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Climate Change
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Earth's Atmosphere
Greenhouse Gases
In the Florida Everglades, NASA’s BlueFlux Campaign investigates the relationship between tropical wetlands and greenhouse gases.
Posted March 13, 2025
NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar)
Earth
Earth Science
Earth Science Division
Data from the NISAR satellite will be used to map crop growth, track plant health, and monitor soil moisture — offering detailed, timely information for decision making. When it launches this year, the NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite will provide a powerful data stream that could help farmers in the U.S. and around the […]
Posted March 12, 2025
Earth
Science Mission Directorate
The Solar System
This was a magical revelation for the Greeks and the Egyptians, who were able to see from the motions of the stars and the way the Sun moved. They saw the way the Sun’s shadow worked in different places. And they figured, well, that’s only possible if the Earth is round. And they took that […]
Posted March 11, 2025
Earth
The OLI (Operational Land Imager) on Landsat 8 captured an image of Kachemak Bay’s turbid, cloudy waters on September 20, 2024. This cloudiness comes from glacial flour: bits of pulverized rock ground down by glaciers that has the consistency of flour.
Posted March 6, 2025
Earth
Oceans
Video Series
This data visualization showing ocean currents around the world uses data from NASA’s Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean model.
Posted March 3, 2025
Earth
Goddard Space Flight Center
Oceans
NASA scientists and collaborators built the ECCO model to be the most realistic, detailed, and continuous depiction of the ocean ever developed
Posted March 3, 2025
Earth
International Space Station (ISS)
The Milky Way
NASA astronaut Don Pettit used a camera with low light and long duration settings to capture this Jan. 29, 2025, image of the Milky Way appearing beyond Earth’s horizon. At the time, the International Space Station was orbiting 265 miles above the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Chile just before sunrise. Pettit is part […]
Posted February 26, 2025
Earth
Voyager 1
Earth is but a tiny light blue dot in this 30th anniversary version of the iconic “Pale Blue Dot” image. The original photo, taken by NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft on Feb. 14, 1990, is now 35 years old. Voyager 1 was 3.7 billion miles (6 billion km) away from the Sun, giving it a unique […]
Posted February 18, 2025
Earth
Earth's Moon
Goddard Space Flight Center
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
People of Goddard
The Universe
Lee esta historia en español aquí When Rose Ferreira first saw an image of a field of galaxies and galaxy clusters from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in July, she “went into the restroom and broke down a little,” she said. This “Deep Field” image showed galaxies not only sharper, but deeper into the universe […]
Posted February 10, 2025
Earth
Goddard Space Flight Center
People of Goddard
Ambiguity.  That’s the word that comes to mind when documentary photographers start each day at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “You walk in and think one thing is happening,” said OCI’s lead documentary photographer Desiree Stover. “But in an instant things change – maybe goes wrong –- and you need to be ready to […]
Posted February 10, 2025
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