For more than 50 years, satellites in the NASA–USGS Landsat program have been quietly documenting the fragile edge where land meets sea. Their long view has revealed both decline and resilience: mangroves in Florida struggling to recover after hurricanes, eelgrass meadows in[...]
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On This Day | Celebrating the First Lap
While men live, nothing can tarnish the exploit of Col. Glenn and the 30,000 teammates whose toil and devotion and competence backed him up. But if, as the emotional wave he stirred gives us [...]Read More... from On This Day | Celebrating[...]
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Watch & Learn: The Mind-bending Math Inside Black Holes
Black holes: the cosmic enigma that bends reality and ignites our imaginations. Ronald Gamble, a theoretical astrophysicist at NASA, merges math and creativity to decode their mysteries. Ready to plunge beyond the point of no return? Dive in with NASA’s Curious Universe[...]
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49 years ago: Apollo 1 Astronauts Sacrifice Lives for Exploration of Space
Next month will mark the 49th anniversary of the Apollo 1 tragedy in which the lives of three astronauts were lost. It was a pivotal moment for the space program and one from which many valuable lessons were learned. Get the story[...]
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The World is Quickly Running out of Water, New NASA Study Says
It’s not a problem we’ve had to deal with recently here in North Dakota, but in other parts of the world water shortages are growing concern. And a new study by NASA suggests that many of world’s aquifers are being rapidly depleted.[...]
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NASA Awards Up to $750,000 to UND for Aerospace Research
UND Was awarded $750,000 over three years to build a research station focused on NASA’s work in Earth science, aeronautics, and deep space exploration. The funds are made available through NASA’s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) program, which awards Research[...]
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NASA Tests Aircraft That Hovers like a Helicopter, and Flies like a Plane
NASA has successfully tested an unmanned aircraft that takes off and lands like a helicopter, but flies like a fixed wing airplane. Watch the video below. [...]Read More... from NASA Tests Aircraft That Hovers like a Helicopter, and Flies like a Plane
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NASA’s Huge Image of a Tiny Section of Space (Video too)
Space is big, staggeringly so, uncomprehendingly so, and NASA has just delivered a picture that hammers the point home… just in case you hadn’t thought about it in a while. The image, captured with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is the largest[...]
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Mapping the Water Under Our Feet
What do you get when you put NASA and NOAA Scientists in the same room? Admittedly, there are a lot of potential answers to that question, but in this case, the answer is a high-tech satellite designed to measure the amount of[...]
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WATCH: If CO2 Emissions Were Visible…
Global warming or global cooling, overblown media hype or apocalyptic future… whatever your take on the global climate change issue is, you can’t deny the fact that over the past 150 years or so our species has been adding things to the natural[...]
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Ughh… NASA Builds $350 Million Test Tower, Then Locks Doors
The tower was designed to test a rocket engine in a facility that mimicked the vacuum of space. The only problem, the rocket program it was designed for was canceled in 2010. [...]Read More... from Ughh… NASA Builds $350 Million Test Tower,[...]