NGC 3344 is a glorious spiral galaxy around half the size of the Milky Way. The galaxy features an outer ring swirling around an inner ring with a subtle bar structure in the center.
A Mixture of Sea Ice
10.13.2012
Sea ice imagery is used during NASA’s Operation IceBridge over Antarctica to detect areas of open water so that scientists can calculate the thickness of the surrounding sea ice.
Bright Prominence Eruption
12.27.2012
The Sun blows a robust prominence out into space on December 10, 2012
Curiosity Fully Analyzes First Soil Samples
12.28.2012
This is a view of the third (left) and fourth (right) trenches made by the scoop on Curiosity. The coarse sand visible here forms a thin crust in the "Rocknest" wind drift sand on Mars.
This website, presented by NASA’s Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission, provides students and educators with resources to learn about Earth’s water cycle, weather and climate, and the technology and societal applications of studying them.
This is the NASA Visualization Explorer—the coolest way to get stories about NASA's exploration of the Earth, sun, moon, planets and universe delivered right to your iPad.
Goddard Senior Intern Grace Montalvo produced this video about internships at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., during her time at the center in summer 2012.