This Envisat image was acquired over northern Chile’s Atacama Desert, the driest place on Earth outside…
MAKE THE NEXT GIANT LEAP
The NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC), with its Phase 1 call for proposals, invites those…
CREW ADDED TO 2nd SHUTTLE FLIGHT
NASA astronauts Lisa Nowak (Cmdr., U.S. Navy) and Stephanie Wilson are joining the crew of the…
Mediterranean Desertification
The severe droughts and forest fires of recent years underline Mediterranean Europe’s continuing vulnerability to desertification…
WETLAND CHANGES FLORIDA FREEZES
Scientists funded by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), used Landsat 5 satellite data to…
SATELLITE DATA HELPS GLOBAL CONSERVATION
NASA and IUCN – The World Conservation Union, the world’s largest environmental knowledge network, signed a…
Coprates Catena’s ‘collapsed’ structures
These images, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft,…
Agreement between JAXA and ASI
Dr. Tachikawa, the President of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), and Prof. Vetrella, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana…
Europe reaches the Moon
ESA’s SMART-1 is successfully making its first orbit of the Moon, a significant milestone for the…
HUMAN GENOME ACTIVITY
Results of NASA scientists’ recent research on human DNA are enhancing our knowledge about human genetics…