09.11.08 - MOFFETT FIELD – Ames remembered the tragic events of Sept .11, 2001 during an emotional ceremony held seven years to the day the tragedy occurred.
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In an effort to better understand the chemical nature of smog and greenhouse gases, scientists from the California Air Resources Board, CARB are collaborating with NASA scientists who are flying specially configured aircraft -- the DC-8 and the P-3 -- up and down the California coast this month and over the Central valley at varying altitudes.
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05.19.08 - What better place to generate ideas on shaping the future of NASA’s role to inspire, innovate and explore space than California, a state that is home to three of NASA’s 10 field centers, prestigious academic institutions and groundbreaking innovation powerhouses?
03.26.08 - Could microbial life exist inside Enceladus, where no sunlight reaches, photosynthesis is impossible and no oxygen is available?
09.19.07 - Think you have to be a scientist to contribute to cutting-edge Mars research? Think again!
06.14.07 - In 2008, NASA's Phoenix spacecraft is scheduled to land in the northern plains of Mars to determine if that environment could support life in the past or in geologically recent times.
06.06.07 - Finding defects in rotating machinery will be quicker and easier, thanks to two new NASA computer programs and an award-winning technical paper that describes them.
05.14.07 - For the past 30 years, NASA scientists have been using high-tech satellite equipment to study features on the face of Mars. It appears a slight change in the planet’s surface luster has caused its temperature to rise.
Some NASA Ames Research Center scientists take expeditions on Earth to prepare for future missions to distant moons and planets. From testing robots to trying out new procedures, scientists and engineers simulate extraterrestrial missions on our planet. Scientists also take expeditions to examine extreme forms of life on Earth. Those living things may well be similar to potential life on other worlds, according to astrobiologists. To learn more, visit the NASA Ames "Expeditions" pages.
05.09.07 - A spacecraft called Phoenix is destined to land on Mars in 2008, seeking to unravel some of the mysteries of the red planet.
05.08.07 - Using images from the Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers can now estimate the weather of a Jupiter-like exoplanet as it orbits a Sun-like star that is about 60 light-years away.
04.23.07 - Lissauer has discovered moons, rings and extra-solar planets – planets beyond our solar system.
04.16.07 - Sharmila Bhattacharya, of the Space Biosciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., also is the principal investigator for the space shuttle flight experiment, "Fly Immunity and Tumors" (FIT), that flew on STS-121 on July 4, 2006. She holds master’s and doctorate degrees in molecular biology from Princeton University and has conducted post-doctoral research in neurobiology at Stanford University.
A compilation of feature stories, multimedia resources and the people involved with the Kepler mission.
04.10.07 - Nathalie Cabrol, a NASA Ames/SETI Carl Sagan Center scientist who specializes in planetary geology, is one of the key figures in a new book by Lee Gutkind entitled “Almost Human, Making Robots Think.”
04.06.07 - Before scientists can hypothesize about life on Mars, they must first explain how liquid water can exist in such a cold, dry place. To search for clues, researchers traveled to the most Mars-like conditions on Earth.
03.30.07 - NASA scientists are studying ways to improve space medicine to tackle space travel's medical challenges. One effort is to develop 'image fusion.' In this process, clear, sharp x-rays and other high-resolution, scanned images of astronauts taken on Earth will be combined with less sharp sonograms taken onboard spacecraft to enhance those images.
NASA study finds new kind of organics in Stardust mission samples.
› Go to Segment 103.27.07 - David Morrison is the senior scientist at the NASA Astrobiology Institute, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., where he participates in a variety of research programs in astrobiology -- the study of the living universe.