Space : Science World Report

Apr 10, 2012 10:13 AM EDT

OceanScope: Private-science Collaboration to Provide Critical Ocean Information

A report highlighted in EOS, the American Geophysical Union's premier international newspaper, on April 3 proposes a formal partnership between the ocean-observing community and the global shipping industry for the systematic long-term study of the ocean water column from surface to depth.

Apr 10, 2012 06:51 AM EDT

Earth, This Is Space Station, Do You Hear Me?

Are you following Andre Kuipers' mission through his blog, Twitter or Flickr? Astronauts are sharing the privilege of being in space with the people back at home via social media. Communication with space stations has not always been so easy.

Apr 10, 2012 06:33 AM EDT

The Pit-chains of Mars â€“ a Possible Place for Life?

The latest images released from ESA's Mars Express reveal a series of 'pit-chains' on the flanks of one of the largest volcanoes in the Solar System. Depending on their origin, they might be tempting targets in the search for microbial life on the Red Planet.

Apr 09, 2012 12:44 PM EDT

12-Mile-High Martian Dust Devil Caught in Act

A Martian dust devil roughly 12 miles high (20 kilometers) was captured whirling its way along the Amazonis Planitia region of Northern Mars on March 14. It was imaged by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Despite its height, the plu...

Apr 09, 2012 11:43 AM EDT

Ice Floes Along the Kamchatka Coastline

The vantage point from orbit on the International Space Station (ISS) frequently affords astronauts with the opportunity to observe processes that are impossible to see on the ground. The winter season blankets the Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia in snow, but significant amounts of sea ice can also fo...

Apr 09, 2012 10:39 AM EDT

Evolving Sun Cells

One day in the fall of 2011, Neil Sheeley, a solar scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., did what he always does - look through the daily images of the sun from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).

Apr 07, 2012 01:47 PM EDT

Astronaut Vision Changes Offer Opportunity for More Research

Astronauts on the International Space Station are not allowing vision issues to keep them from completing their important tasks on the orbiting laboratory. In fact, they are taking advantage of the opportunity to study why weightlessness alters vision.

Apr 07, 2012 11:03 AM EDT

Dust Storm in the Taklimakan Desert

Dust storms continued in the Taklimakan Desert in western China through early April 2012. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite captured this natural-color image on April 5. Dust was thickest along the desert's southern margin.

Apr 07, 2012 08:07 AM EDT

NASA's TRMM Satellite Sees Tornadic Texas Storms in 3-D

NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite provides a look at thunderstorms in three dimensions and shows scientists the heights of the thunderclouds and the rainfall rates coming from them, both of which indicate severity.

Apr 05, 2012 12:52 PM EDT

Dark Heart of a Cosmic Collision

Infrared and X-ray observations from two space telescopes have been combined to create a unique look at violent events within the giant galaxy Centaurus A. The observations strengthen the view that the galaxy may have been created by the cataclysmic collision of two older galaxies.

Apr 05, 2012 10:46 AM EDT

GOES Satellite Movie Tracked Tornadic Texas Trouble

A powerful weather system moved through eastern Texas and dropped at least 15 tornadoes in the Dallas suburbs. NASA created an animation of data from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite that shows the frontal system moving through the region yesterday.

Apr 05, 2012 10:26 AM EDT

Satellite Observes Rapid Ice Shelf Disintegration in Antarctic

One of the satellite's first observations following its launch on 1 March 2002 was of break-up of a main section of the Larsen B ice shelf in Antarctica - when 3200 sq km of ice disintegrated within a few days due to mechanical instabilities of the ice masses triggered by climate warming.