Tag: Natural Disaster

• 10.17.07

  Transcript: Rosaly Lopes Extended Interview

  Rosaly Lopes is a planetary geologist with a thing for volcanoes. A native of Brazil, Rosaly studied planetary science at the University of London. After mapping the hazardous region surrounding Italy's Mount Vesuvius, she moved to the Jet Propulsion Labo

• 10.15.07

  Rosaly Lopes: Volcanologist

  Studying Volcanoes on Earth and Throughout Our Solar System Some people take their time figuring out what they want to do with their lives.  Rosaly Lopes, on the other hand, was more directed than most of us.  As she recalled in a recent NASA w

• 9.21.07

  Fired Up

  New Techniques and Technology to Fight Fire For centuries, people have fought fires with the same basic formula: Put the wet stuff on the hot stuff. But today, firefighters are using new techniques and technology to battle their old enemy  And they

• 9.21.07

  Fighting Fire from Above

  Airborne High Tech Gives Firefighters a Hand Today's firefighters aren't only equipped with high-tech tools on the ground--they've also got them in the sky. Networked NASA satellites spot wildfires and alert the US Forest Service. Closer to Earth, unmann