The Surprising Power of a Solar Storm
Artist's concept of the TIMED spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JHU/APL A key NASA instrument that can directly measure the impact of solar events on the Earth’s upper atmosphere has weighed in on the huge...
View ArticlePolluting Space – Scientists Discover CO2 In The Upper Atmosphere
The figure depicts the ACE satellite observing the sun through Earth’s atmosphere. (Photo: ACE website, University of Waterloo) Oh great. So we’re polluting space now. Does this remind anyone else of...
View ArticleSaturday Space Sight: PUMA Headgear
NASA engineer Dan Dietrich and a team of scientists at Glenn developed the Portable Unit for Metabolic Analysis (PUMA) to monitor the oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide production rates of...
View ArticleSaturday Space Sight: The Close-up of Venus
NASA’s Mariner 10 mission took this first close-up photo of Venus. Made using an ultraviolet filter in its imaging system, the photo has been color-enhanced to bring out Venus’s cloudy atmosphere as...
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