This post was authored by Stephanie Marcus, Science Reference Librarian in the Science, Technology, and Business Division. The combined stresses of overpopulation, water pollution, and poor water management practices require new approaches to better assess and manage global water security and sustainability. Dr. John Bolten will review the technological advances in satellite-based remote sensing and numerical …
This post was authored by Stephanie Marcus, Science Reference Librarian in the Science, Technology, and Business Division. NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission landed the nuclear powered rover Curiosity on the floor of the 96-mile wide Gale Crater on August 6, 2012. In a complicated maneuver using a sky crane, it touched down near “Mount Sharp,” …
This post was authored by Stephanie Marcus, Science Reference Librarian in the Science, Technology, and Business Division. The Hubble, the first space-based optical telescope, has been circling the Earth and making observations for nearly 28 years since its launch in April 1990. Just this week it has had its eye on a relic galaxy, NGC …
Lecture series coordinators Sean Bryant and Stephanie Marcus, Science, Technology and Business Division, contributed to this blog post. With March just around the corner, we are preparing to kick off our annual Earth and Space Science lecture series, now in its twelfth year. The series is a partnership between the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center …
This post was authored by Stephanie Marcus, Science Reference Librarian in the Science, Technology, and Business Division. Even from 512 miles above the Earth, holiday lights shine bright. Miguel Román, who is a research physical scientist and remote sensing specialist in the Terrestrial Information Systems Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, has been looking …
This post was authored by Stephanie Marcus, Science Reference Librarian in the Science, Technology, and Business Division. Dr. Padi Boyd, Chief of the Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, will speak at the Library of Congress about the thousands of planets discovered beyond our solar system and the evolving view …
American investigative reporter, non-fiction author and filmmaker David France will discuss his book How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS, a definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic. Inspired by his Oscar-nominated documentary of the same name, How to Survive a Plague is …
This post was authored by Stephanie Marcus, Science Reference Librarian in the Science, Technology, and Business Division. Now that we’ve had the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse, it’s time to move on to the next big event on NASA’s calendar, and that is the Grand Finale of the Cassini-Huygens Mission, a cooperative project of NASA, the …
This post was authored by Stephanie Marcus, Science Reference Librarian in the Science, Technology, and Business Division. We’ve heard a great deal recently about Jupiter (Juno Mission) and Pluto (New Horizons), and soon the Science, Technology & Business Division will present a program on Saturn (Cassini), but what about Venus? Except for programs on the …
