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• Fires Char New Guinea

  Emissions on both sides of the island are unusually high as human-set fires spread in a landscape parched by drought.

• NASA’s CASALS Instrument Bridges Gaps in 3D Maps of Earth’s Surface

  From orbit, today’s space-based laser instruments measure Earth’s forests and terrain one narrow line at a time. Between those lines are enormous gaps that include millions of acres of land scientists never directly measure. NASA’s CASALS instrument will blend machine learning with an ultra-compact lidar instrument to adaptively ‘sweep’ large swaths of Earth’s surface. This […]

• Extratropical Cyclone Whips Past Iceland

  The powerful low-pressure system formed over the North Atlantic out of the remnants of Hurricane Isaias.

• NASA’s SR-1 Freedom Advances with Progress on Nuclear Power Module

  Destined for Mars and beyond, NASA’s Space Reactor-1 (SR-1) Freedom will be humanity’s first fission-powered spacecraft to travel outside Earth’s orbit. Announced during NASA’s “Ignition” event, this mission will demonstrate nuclear electric propulsion in deep space, and progress is underway on its key element: the nuclear power module. To expedite development of the spacecraft, NASA […]

• Fires Arrive in the Amazon Rainforest

  During El Niño, a cascade of fires across the tropics begins in equatorial Asia and continues in the central and eastern Amazon.

• NASA Develops Batteries to Power Humanity’s Return to Moon

  If you’ve ever had your car start sluggishly, or not at all, on a particularly frigid winter morning, you know standard batteries do not like extreme cold. That’s why NASA researchers are working to develop a battery that could function in the brutal cold of the Moon’s South Pole, where nighttime temperatures plunge to minus […]

• Hurricane Simon Lurks Off the Mexican Coast

  Though it remained offshore, the storm lashed coastal areas with high winds and flooding—and produced remarkable rippling patterns in the upper atmosphere.

• Rains Swamp the Gandak River

  After days of torrential rain, the river rose to record-breaking levels in parts of Nepal and India.

• Powerful Storms Continue to Prowl the Pacific

  Hurricanes Polo and Nolo sent destructive effects ashore amid an active season in the northeastern and central Pacific.

• Reliable Robots: Meet Johnson’s Dexterous Robotics Team

  The idea of humans and robots working side-by-side in space was once the stuff of science fiction, but with NASA launching increasingly complex missions deeper into space, human-robot collaboration could become reality. Advanced robotic systems are critical for human spaceflight because they can enhance a crew’s performance and productivity while reducing risk and expanding the […]