NASA's Hurricane expert Dr. Jeff Halverson explains how NASA's GRIP mission is keeping a close eye on Hurricane Earl and other storms over the Atlantic. Scientists use data collected from NASA's DC-8, Global Hawk and WB-57 aircraft to...

NASA scientists have just begun the most recent leg of the Operation IceBridge Mission, an unprecedented six-year mission to study the Earth's polar regions, not through the lens of a satellite, but from onboard an airplane. In fact,...

A group of scientists and pilots conducted a series of science flights over Western Colorado for a new five-year NASA-led airborne mission called SnowEx. SnowEx is exploring better ways to measuring how much water is stored in...

Dr. Tom Wagner talks about Arctic sea ice and the ARISE mission in this canned liveshot interview.

Beijing’s powerful new aircraft carrier is more modern than U.S. carriers in some important capabilities.

One of the keys to gathering data for Operation IceBridge is a highly modified McDonnell Douglas DC-8 jetliner, which NASA operates as a flying science laboratory. This workhorse DC-8 can fly long trips, allowing a suite of scientific...

The Royal Air Force is leaping towards the future with the arrival of new F35 fighter jets but the threats to the UK are shifting fast with a resurgent Russia to the fore, and uncertainty surrounds the UK defence budget. As the RAF marks...

MOT 1951: U.S. CARSWELL AIR BASE: WING BRIEFING ROOM: INT CU Sign. WS Officer at podium briefing crew in seats. VS Audience pilots. DRAMATIZATION: VS Officer at map talking about airplane route plan mission. VS Map. MS Pilot w/ cigar. Texas

MOT 1951: U.S. CARSWELL AIR BASE: MOCK MISSION: NIGHT: WS Crewmen assembled under Convair B-36 bomber airplane. MS Commander Bill Horton (unconfirmed) talking. VS Airmen boarding B-36. INT VS Crewman sitting fastening safety belt. Texas...

This year marks the tenth Arctic spring campaign for Operation IceBridge, a cryosphere-focused mission tasked with mapping the fastest-changing areas of the Greenland Ice Sheet and measuring sea ice thickness across the western Arctic...

NASA’s Operation IceBridge is back in the field, but this time, there’s a twist. Instead of using the P-3 or DC-8 aircraft from previous campaigns, they’ve outfitted a C-130 cargo plane for the trip. Science flights begin this week as...

On October 18th, NASA's Operation IceBridge scientists and the DC-8 crew departed for Punta Arenas, Chile where they will begin the Antarctic 2010 phase of the mission. For the next five weeks, instrumnents aboard the DC-8 will collect...

With winter closing in, a new NASA airborne campaign launched October 31, 2013 in Greenland. For the first time, the Laser Vegetation Imaging Sensor, or LVIS, is flying about NASA's new C-130 aircraft to measure the island's ice...

For the first time NASA’s Operation IceBridge is flying simultaneous missions over both the Arctic and Antarctic, on smaller, faster aircraft. These campaigns and aircraft represent both a unique opportunity for measuring polar ice, and...

MOT 1947: CALIFORNIA INDUSTRY: HA WS Convair factory. Workers walking outside near partially completed aircraft. Scaffold around commercial airliner. Mechanic in window. Line of Convair twin engine planes in hangar. Workers testing...

NASA's Operation IceBridge begins another season of science over the Arctic with survey flights out of Greenland. For the next several weeks, IceBridge will carry out a research campaign — the result of months of planning and discussion...

For the second straight year, NASA's Operation IceBridge is collaborating with the European Space Agency's CryoVEx program, flying aircraft low over Arctic sea ice while ESA's CryoSat satellite orbits above. In this video, IceBridge...

NASA climate scientist Tom Wagner provides a look at the state of Arctic sea ice in 2009 and discusses NASA's role in monitoring the cryosphere. Learn More: Or get tweeted by NASA:

NASA’s Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Storms (IMPACTS) mission, which began in January and is planned to wrap up at the end of February, has seen upwards of 10 flights so far. Ultimately,...

The video discusses the sunk cost fallacy, which is the tendency to continue investing in something because of the resources already invested, even if it no longer makes rational sense. The fallacy is driven by loss aversion, the desire...

A helicopter works on the principle of aerodynamic lift - an upwards force that opposes the weight of the helicopter and holds it the air. So how exactly do the rotors of helicopters help them fly? For any object to fly in the air, it...

MOT 1945: ENGLAND AIRCRAFT FACTORY: INT MS Men pushing airplane engine on cart. VS Mechanics working on rows of fighter airplanes. MS Crane moving propellers into place. CU British woman working on airplane.

For six weeks in Ontario, Canada, scientists and engineers lead a field campaign to study the science and mechanics of falling snow. The datasets retrieved will be used to generate algorithms which translate what the GPM Core satellite...

Operation IceBridge is heading back into the Arctic with two aircraft and the most sophisticated suite of instruments ever flown in polar regions. This year's mission will focus on sea ice thickness, the Canadian Ice Caps, Greenland ice...