Science

The Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO) has been established as a core resource in the development and use of satellite observations through the integrating tools of models and assimilation systems.

Over 1,000 U.S. scientists use Goddard Space Flight Center supercomputers to develop Earth system models.

Largest organization of combined scientists and engineers in the United States dedicated to learning and sharing their knowledge of the Earth.

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Terra is helping scientists unravel the mysteries of climate and environmental change.

This program combines resources and scientific communities on an international scale using a complement of several missions, along with complementary ground facilities and theoretical efforts, to obtain coordinated, simultaneous investigations of the Sun-Earth space environment over an extended period of time.

These missions are fundamental elements in our global approach to understanding the Sun-Earth connections system.The missions focus on understanding the dynamics, short and long term, large and small, through active and quiet solar periods.

The IMAGE satellite is the first spacecraft dedicated to imaging the Earth's magnetosphere, a region of space controlled by the Earth's magnetic field that contains extremely tenuous plasmas of both solar and terrestrial origin.

A format adopted by the astronomical community for data interchange and archival storage. The FITS Support Office is responsible for documenting the FITS standard, participating in its evolution, and advising NASA astrophysics missions on how to present their data in FITS format.

NASA's STP program is a continuous sequence of flexible, cost-capped missions designed to systematically study the sun-Earth system. STP missions will focus on how and why the sun varies, and how Earth and the planets respond.

Provides access to a wide variety of astrophysics, space physics, solar physics, lunar, and planetary data from NASA space flight missions, in addition to selected other data, models, and software.

A NASA site for the general public featuring a collection of questions and answers on cosmology.

AERONET is an international network composed of more than a hundred of sunphotometers that covers a big part of Earth. This network is among others used to study the aerosols and to validate satellite data.

MPLNET,funded by the NASA Earth Observing System, is a worldwide network of micro-pulse lidar (MPL) systems providing long-term data sets of cloud and aerosol vertical distributions at key sites around the world.

The Laboratory for High-Energy Astrophysics contains many active research and instrument development groups. These pages link to the web sites for many of these groups.

This NASA research institute subdivision of the Goddard Space Flight Center is located near Columbia University in New York City. GISS is primarily engaged in studies of global climate change.

NASA's next-generation successor to the Hubble Space Telescope,is named in honor of the man who led NASA in the early days of the fledgling aerospace agency,and is scheduled for launch in 2010 aboard an expendable launch vehicle.

The National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) at Goddard Space Flight Center is NASA's primary deep archive site for planetary and lunar data obtained from spacecraft missions (both NASA and non-NASA), as well as the primary center for distribution of planetary data and images to educators and the general public. Fact sheets, photos, and tools.

The Space Physics Data Facility (SPDF) at Goddard Space Flight Center provides access to heliospheric magnetic field, plasma and spacecraft position data for each of many spacecraft.

Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) archive of science research. CMB data is an important aspect of research in cosmology.

WMAP is a NASA Explorer Mission that will measure the temperature of the cosmic background radiation over the full sky with unprecedented accuracy. This map of the remnant heat of the Big Bang will provide answers to fundamental questions about the origin and fate of our universe.

MAST supports a variety of astronomical data archives, with the primary focus on scientifically related data sets in the optical, ultraviolet, and near-infrared parts of the spectrum.

For scientists and astronomy enthusiasts seeking actual data from a multitude of space-based observatories. HEASARC is the primary archive for high-energy astronomy missions, in the extreme ultraviolet, X-ray and gamma-ray wavelengths.

A national resource for research in the Earth and Space Sciences.

Goddard hosts the S3C Active Archive, which consists of web services for survey and high resolution data, trajectories, and scientific models.

Latin for water, AQUA is a NASA Earth Science satellite mission named for the large amount of information that the mission will be collecting about the Earth's water cycle.

Large unmanned helium balloons for NASA.