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CISTO Summer 2025 Interns Contribute to NASA Information Technology Tools and Capabilities
2025.08.27
Each year, the Computational and Information Sciences and Technology Office (CISTO) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center hosts a group of interns from multiple disciplines. This summer, 10 interns from across the continental United States and Hawaiʻi have been learning and contributing to NASA information technology tools and capabilities.
Key Global Model Forecast and Reanalysis Data Boost NASA Planetary Missions
2025.07.24
From Mars vehicles to OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return to Dragonfly slated to visit Saturn’s moon Titan, the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office and the NASA Scientific Computing Project's high-performance computing resources have been providing key weather forecast and reanalysis data to boost multiple NASA planetary missions.
NASA Enables Detectability Simulations of a Surface Biosignature on a Proxima Centauri b-Like Planet with Future Space Observatories
2025.05.29
The NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies' ROCKE-3D model, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Planetary Spectrum Generator, and the NASA Scientific Computing Project's high-performance computing resources combined to enable a study exploring the feasibility of searching for signs of life from the surface of a Proxima Centauri b-like planet.
Scientists Simulate the Electrical Dynamics of Thundersnow at NCCS
2025.03.19
In a first-of-a-kind study, NASA, university, and industry scientists simulated the electrical dynamics of thundersnow — lightning within snowfall — at the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS).
Going With the Flow: Visualizing Ocean Currents with ECCO
2025.03.03
Historically, the ocean has been difficult to model. This data visualization showing ocean currents around the world uses data from NASA’s ECCO model, or Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean. The model pulls data from spacecraft, buoys, and other measurements.
NASA Goddard Showcases Science and Technology at SC24 Conference
2024.12.19
SC24: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, held November 18–22 in Atlanta, Georgia, smashed all records with 18,104 attendees and 494 exhibits. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center contributed research projects, NASA 101 talks, and an Earth Information Center exhibit to NASA's popular exhibit.
Annual Science Conference to Highlight NASA Research
2024.12.06
NASA researchers will present findings on Earth science, planetary science, and heliophysics at the upcoming American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2024 annual meeting in Washington, DC, beginning on Monday, Dec. 9.
NCCS-Hosted Simulations Enable Exploring Prospects of Detecting Volcanic Signatures on ExoEarths
2024.09.26
The NASA Center for Climate Simulation enabled University of California, Riverside, and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center scientists to simulate large igneous province volcanic eruptions on Earth to define the atmosphere of a hypothetical Earth-like exoplanet (or exoEarth) for exploring the possibility of detecting volcanic signatures.
CISTO Summer 2024 Interns Take on AI and Other Challenges at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
2024.08.28
Summer interns grew their knowledge and agency capabilities by tackling AI and other technological challenges across the Computational and Information Sciences and Technology Office (CISTO) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
Tundra Vegetation to Grow Taller, Greener Through 2100, NASA Study Finds
2024.08.06
Warming global climate is changing the vegetation structure of forests in the far north. It’s a trend that will continue at least through the end of this century, according to NASA researchers. The change in forest structure could absorb more of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, or increase permafrost thawing, ...
Watch Carbon Dioxide Move through Earth’s Atmosphere
2024.07.23
This global map shows concentrations of carbon dioxide as the gas moved through Earth’s atmosphere from January through March 2020, driven by wind patterns and atmospheric circulation
Evaluating Proposed Next-Generation Satellite Instruments: Nikki Privé
2024.06.25
Continuing our occasional series, this NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) User Spotlight shines on Dr. Nikki Privé. The quasi-native Marylander currently works as a senior research scientist in the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
NASA Interns Blast Off for Their First Week at Goddard
2024.06.17
Across Goddard’s campuses, more than 300 on-site and virtual interns spend the 10-week program contributing across all manners of disciplines, science, engineering, finance, communications, and many more.
AI for Earth: How NASA’s Artificial Intelligence and Open Science Efforts Combat Climate Change
2024.04.18
As extreme weather events increase around the world due to climate change, the need for further research into our warming planet has increased as well. For NASA, climate research involves not only conducting studies of these events, but also empowering outside researchers to do the same. The artificial intelligence (AI) efforts spearheaded by the..
NASA Invites Media to 61st Annual Goddard Space Science Symposium
2024.03.14
Media are invited to attend the 61st annual Goddard Space Science Symposium (formerly the Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium), which will take place March 20-22, 2024, at the Brendan Iribe Center on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park. The symposium will also be streamed online.
Exploring Past and Future Tropical Cyclones in the Bay of Bengal with NASA High-End Computing
2024.02.21
Leveraging NASA High-End Computing resources, a team of NASA and university scientists undertook a study of past and future tropical cyclones in the Bay of Bengal — some of the most devastating natural events on Earth.
How NASA Deepened Our Understanding of Earth in 2023
2023.12.05
In 2023, The NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) and the NASA Science Managed Cloud Environment (SMCE) provided mission-critical, tailored computing resources to enable research and accelerate scientific discoveries that deepen our understanding of Earth and better prepare for its changing climates.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Shines at SC23 Conference
2023.11.30
At SC23: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis in Denver, Colorado, NASA Goddard scientists and technologists presented 12 research projects in NASA’s popular research exhibit.
Filling an Air Pollution Data Gap
2023.11.30
Many cities have shortages of air quality monitors. NASA scientists have developed a tool called GEOS-CF that can help.
Five Ways NASA Supercomputing Takes Missions from Concept to Reality
2023.11.13
NASA high-end computing plays a key role in taking many agency missions from concept to application in the real world.
NCCS Enables Realistic Simulations of Melting Snowflakes to Better Understand Rainstorms and Estimate Rainfall
2023.08.30
Although we most notice snow when it hits the ground, snow is also present in the upper levels of rainstorms and melts into rain as it falls through the atmosphere. The NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) is enabling complex, realistic simulations of melting snowflakes by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center scientists.
NCCS and EIS Enable Research on Flood Monitoring and Forecasting, Human Impacts on Louisiana Flooding – and Eventually, Across the Globe
2023.08.22
NASA Goddard research scientist Augusto Getirana and colleagues are leveraging NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) and NASA Earth Information System (EIS) resources to study massive flooding in Louisiana and develop techniques to measure the effects of climate-induced hydrological change, water management, and sea level rise.
NASA Software Catalog Offers Free Programs for Earth Science, More
2023.08.09
Each year, NASA scientists, engineers, and developers create software packages to manage space missions, test spacecraft, and analyze the petabytes of data produced by agency research satellites. As the agency innovates for the benefit of humanity, many of these programs are now downloadable and free of charge through NASA’s Software Catalog.
NCCS-Hosted Analysis Sheds New Light on Mercury’s South Pole
2023.07.25
Harnessing NASA MESSENGER spacecraft data and NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) cloud computing resources, scientists from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and collaborating organizations have created the first high-resolution topographic map of Mercury’s south pole.
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