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Welcome to the Oregon Space Grant Consortium (OSGC) website. The site is designed to provide visitors with information about OSGC's programs, research, and people.
The Oregon Space Grant Consortium, part of the National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program, is a state-wide network of universities, colleges, museums, educators, researchers, students, and science professionals. OSGC promotes STEM education through cooperative and interdisciplinary programs while recruiting and training NASA's next diverse workforce. Please utilize the links above to learn more about OSGC's mission, history, staff, and member institutions, or to access information regarding specific OSGC programs and opportunities for faculty and students.
Aqua, Latin for water, is a NASA Earth Science satellite mission named for the large amount of information that the mission is collecting about the Earth’s water cycle, including evaporation from the oceans, water vapor in the atmosphere, clouds, precipitation, soil moisture, sea ice, land ice, and snow cover on the land and ice. Additional […]
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Read full story.Aqua carries six state-of-the-art instruments to observe the Earth’s oceans, atmosphere, land, ice and snow covers, and vegetation, providing high measurement accuracy, spatial detail, and temporal frequency. This comprehensive approach to data collection enables scientists to study the interactions among the four spheres of the Earth system: the oceans, land, atmosphere, and biosphere.
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Read full story.A dolphin swims through the water in the Launch Complex 39 Area turn basin at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Nov. 6, 2007. The turn basin was carved out of the Banana River when NASA Kennedy was built. Dolphins are a frequent sight in the rivers around Kennedy, which shares a boundary with []
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