NASA’s newest airborne sensor is taking mineral exploration to stratospheric heights, literally. Called AVIRIS-5, the advanced imaging spectrometer has begun sweeping the American West from 60,000 ...

Scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of the US space agency NASA have developed Aviris-5 (Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer 5), a high-precision imaging spectrometer that can ...

Mark was the science editor at Mashable. After working as a ranger with the National Park Service, he started a reporting career after seeing the extraordinary value in educating people about the ...

When an on-land pipeline ruptured north of Santa Barbara, California, on May 19—spilling 105,000 barrels of crude oil onto Refugio State Beach and about 21,000 gallons of oil into the Pacific Ocean in ...

A NASA sensor recently brought a new approach to battling wildfire, providing real-time data that helped firefighters in the field contain a blaze in Alabama. Called AVIRIS-3, which is short for ...