Technology to ID sinkhole threats

Technology to ID sinkhole threats

New research from NASA indicates that technology could help to identify sinkholes before they happen. New analyses of NASA airborne radar data collected in 2012 reveal the radar detected indications of a huge sinkhole before it collapsed and forced evacuations near...
Mystery of the Mars rock solved

Mystery of the Mars rock solved

Researchers have solved the mystery of the now-infamous Martian rock resembling a jelly doughnut, dubbed Pinnacle Island, that was discovered on the Red Planet’s surface: it is a piece of a larger rock broken and moved by the wheel of NASA’s Mars Exploration...
Video tracks devastating storm

Video tracks devastating storm

A new NASA video of NOAA’s GOES satellite imagery shows three days of movement of the massive winter storm that stretches from the southern US to the northeast. Visible and infrared imagery from NOAA’s GOES-East or GOES-13 satellite from 10 February to 12...
The Earth rises over Mars …

The Earth rises over Mars …

New images from NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover show Earth shining brighter than any star in the Martian night sky. The rover’s view of its original home planet even includes our moon, just below Earth. The distance between Earth and Mars when Curiosity took...
The mystery of the Mars rock

The mystery of the Mars rock

NASA’s Curiosity rover has pictured a rock on the Mars surface – on a piece of ground where a previous photograph showed nothing. Before-and-after pair of images of the same patch of ground in front of NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity 13 days apart...