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August 12, 2009 Satellites Unlock Secret to Northern India's Vanishing WaterUsing NASA satellite data, scientists have found that groundwater levels in northern India have been declining by as much as 33 centimeters (1 foot) per year over the past decade. |
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August 12, 2009 Space Telescopes Find Trigger-Happy Star FormationA new study from two of NASA's Great Observatories provides fresh insight into how some stars are born, along with a beautiful new image of a stellar nursery in our Milky Way galaxy. |
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August 12, 2009 Mars Orbiter Shows Angled View of Martian CraterThe high-resolution camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has returned a dramatic oblique view of the Martian crater that a rover explored for two years. |
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August 11, 2009 JPL Blog: Five Things About Viewing Mars in AugustFor the last few years, e-mails have cirulated in August promising wonderful views of Mars. JPL outreach specialist and amateur astronomer Jane Houston Jones is here to set the record straight. |
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August 10, 2009 Science Operations ResumeNASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been restored to full operations, making intensive science observations of Mars, four days after it unexpectedly switched to its backup computer. |
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August 10, 2009 Meteorite Found on Mars Yields Clues About Planet's PastNASA's Mars Rover Opportunity is investigating a metallic meteorite the size of a large watermelon that is providing researchers more details about the Red Planet's environmental history. |
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August 10, 2009 Planet Smash-Up Sends Vaporized Rock, Hot Lava FlyingNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found evidence of a high-speed collision between two burgeoning planets around a young star. |
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August 7, 2009 Orbiter Safe After Computer SwapNASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is in safe mode, a precautionary standby status, and in communications with Earth after unexpectedly switching to its backup computer on Thurs. Aug. 6. |
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August 7, 2009 NASA Goes Inside a Volcano, Monitors ActivityScientists have placed high-tech "spiders" inside and around the mouth of Mount St. Helens, the site of the most active volcano in the United States. |
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August 7, 2009 Revelations in Saturn's Rings Continue as Equinox ApproachesSaturn continues its march towards its August 11 equinox, recent images captured by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft are revealing new three-dimensional objects and structures in the planet’s otherwise flat rings. |
All 2009 releases
