Smart devices increasingly are an essential part of life on Earth. The same can be said…
Month: February 2014
Rapid mapping of floods
Floods across central Europe caused widespread damage in 2013. Maps based on satellite data can help…
NASA Announces 2014 Innovations in Climate Education Tribal Awards
NASA's Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) has awarded nearly $3 million in new cooperative…
NASA’s NuSTAR Untangles Mystery of How Stars Explode
One of the biggest mysteries in astronomy, how stars blow up in supernova explosions, finally is…
Martian Dunes Flying in Formation
Migratory birds and military aircraft often fly in a V-shaped formation. The “V” formation greatly boosts…
Searching for exoplanetary systems
The PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) mission will identify and study thousands of exoplanetary…
Media and Public Invited to View Virtual NASA Aeronautics Research Seminar
Media and the public are invited to view a six-day virtual technical seminar, Feb. 19 to…
Solar wing test
Before Sentinel-1 is shipped to Europe’s spaceport in French Guiana for launch, it has spent a…
Orbital Mechanics
ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen takes us to his Orbital Mechanics class at Star City, near Moscow,…