Earth

Goddard Space Flight Center
Earth
The best known use of GPS satellites is to help people know their location whether driving a car, navigating a ship or plane, or trekking across remote territory. Another important, but lesser-known, use is to distribute information to other Earth-viewing satellites to help them pinpoint measurements of our planet.
Posted December 8, 2023
Earth
GRACE (Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment)
GRACE-FO (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-on)
SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography)
Water on Earth
As part of the long-standing partnership, NASA worked with Google Arts & Culture to create an interactive digital experience around global freshwater.
Posted November 30, 2023
SunRISE (Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment)
Earth
Most NASA missions feature one spacecraft or, occasionally, a few. The agency’s Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment (SunRISE) is using half a dozen. This month, mission members completed construction of the six identical cereal box-size satellites, which will now go into storage and await their final testing and ride to space.
Posted November 30, 2023
Astronauts
Earth
Humans in Space
International Space Station (ISS)
Jasmin Moghbeli
City lights stretch across the United States like a string of holiday lights in this image taken from the International Space Station on Nov. 10, 2023. At far left, the lights of Chicago, Illinois, are outlined by Lake Michigan. At far right, the Dallas/Fort Worth metropolitan area shines through the clouds while the sun’s first […]
Posted November 29, 2023
Climate Change
Bill Nelson
Earth
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and other agency leaders will participate in the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP28) beginning Thursday, Nov. 30, through Tuesday, Dec. 12, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Posted November 27, 2023
Climate Change
Earth
NASA will share knowledge and data at the 28th U.N. Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP28), held at the Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates from Thursday, Nov. 30 to Tuesday, Dec. 12.
Posted November 27, 2023
EMIT (Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation)
Dust Storms
Earth
Earth Science Division
Greenhouse Gases
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Since launching 16 months ago, the EMIT imaging spectrometer aboard the International Space Station has shown an ability to detect more than just surface minerals.
Posted November 17, 2023
Dust Storms
Earth
Natural Disasters
Dust storms present a growing threat to the health and safety of U.S. populations.
Posted November 15, 2023
NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar)
Earth
Earth Science
Earth Science Division
Earth System Observatory (ESO)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
During three weeks in a thermal vacuum chamber in Bengaluru, India, the joint NASA-ISRO satellite demonstrated its hardiness in a harsh, space-like environment. NISAR, the trailblazing Earth-observing radar satellite being developed by the United States and Indian space agencies, passed a major milestone on Nov.
Posted November 14, 2023
People of Goddard
Carbon Cycle
Earth
Earth Science
Goddard Space Flight Center
Oceans
Dr. Peter Griffith serves as the director of NASA’s Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems Office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Dr. Griffith's scientific journey began by swimming in lakes as a child, then to scuba diving with the Smithsonian Institution, and now he studies Earth’s changing climate with NASA.
Posted November 8, 2023
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