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Suomi NPP (Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership)
The Suomi NPP satellite acquired this image of a plume of Saharan dust as winds lofted it over the Atlantic Ocean on Aug. 24, 2024. The Sahara Desert is Earth’s largest source of airborne dust, and the particles can travel for thousands of miles. From late spring to early fall, it is common for the dry, dusty Saharan […]
Posted August 29, 2024
Climate Change
Climate Science
Cryosphere
Earth
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Robotics
Called IceNode, the project envisions a fleet of autonomous robots that would help determine the melt rate of ice shelves. On a remote patch of the windy, frozen Beaufort Sea north of Alaska, engineers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California huddled together, peering down a narrow hole in a thick layer of sea […]
Posted August 29, 2024
General
Ames Research Center
Ames Research Center's Science Directorate
Climate Change
Earth
Earth Science Division
Opportunities For Students to Get Involved
Science Activation
Science Mission Directorate
Tainaliz Marie Rodríguez Lugo took a deep breath, adjusted her snorkel mask, and plunged into the ocean, fins first. Three weeks earlier, Rodríguez Lugo couldn’t swim. Now the college student was gathering data on water quality and coral reefs for a NASA-led marine biology project in Puerto Rico, where she lives.   “There is so much […]
Posted August 28, 2024
Earth
Climate Change
Earth Science
Water on Earth
Extreme wildfires like these will continue to have a large impact on global climate. Stoked by Canada’s warmest and driest conditions in decades, extreme forest fires in 2023 released about 640 million metric tons of carbon, NASA scientists have found.
Posted August 28, 2024
Climate Change
Earth
Earth Science
Greenhouse Gases
Developed by the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the imaging spectrometer will provide actionable data to help reduce emissions that contribute to global warming.
Posted August 17, 2024
Earth
Earth Observatory
This Dec. 27, 2023 image of the São Francisco River in southeast Brazil showcases the range of vibrant colors in the area including blues, reds, greens, and yellows. Much of the unvegetated land, such as unplanted fields and unpaved roads, appears in bright shades of red and yellow. This coloration comes from the underlying clays […]
Posted August 15, 2024
Airborne Science
Climate Change
Earth
NASA invites media to view a research aircraft and interview scientists in Fairbanks, Alaska, on Thursday, Aug. 22, prior to flights of the agency’s Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE), which seeks a better understanding of the sensitivity of northern ecosystems and communities to climate change.
Posted August 14, 2024
Armstrong Flight Research Center
Aeronautics
Earth
Earth Science
Earth Science Division
Earth's Atmosphere
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA Aircraft
Science in the Air
Science Mission Directorate
Operating internationally over several countries this summer, NASA’S C-20A aircraft completed more than 150 hours of science flights across two months in support of Earth science research and overcame several challenges throughout its missions.
Posted August 8, 2024
Earth
ICESat-2 (Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2)
Landsat
Warming global climate is changing the vegetation structure of forests in the far north. It’s a trend that will continue at least through the end of this century, according to NASA researchers.
Posted August 6, 2024
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