Heavy rainfall found in Tropical Storm Lorenzo by NASA
NASA calculated the rainfall rates in the Atlantic Ocean's newest tropical cyclone, Lorenzo.
NASA calculated the rainfall rates in the Atlantic Ocean's newest tropical cyclone, Lorenzo.
Environment
Sep 23, 2019
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While many NASA missions are tracking Hurricane Dorian as the storm makes its way toward the United States, some researchers are looking at what Dorian has already left behind.
Environment
Sep 4, 2019
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The fields of rippling ice 500 feet below the NASA plane give way to the blue-green of water dotted with irregular chunks of bleached-white ice, some the size of battleships, some as tall as 15-story buildings.
Earth Sciences
Aug 15, 2019
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NASA has selected two proposals for concept studies that could help us better understand the fundamental nature of space and how it changes in response to planetary atmospheres, radiation from the Sun, and interstellar particles. ...
Space Exploration
Aug 14, 2019
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Jeff Forbes is working on a research project slated for the International Space Station (ISS) to help us better understand and forecast conditions on the edge of space.
Space Exploration
Jul 30, 2019
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The Civil Rights Act had just passed and the slide rule was giving way to computers when Frances "Poppy" Northcutt arrived at NASA's Houston campus in 1965, eager to join the space race. But her job title stunned her: "computress."
Space Exploration
Jul 18, 2019
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November 8, 2018 was a dry day in Butte County, California. The state was in its sixth consecutive year of drought, and the county had not had a rainfall event producing more than a half inch of rain for seven months. The ...
Environment
Jul 9, 2019
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NASA's Apollo programme was one of the most challenging technological achievements in the 20th century. Beyond the space race and exploration, it contributed to several inventions and innovations that are still having an ...
Space Exploration
Jul 3, 2019
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Scavenging spare parts and grabbing off-the-shelf hardware, University of California, Berkeley, space scientists are in a sprint to build scientific instruments that will land on the moon in a mere two years.
Space Exploration
Jul 3, 2019
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From 1969 to 1972, six NASA missions named for the Greek god Apollo successfully landed 12 men on the surface of the moon; Neil, "Buzz," two men named Alan, two men named Charles, Edgar, David, James, John, Jack and Eugene.
Space Exploration
Jun 28, 2019
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