Exploring the deep sea poses many challenges for scientists. Read this article to learn about the submersible technology scientists use to study deep-water ecosystems. Click on the links to find out more about each type of submersible.
Category Archives: Risk and Exploration
10 Offbeat Things Humans Have Launched into Space
Did you know that Buzz Lightyear has really been to space? Most of the more than 100 space trips have included an odd item or two on board. Read to find out more about the interesting, and sometimes wacky, items that have traveled to space.
The five: underwater discoveries
Though we typically think of archaelogy as occuring on land, subaquatic archaelogists explore ancient underwater sites. This article describes some of their important discoveries.
Looking for Life Beyond Earth: Martian Discoveries
Could humans one day live on Mars? Read about the research and exploration being done to determine if that is a real possibility.
Indian teen builds world’s ‘lightest satellite’
Teen changes the world with the invention of a satellite small enough to hold in the palm of your hand.
The New Arecibo Message
In 1974, our greatest minds gathered to craft a message broadcast to aliens. Look at a breakdown of what this message contained.
How Much Would It Cost To Live On Mars?
Look at the infographic for a quick breakdown of the cost to live on Mars.
Eating on Mars? Be Sure to Pack the Tortillas
Life on Mars is a work in progress. Six NASA volunteers took part in the HI-SEAS (Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation) experiment to explore how astronauts might one day live on Mars. Investigate the importance of food preparation on such a mission.
Explore the Largest Known Volcanoes
Volcanoes shape the surface of our world and surrounding planets. Explore some of our solar system’s largest volcanoes.
The Kepler Space Telescope is About to Run Out of Fuel
The Kepler Space Telescope is facing retirement, but its nine year life has given humans amazing discoveries of Earth-like planets.
Phantom Islands – A Sonic Atlas
Phantom islands are islands which were thought to exist at one point in time. Explore a sonic atlas of some of history’s most well-known phantom islands.
Exoplanet Travel Bureau
Explore artistic impressions of the surface of three exoplanets discovered by NASA’s telescopes.
The new lighter-than-air race for space
Massive near-space balloons are making a comeback in a powerful way. These vessels, capable of travel, surveillance, and disaster relief, are challenging satellites.
Tall storeys: Lucinda Grange’s daredevil photography
Lucinda Grange is a photographer with a love of adventure. She scales skyscrapers and monuments to take unbelievable photographers. Check out this photo essay of her work.
7 Technologies That Are Revolutionizing Ocean Exploration
Humans have mapped a larger percentage of the surface of Mars than Earth’s seafloor. These 7 technologies are looking to change that.
Final frontiers: rainforests
Read about the biological importance of rainforests and the ways in which humans are destroying these precious ecosystems at an alarming rate.
Blue Planet II: What you can do to help save our oceans
Read about ways we can help protect the earth’s oceans from plastic pollution.
The Next Step
Mars Short Stories – The Write Stuff is an initiative by NASA to engage writers to put technology-based fiction to paper. The aim is to help visualize the potential reality of, in particular, the first human missions to Mars.
The Sea Women of South Korea
Read about the women in the South Korean island province of Jeju who make their living from diving to collect seafood from the ocean floor using no breathing equipment.
In a First, Gravitational Waves Linked to Neutron Star Crash
Imagine the elation at witnessing a cosmic event that occurred millions of years ago! That’s what happened in October this year when scientists announced the ripple effect (literally) of two neutron stars crashing into each other around 130 million years ago.