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CISTO Summer 2025 Interns Contribute to NASA Information Technology Tools and Capabilities
2025.08.27
Each year, the Computational and Information Sciences and Technology Office (CISTO) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center hosts a group of interns from multiple disciplines. This summer, 10 interns from across the continental United States and Hawaiʻi have been learning and contributing to NASA information technology tools and capabilities.
Going With the Flow: Visualizing Ocean Currents with ECCO
2025.03.03
Historically, the ocean has been difficult to model. This data visualization showing ocean currents around the world uses data from NASA’s ECCO model, or Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean. The model pulls data from spacecraft, buoys, and other measurements.
NASA Goddard Showcases Science and Technology at SC24 Conference
2024.12.19
SC24: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, held November 18–22 in Atlanta, Georgia, smashed all records with 18,104 attendees and 494 exhibits. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center contributed research projects, NASA 101 talks, and an Earth Information Center exhibit to NASA's popular exhibit.
CISTO Summer 2024 Interns Take on AI and Other Challenges at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
2024.08.28
Summer interns grew their knowledge and agency capabilities by tackling AI and other technological challenges across the Computational and Information Sciences and Technology Office (CISTO) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
Watch Carbon Dioxide Move through Earth’s Atmosphere
2024.07.23
This global map shows concentrations of carbon dioxide as the gas moved through Earth’s atmosphere from January through March 2020, driven by wind patterns and atmospheric circulation
NASA Invites Media to 61st Annual Goddard Space Science Symposium
2024.03.14
Media are invited to attend the 61st annual Goddard Space Science Symposium (formerly the Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium), which will take place March 20-22, 2024, at the Brendan Iribe Center on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park. The symposium will also be streamed online.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Shines at SC23 Conference
2023.11.30
At SC23: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis in Denver, Colorado, NASA Goddard scientists and technologists presented 12 research projects in NASA’s popular research exhibit.
NASA Software Catalog Offers Free Programs for Earth Science, More
2023.08.09
Each year, NASA scientists, engineers, and developers create software packages to manage space missions, test spacecraft, and analyze the petabytes of data produced by agency research satellites. As the agency innovates for the benefit of humanity, many of these programs are now downloadable and free of charge through NASA’s Software Catalog.
NASA Space Apps Announces 2023 Theme: Explore Open Science Together
2023.07.13
NASA Space Apps, in collaboration with NASA Transform to Open Science (TOPS), is proud to announce the 2023 NASA International Space Apps Challenge theme: “Explore Open Science Together.” This year’s theme celebrates the benefits and successes created through the equitable and open sharing of knowledge and data. Registration is open through Oct 8.
NASA Goddard, National Philharmonic Explore Cosmos Through Imagery, Music Collaboration
2023.05.15
Awe-inspiring NASA visuals combined with the might of a live symphonic orchestra last week in “Cosmic Cycles,” a multimedia collaboration among the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, the National Philharmonic, and composer Henry Dehlinger.
VP Harris, South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol to Visit NASA Goddard
2023.04.24
Vice President Kamala Harris and Republic of Korea (ROK) President Yoon Suk Yeol will visit NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, on Tuesday, April 25, to see firsthand the agency’s climate change work. NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy and Goddard Center Director Makenzie Lystrup will join them on tour.
NASA Spinoffs Bolster Climate Resilience, Improve Medical Care, More
2023.01.31
The latest edition of NASA’s Spinoff publication features dozens of new commercialized technologies that use the agency’s technology, research, and/or expertise to benefit people around the globe. It also includes a section highlighting technologies of tomorrow.
NASA Science To Be Featured at American Astronomical Society Meeting
2023.01.06
Experts will discuss new research from NASA missions at the 241st meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), on topics ranging from the universe’s early galaxies to planets outside our solar system.
Mark SubbaRao Brings Data to Life Through Art
2023.01.03
NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio lead Mark SubbaRao uses scientific data to tell compelling science stories that capture the beauty of the universe.
NASA’s SMCE Team Helps Scientists Develop Collaborative Cloud Computing Projects
2022.12.21
An agile team of computer experts at NASA Goddard helps scientists collaborate and develop Open Science projects in astrophysics, Earth science, biology, and heliophysics by creating the SMCE managed cloud environment for science.
NASA Press Events at 2022 Fall AGU Meeting
2022.12.08
NASA researchers will be presenting findings on Earth and space sciences Dec.12-16 at the American Geophysical Union's 2022 Fall meeting, being held virtually and in Chicago this year.
NASA Goddard Scientists Create Black Hole Jets with NCCS Discover Supercomputer
2022.11.15
Leveraging the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center scientists ran 100 simulations exploring jets — narrow beams of energetic particles — that emerge at nearly light speed from supermassive black holes.
Ernie Wright Brings the Moon to Life
2022.11.01
Science visualizer Ernest T. (Ernie) Wright believes that emotion and rhythm are an important part of storytelling.
NASA’s Economic Benefit Reaches All 50 States
2022.10.27
NASA released the results of its second agencywide economic impact report on Thursday, demonstrating how its Moon to Mars activities, investments in climate change research and technology, as well as other work generated more than $71.2 billion in total economic output during fiscal year 2021.
NASA Goddard’s 'Web Around Asteroid Bennu' Shows in SIGGRAPH Film Fest
2022.08.05
“A Web Around Asteroid Bennu” highlights the tricky navigation it took for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to collect a sample from asteroid Bennu in 2020. Produced at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, the video will show in Vancouver, British Columbia, on Aug. 8 in the SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference.
Generation Z Interns Light Up NASA Goddard as CISTO Celebrates National Intern Day 2022!
2022.07.28
To honor National Intern Day on July 28, 2022, the NASA High-End Computing Program at Goddard Space Flight Center introduces six summer 2022 NASA interns working in various groups across the Computational and Information Sciences and Technology Office (CISTO).
Satellites, the Space Race, and Supercomputing: How NASA Goddard’s Beowulf Cluster Computer Became an Award-Winning Space Technology
2022.05.13
On April 7, Beowulf Cluster Computing was inducted into the Space Technology Hall of Fame. The Beowulf computer cluster was a breakthrough at NASA that enabled many other innovations. Virtually every area of science, math, and biology continue to be direct beneficiaries of this groundbreaking work.
Join NASA's Earth Day Event
2022.04.22
Join us in person or virtually. Registration is open for virtual events.
Every Day is Earth Day at the NASA Center for Climate Simulation
2022.04.22
The theme of Earth Day 2022 is “Investing in Earth.” A significant investment in understanding Earth has already been made with the creation of the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in 1990, where every day is Earth Day.
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