NASA regularly captures data about Gulf Coast fluctuations, measuring change as well as ongoing loss of land. These measurements are particularly helpful after storms and hurricanes to understand wetland change and obtain a complete picture of coastal zone change.
World's Largest Groundwater Basins in Distress
Human consumption is rapidly draining some of its largest groundwater basins, yet there’s little to no accurate data about how much water remains in them, according to two new studies led by UC Irvine that use data from NASA Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment...
The Mysterious ˜Lakes' on Saturn's Moon Titan
Saturn’s moon Titan is home to seas and lakes filled with liquid hydrocarbons, but what forms the depressions on the surface? A new study using data from the joint NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) Cassini mission suggests the moon’s surface dissolves in a...
NASA Awards $5 Million to UTEP to Develop Next Generation Rocket Engines
EL PASO, Texas, May 29, 2015 — The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) has been awarded a $5 million grant from NASA to develop the next generation of rocket engines using liquid methane. The methane-based rocket technology would be used for in-space propulsion...
Airbus Defence and Space Begins Building Grace-FO Climate Satellites
May 26, 2015 — Airbus Defence and Space, the world’s second-largest space company, has successfully completed the development and design phase of the Grace-FO (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment follow-on) satellites. Following delivery of the highly stable...
Ball Aerospace Instrument Setting Gold Standard for Accuracy on Global Precipitation Measurement Mission
BOULDER, Colo., April 3, 2015 -- The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission Core Satellite's Microwave Imager (GMI) built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. under contract for NASA has performed flawlessly in its first year on orbit as the most...
Manchester Climate Instruments Take a Ride on NASA's Global Hawk
March 18, 2015 — The unmanned aircraft, based at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Centre, California, can fly at twice the height of Mount Everest and double the altitude of a commercial jet for more than a day at a time, travelling the equivalent of half of the...
NASA, JAXA Measure Rain and Snow
Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observatory, a joint Earth-observing mission between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), launched Feb. 27, 2014.
NASA, JAXA Prepare Rain and Snow Satellite for Launch
Greenbelt, Md., Jan. 27, 2014—The world enters a new era of global weather observing and climate science in February with the launch of the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory, a new international science satellite built by NASA. GPM, a joint...
NASA, Swedish National Space Board Establish Cooperative Agreement to Test High-Performance Green Propulsion Technology
SOLNA, Sweden, Oct. 29, 2013—The Swedish National Space Board (SNSB) and the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have signed a bilateral cooperative agreement for NASA to test and evaluate the 5-Newton and 22-Newton High Performance Green...