Earth

NASA Data Helps International Community Prepare for Sea Level Rise

The information will help people who live in coastal areas prepare for impacts caused by rising sea levels. Earth’s ocean is rising, disrupting livelihoods and infrastructure in coastal communities around the world.

Posted November 13, 2024

People of Goddard

Earth

Goddard Space Flight Center

PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem)

People of NASA

SeaWiFS (Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor)

Inia Soto Ramos, From the Mountains of Puerto Rico to Mountains of NASA Earth Data

Dr. Inia Soto Ramos became fascinated by the mysteries of the ocean while growing up in Puerto Rico’s mountains. Today, she works at NASA as an oceanographer and data manager, where she can uncover these enigmas from space.

Posted November 12, 2024

Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE)

Earth

Goddard Space Flight Center

Heliophysics

Hurricanes & Typhoons

The Sun

Hurricane Helene’s Gravity Waves Revealed by NASA’s AWE

On Sept. 26, 2024, Hurricane Helene slammed into the Gulf Coast of Florida, inducing storm surges and widespread impacts on communities in its path. At the same time, NASA’s Atmospheric Waves Experiment, or AWE, recorded enormous swells in the atmosphere that the hurricane produced roughly 55 miles above the ground.

Posted November 7, 2024

SERVIR (Regional Visualization and Monitoring System)

Earth

Earth Science

Earth Science Division

Marshall Science Research & Projects

Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA, Bhutan Conclude Five Years of Teamwork on STEM, Sustainability

NASA and the Kingdom of Bhutan have been actively learning from each other and growing together since 2019. The seeds planted over those years have ripened into improved environmental conservation, community-based natural resource management, and new remote sensing tools.

Posted November 4, 2024

SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography)

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Earth Science

Earth Science Division

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

International SWOT Satellite Spots Planet-Rumbling Greenland Tsunami

Data from space shows water tilting up toward the north side of the Dickson Fjord as it sloshed from south to north and back every 90 seconds for nine days after a 2023 rockslide. The international Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission, a collaboration between NASA and France’s CNES (Centre National d’Études Spatiales), […]

Posted November 1, 2024

Ozone Layer

Climate Change

Earth

General

NASA, NOAA Rank 2024 Ozone Hole as 7th-Smallest Since Recovery Began

Healing continues in the atmosphere over the Antarctic: a hole that opens annually in the ozone layer over Earth’s southern pole was relatively small in 2024 compared to other years. Scientists with NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) project the ozone layer could fully recover by 2066. During the peak of ozone […]

Posted October 30, 2024

Earth

Landsat 8 / LDCM (Landsat Data Continuity Mission)

A Particular Lenticular Cloud

Landsat 8’s Operational Land Imager acquired this image of an elongated lenticular cloud, locally nicknamed the “Taieri Pet,” above New Zealand’s South Island on Sept. 7, 2024. Lenticular clouds form when prevailing winds encounter a topographic barrier, such as a mountain range. Wind that is forced to flow up and over the mountains creates a […]

Posted October 29, 2024

Earth

Carbon Cycle

Climate Change

Greenhouse Gases

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

NASA Helps Find Thawing Permafrost Adds to Near-Term Global Warming

Earth’s far northern reaches have locked carbon underground for millennia. New research paints a picture of a landscape in change. A new study, co-authored by NASA scientists, details where and how greenhouse gases are escaping from the Earth’s vast northern permafrost region as the Arctic warms.

Posted October 29, 2024

Earth

Melbourne City Lights

Astronaut Don Pettit captured this image of Melbourne, Australia from the International Space Station on Oct. 9, 2024, as it orbited 271 miles above the city. Astronauts aboard the space station take photos using handheld digital cameras, usually through windows in the station’s cupola, for Crew Earth Observations.

Posted October 23, 2024

Climate Change

Earth

Earth Science

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Oceans

Sea Level Rise

NASA Analysis Shows Irreversible Sea Level Rise for Pacific Islands

Climate change is rapidly reshaping a region of the world that’s home to millions of people. In the next 30 years, Pacific Island nations such as Tuvalu, Kiribati, and Fiji will experience at least 8 inches (15 centimeters) of sea level rise, according to an analysis by NASA’s sea level change science team. This amount […]

Posted September 25, 2024