On July 29, a week-long workshop led by scientists at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. will provide intense training for teachers from around the world who are interested in learning how to excite their students with lessons that use authentic NASA research.
Shannon Kondos, a Punta Gorda elementary school teacher, has teamed up with NASA Langley Research Center to provide valuable observations that will validate some of their most prominent satellite instruments, and she doesn't even have to leave the sunny schoolyard of Good Shepherd Day School.
Scientists used the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder, or AIRS, instrument on NASA's Aqua spacecraft to collect the newly released measurements of factors that affect our climate, such as levels of water vapor and other greenhouse gases, ozone and concentrations of airborne dust.
A NASA researcher has developed a new model that uses data from satellite remote sensing of crop growth and food prices to anticipate food shortages brought on by drought.
Strong winds are fueling Oregon's Egley Complex and Monument Complex wildfires, seen in an image captured by the Moderate Resolution Image Spectrometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite on July 16, 2007.
An instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite captured an image of the severe wildfires that raged across the western United States on Sunday, July 8.
More than two weeks of heavy rains have triggered severe flooding throughout the Midwest.
A devastating fire tore through northeastern Utah, forcing hundreds to evacuate.