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Apollo 16 view of the Earth in ultraviolet light

Earth's Shining Upper Atmosphere — From the Apollo Era to the Present

07.17.2019
In 1972, Apollo 16 astronauts stood on the Moon and took a picture of Earth like none before: the first view of our planet in far ultraviolet light. Nearly 50 years later, compare views of Earth’s shining ionosphere from the Apollo era to NASA’s present-day GOLD mission.
Photo of original sign being installed

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Celebrates 60 Years

04.29.2019
On May 1, 1959, the Beltsville Space Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, was renamed NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in honor of Robert H. Goddard, widely considered the father of modern rocketry. Thus began a 60-year boom in science and technological innovation.
Photograph of Robert Goddard at blackboard

NASA Invites Media to 57th Annual Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium

03.15.2019
Media are invited to the 57th Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium on March 20-21.
Artist's conception of MMS in orbit near the Earth

Discovering Bonus Science With NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Spacecraft

03.07.2019
MMS is flying out of its element to take ground-breaking measurements of something it was not originally designed for — turbulence in the solar wind.
animation of sounding rocket trajectory through aurora

To Catch a Wave, Rocket Launches From Top of World

01.28.2019
On Jan. 4, 2019, the CAPER-2 rocket flew through active aurora borealis, or northern lights, to study the waves that accelerate electrons into our atmosphere.
Photo of the aurora in Ny-Ålesund in late November 2018.

Toward Mapping the Atmosphere’s Escape from Earth

12.17.2018
A pair of sounding rockets took aim at the aurora over Svalbard, Norway, to help scientists understand how Earth loses oxygen into space.
Photo of one of the two VISION-2 Black Brant X rockets breaks through its protective insulating foam box as it leaves the launch pad from Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, in Norway.

VISIONS-2 Provides a Look at Earth’s Escaping Atmosphere

12.07.2018
Two NASA sounding rockets were successfully launched Dec. 7 from Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, in Norway providing scientist a look at the process of Earth’s atmosphere escaping into space.
Jupiter is shown with several important components of its magnetosphere in this artist's representation

Radio JOVE From NASA: Tuning In to Your Local Celestial Radio Show

12.04.2018
What does Jupiter sound like? If you had to take a guess, would you imagine the sharp staccato of popcorn popping? The slow static of waves reaching the shore? The universe is full of radio emissions, and all you need to hear them for yourself is a box the size of a DVD player.
To Image Leaky Atmosphere, NASA Rocket Team Heads North

To Image Leaky Atmosphere, NASA Rocket Team Heads North

11.30.2018
Earth's atmosphere is leaking-but how does oxygen get the energy to escape to space? NASA's VISIONS-2 rocket will soon launch into the unique magnetic environment near the North Pole in pursuit of an answer.
conceptual animation depicting an MMS observation of magnetic reconnection

NASA Keeps Watch Over Space Explosions

11.15.2018
NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale mission has been observing a type of space explosion called magnetic reconnection for three years. MMS just witnessed such an explosion in a unique location: the part of Earth’s magnetic environment trailing behind the planet, away from the Sun — with enough resolution to reveal its true nature more clearly.
Thumbnail image from a NASA supercomputing simulation

NASA Brings its Science and Supercomputing Advances to SC18

11.05.2018
From designing rocket launch pad components and safer rotorcraft to improving flood and drought forecasts to modeling the formation of planetary disks, NASA will highlight supercomputing advances at SC18, the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, Nov. 12 to 15 in Dallas.
screen capture of earth with ICON orbit shown

Counting Down to ICON's Launch

10.16.2018
NASA's Ionospheric Connection Explorer launches in October 2018 to study Earth's interface to space. Here are 10 key things to know about the mission.
Three NASA Missions Return 1st-Light Data

Three NASA Missions Return 1st-Light Data

09.21.2018
NASA’s continued quest to explore our solar system and beyond received a boost of new information this week with three key missions proving not only that they are up and running, but that their science potential is exceptional.
GOLD first light image

NASA’s GOLD instrument captures its first image of the Earth

09.17.2018
NASA's GOLD instrument powered on and opened its cover to scan the Earth for the first time, resulting in a “first light” image of the Western Hemisphere in the ultraviolet.
Black and white Suomi NPP satellite image of atmospheric light over the Great Lakes region of the United States

August Auroras Light Up North American Skies

08.30.2018
An unexpected aurora colored the skies of Canada and northern U.S. states.
Image of GaN photomultiplier arrow in someone's gloved hand

NASA Studies Space Applications for GaN Crystals

08.07.2018
An exotic material poised to become the semiconductor of choice for power electronics —- because it is far more efficient than silicon — is now being eyed for potential applications in space.
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