Earth

Climate Change
Earth
Earth's Atmosphere
Greenhouse Gases
What we’re looking at 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.  Because of the model’s high resolution, you can zoom in and see carbon dioxide emissions rising from power plants, fires, and cities, then spr
Posted July 23, 2024
Earth Science
Earth
Earth Science Division
Earth's Moon
GRACE (Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment)
GRACE-FO (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-on)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Researchers used more than 120 years of data to decipher how melting ice, dwindling groundwater, and rising seas are nudging the planet’s spin axis and lengthening days. Days on Earth are growing slightly longer, and that change is accelerating. The reason is connected to the same mechanisms that also have caused the planet’s axis to […]
Posted July 19, 2024
Earth
Earth Science Division
Get Involved
Heliophysics Division
NASA invites innovators, technologists, storytellers, and problem solvers to register for the 2024 NASA Space Apps Challenge, the largest annual global hackathon.
Posted July 18, 2024
Aura
Earth
Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO)
A few of the many highlights from the last 20 years since Aura Launched.
Posted July 16, 2024
Earth
International Space Station (ISS)
ISS Research
NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick photographed red sprites in Earth’s upper atmosphere from the International Space Station on June 3, 2024. The bright red flashes (more easily seen by clicking on the photo to see a larger version) are a less understood phenomena associated with powerful lightning events and appear high above the clouds in the […]
Posted July 10, 2024
Earth
Hurricanes & Typhoons
International Space Station (ISS)
Matthew Dominick
Natural Disasters
NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick captured this image of Hurricane Beryl in the Caribbean on July 1, 2024, while aboard the International Space Station, and posted it to X. The Category 4 hurricane had winds of about 130 mph (215 kph). Hurricanes – tropical cyclones that form over the Atlantic Ocean or the eastern Pacific Ocean […]
Posted July 2, 2024
Earth
GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite)
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
Space Weather
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s GOES-U (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) satellite lifts off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 25, 2024.
Posted June 26, 2024
Earth
GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite)
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
Space Weather
On June 14, 2024, NOAA’s (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) last Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-U, started its journey from the Astrotech Space Operations facility to the SpaceX hangar at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Posted June 24, 2024
Earth
Climate Change
NASA joined more than 20 federal agencies in releasing its updated Climate Adaptation Plan Thursday, helping expand the Biden-Harris Administration’s efforts to make federal operations increasingly resilient to the impacts of climate change for the benefit of all.
Posted June 20, 2024
Earth
International Space Station (ISS)
The crew aboard the International Space Station captured this image of Galveston, Texas, the birthplace of Juneteenth, as the station orbited 224 miles above on Nov. 23, 2011. In the early 1800s, slavers periodically used Galveston Island as an outpost for operations.
Posted June 18, 2024
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