The mission is to provide frequent flight opportunities for world-class scientific investigations from space. The program seeks to enhance public awareness of, and appreciation for, space science.

We conduct research into the structure, dynamics, and evolution of the solid Earth and planets using space-techniques and remote sensing data.

The goal of the GEST Center is to forge new cooperative relationships between the private sector and government scientists to fully exploit the joint development of a comprehensive theoretical and experimental research program in concert with the Earth Sciences Directorate.

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Flagship of NASA's space science program

Featured education programs offered throught NASA's Goddard Center.

Public website for NASA Goddard events and resources.

Provides science data about GOES, a US geostationary weather satellite. Includes many additional resources on weather satellites in general.

Goddard Space Flight Center job opportunities and information on compensation, benefits, and other personnel related topics.

The IMAGE satellite is the first spacecraft dedicated to imaging the Earth's magnetosphere, a region of space controlled by the Earth's magnetic field that contains extremely tenuous plasmas of both solar and terrestrial origin.

We provide leadership and vision in identifying, developing and/or sponsoring advanced and emerging information systems technologies.

This program combines resources and scientific communities on an international scale using a complement of several missions, along with complementary ground facilities and theoretical efforts, to obtain coordinated, simultaneous investigations of the Sun-Earth space environment over an extended period of time.

A NASA site for the general public featuring a collection of questions and answers on cosmology.

NASA Goddard Information Science and Technology Colloquium Series.

NASA's next-generation successor to the Hubble Space Telescope,is named in honor of the man who led NASA in the early days of the fledgling aerospace agency,and is scheduled for launch in 2010 aboard an expendable launch vehicle.

NASA's Laboratory for High-Energy Astrophysics conducts and supports x-ray, gamma-ray, cosmic-ray, and gravitational-wave research.

The Laboratory for High-Energy Astrophysics contains many active research and instrument development groups. These pages link to the web sites for many of these groups.

The Focus for the Aqua Project is the multi-disciplinary study of the Earth's Interrelated Processes (atmosphere, oceans, and land surface) and their relationship to earth system changes.

Home to the Nation's largest organization of combined scientists and engineers dedicated to learning and sharing their knowledge of the Earth, solar system, and Universe.

AERONET is an international network composed of more than a hundred of sunphotometers that covers a big part of Earth. This network is among others used to study the aerosols and to validate satellite data.

Over 1,000 U.S. scientists use Goddard Space Flight Center supercomputers to develop Earth system models.

Largest organization of combined scientists and engineers in the United States dedicated to learning and sharing their knowledge of the Earth.

This NASA research institute subdivision of the Goddard Space Flight Center is located near Columbia University in New York City. GISS is primarily engaged in studies of global climate change.

Information in engineering, space and physical sciences, and earth sciences. Go here for patent and standards information, web links, and government information.

Provides outstanding electrical engineering products and services to our customers in Earth science, Space science, and Technology development.

Oversees activities and programs at Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) designed to maintain and broaden the Center's interaction with the university community.

Large unmanned helium balloons for NASA.

A comprehensive directory of information about Earth science data,including a broad coverage of the oceans, atmosphere, hydrosphere, solid earth, biosphere and human dimensions of global change.

Is responsible for planning, coordination, execution and oversight of technology programs for Goddard?s Space Science and Earth Science missions.

The SIMBIOS program is meant to foster information exchange and collaboration between missions and to complement and assist in the validation efforts of the individual ocean color projects.

Provides access to a wide variety of astrophysics, space physics, solar physics, lunar, and planetary data from NASA space flight missions, in addition to selected other data, models, and software.

These missions are fundamental elements in our global approach to understanding the Sun-Earth connections system.The missions focus on understanding the dynamics, short and long term, large and small, through active and quiet solar periods.

Includes information about SSPP's 3D library, contacts, ejection systems, flown missions, carrier systems, documents, current missions, and provides updated news for SSPP.

NASA's STP program is a continuous sequence of flexible, cost-capped missions designed to systematically study the sun-Earth system. STP missions will focus on how and why the sun varies, and how Earth and the planets respond.

SSDOO is responsible for the project management of selected missions and the development and operations of data and information systems which support processing, management, archiving and distribution of space physics, astrophysics, and planetary data.

Goddard's space science programs and projects are conducted by the GSFC Space Sciences Directorate, Code 600. We seek to expand scientific knowledge through observational and theoretical research relating to the Solar System, our galaxy, and the universe.

One of four science themes within the NASA Office of Space Science

Offers a series of technical seminars focusing on education and information sharing about relevant emerging information systems technologies.

The TERRA Project (formally known as AM-1) is responsible for the design, fabrication, test, launch, and on-orbit checkout of the instruments and spacecraft for the first EOS mission.The TERRA mission is part of NASA's Earth Sciences Enterprise.

A format adopted by the astronomical community for data interchange and archival storage. The FITS Support Office is responsible for documenting the FITS standard, participating in its evolution, and advising NASA astrophysics missions on how to present their data in FITS format.

Advances NASA programs through the exploration of Earth and Planetary solid-body physics. These explorations involve the physics and dynamics of the Earth, as well as of other planets and their satellites.

MPLNET,funded by the NASA Earth Observing System, is a worldwide network of micro-pulse lidar (MPL) systems providing long-term data sets of cloud and aerosol vertical distributions at key sites around the world.

One of four science themes within the Office of Space Science at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Launch site on Virginia's Eastern Shore.