingu River Basin saw more forests with repeated burning than nearly anywhere else in the Amazon.
UV image of the sun showing a flare

Sun Emits an M5.9 Solar Flare

06.08.2013
The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare which can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where communications signals travel. This disrupts the radio signals for as long as the flare is ongoing.
Photo of fire burning in forest

Amazon Forest Fire Risk to Increase in 2013

06.07.2013
University and NASA researchers predict that the severity of the 2013 fire season will be considerably higher than in 2011 and 2012 for many Amazon forests in the Southern Hemisphere.
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