News Archive / Tagged: Ice

• Gallery: ICESat-2 closes Delta II era with another success

  Matthew KuhnsSeptember 15th, 2018

  The last flight of a ULA Delta II rocket was carried out on Saturday, Sept. 15 from Vandenberg Air Force base in California. As was the case so many times in the past - its final mission was a success.

• As ICESat-2 set to open new era of Earth observation, era of Delta II poised to close

  Jim SharkeySeptember 13th, 2018

  While the new ICESat-2 mission will help us gain a better understanding of the dynamics of our home world - it will also mark the end of the Delta II rocket's long history.

• Our SpaceFlight Heritage: ICE—The first comet flyby

  Andrew LepageSeptember 12th, 2018

  While NASA has become known for successful spacecraft that extend well past their warranty, the International Cometary Explorer (ICE) showed that a well-designed spacecraft can serve many purposes long after its primary mission ends.

• Ice confirmed at the Moon’s poles

  Jim SharkeyAugust 28th, 2018

  A team of researchers using data collected by NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument have directly observed definitive evidence of water ice at the Moon's poles. While most of the ice at the southern pole is concentrated in lunar craters, the substance is more widely, but sparsely distributed, at the northern pole.