photo of lunar crater and surroundings
Close Me!

Melt or Rubble?

04.02.2013

This crater looked "filled in." Is this fill composed of solidified impact melt? Or simply a granular flow that originated by a slope failure?

  • hubble image of supernova remnant

    Hubble Sees the Remains of a Star Gone Supernova

    05.03.2013

    These thin, blood-red shells are actually the remnants from when an unstable progenitor star exploded violently as a supernova around 600 years ago.

  • map of IceBridge flight coverage over Greenland

    IceBridge 2013 Coverage

    05.10.2013

    Project IceBridge completed the 2013 Arctic campaign on May 2, with 26 land ice and sea ice research missions.

  • SDO image of solar prominence

    Graceful Eruption

    03.16.2013

    A solar prominence began to bow out and the broke apart in a graceful, floating style in a little less than four hours on March 16, 2013.

Goddard Tweets

What's happening now

  • 19 Jun 2013 Public Lecture: "Exotic Earths" Free lecture at the Library of Congress: "Exotic Earths: Exploring Planets Around Other Stars" by NASA scientist Avi Mandell

  • 24 Jun 2013 Build a Robot Institute This Event is for Teachers and Educators. Participants in the NRI will design, develop and deploy an autonomous rover.

  • 7 Jul 2013 Model Rocket Launches Like to build model rockets, but don't have a launch pad? Now you do! Come to Goddard — no fees to participate!

Universal Chaos

Words from the Universe are in there... somewhere! Can you find them?

Mars Science Laboratory Website

Jet propulsion Laboratory (JPL) website about the Mars Science Laboratory rover "Curiosity."

Ozone Hole Poster and Booklet

This poster illustrates data from five different missions that tracked the development of the ozone hole from space.

Goddard Internship Video

Goddard Senior Intern Grace Montalvo produced this video about internships at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., during her time at the center in summer 2012.
                                                                                                                                                                                         
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