Earth

SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography)
Earth
Extreme Weather Events
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Oceans
Water on Earth
Operated by NASA and the French space agency, the Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission provides a new view of water on land, at the coast, and in the ocean. A series of atmospheric rivers drenched California in February, with record amounts of rainfall and hurricane-force winds sweeping across parts of the state. At one […]
Posted March 5, 2024
Earth
Earth's Atmosphere
General
Goddard Institute for Space Studies
New research suggests that sunlight-blocking particles from an extreme eruption would not cool surface temperatures on Earth as severely as previously estimated.
Posted March 1, 2024
Earth
International Space Station (ISS)
While the International Space Station orbited 260 miles above the East China Sea, NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli snapped this photo of Shanghai’s city lights and the Huangpu River flowing through downtown. Shanghai is the most populous city in China with a population of about 24.9 million. The space station serves as a unique platform for […]
Posted February 22, 2024
Aeronautics
Aeronautics Research
Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate
Aeronautics Technology
Ames Research Center
Ames Research Center's Science Directorate
Convergent Aeronautics Solutions
Earth
NASA Centers & Facilities
NASA Directorates
Natural Disasters
UAS Traffic Management
Wildfires
NASA Deputy Associate Administrator Casey Swails views a demonstration on screen in the Airspace Operations Laboratory at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. Researchers presented the diverse, long-running efforts in aeronautics at Ames that have helped lay the foundation for agency work related to wildfire response.
Posted February 20, 2024
Wildfires
Earth
NASA is now an associate member of the National Wildfire Coordinating Group, giving the agency new opportunities to collaborate with federal agencies and other partners to better understand wildland fires and leverage technology and innovation to prevent and manage them for the benefit of humanity.
Posted February 15, 2024
PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment)
Climate Change
Cryosphere
Earth
Ice & Glaciers
Oceans
Launching in spring 2024, the two small satellites of the agency’s PREFIRE mission will fill in missing data from Earth’s polar regions. Two new miniature NASA satellites will start crisscrossing Earth’s atmosphere in a few months, detecting heat lost to space.
Posted February 12, 2024
PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem)
Climate Change
Earth
Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA’s satellite mission to study ocean health, air quality, and the effects of a changing climate for the benefit of humanity launched successfully into orbit at 1:33 a.m. EST Thursday.
Posted February 8, 2024
Earth
Earth Science
Water & Energy Cycle
As the world looks for sustainable solutions, a system tapping into NASA satellite data for water management has passed a critical test.
Posted February 1, 2024
Missions
Earth
Earth Science
Editor’s note: This advisory was updated on Jan. 31, 2024, to update participant names in the science briefing. NASA will provide coverage of the upcoming prelaunch and launch activities for its upcoming mission to study how our oceans and atmosphere interact in a changing climate.
Posted January 31, 2024
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