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Glossary AOS Home AOS Mission Mission Overview Spaceborne Architecture Science Applications Resources Images and Documents Acronyms Glossary Term Description Absorption In terms of energy, the interception of radiant energy or sound waves. Active sensor Active sensors provide their own source…
Mission Overview The Atmosphere Observing System (AOS) will provide measurements that are critical for clarifying aerosol and cloud processes that drive extreme weather and climate change. AOS Home AOS Mission Mission Overview Spaceborne Architecture Science Applications Resources Images and Documents Acronyms Glossary A dedicated team from several NASA…
Spaceborne Architecture AOS mission instrumentation and launch details AOS Home AOS Mission Mission Overview Spaceborne Architecture Science Applications Resources Images and Documents Acronyms Glossary Spacecraft AOS-Sky | AOS-Storm (pre-decisional) | HAWCsat | PMM International contributions are marked with flags. Other…
In many parts of the country, there are new work requirements to get food aid. But starving people doesn’t motivate them – despite centuries of this rhetoric For more than 200 years, common wisdom and policymakers have assumed that to…
When a new treaty to protect biodiversity in international waters, or the high seas, takes effect in January, there’s an open question about how it will interact with the regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs) that govern fishing there. Most RFMOs…
The Congo Basin, the world’s largest tropical rainforest after the Amazon, is under mounting pressure. The Congo’s vast green canopy, stretching across six countries and storing more carbon than the Amazon, is vanishing at an alarming rate — losing an…
This artist’s concept depicts the boundary of the Sun’s atmosphere, known as the Alfvén surface. The area appears to shift between spiky and frothy, and it is the point of no return for material that escapes the Sun’s magnetic grasp.…
Gaza has been hit by heavy rains and low temperatures in recent days, deepening the misery of most of its 2.2 million population who are living in tents after two years of Israeli bombardment. Thousands of homeless people have been…
Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA; Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured an uncommon sight – the death of a low-mass star – in this image of the Calabash Nebula released on Feb. 3, 2017. Here, we can see…
Gregory T. Horvath NESC Chief Engineer at KSC Mr. Gregory Horvath began his NASA career in 1987, serving as a Cryogenics Systems Engineer for the Space Shuttle Program. After a decade, he transitioned to International Space Station (ISS) support in…