Earth

GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite)

NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

NOAA’s GOES-U Satellite Launches

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 the GOES

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 Releases Updated Climate Change Adaptation, Resilience Plan

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)

Celebrating Juneteenth

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

Earth Science

Climate Science

Earth

GRACE (Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment)

GRACE-FO (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-on)

Science & Research

NASA Satellites Find Snow Didn’t Offset Southwest US Groundwater Loss

Record snowfall in recent years has not been enough to offset long-term drying conditions and increasing groundwater demands in the U.S. Southwest, according to a new analysis of NASA satellite data. Declining water levels in the Great Salt Lake and Lake Mead have been testaments to a megadrought afflicting western North America since 2000. But […]

Posted June 17, 2024

Earth

Airborne Science

Goddard Space Flight Center

Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO)

Wallops Flight Facility

NASA-Led Mission to Map Air Pollution Over Both U.S. Coasts

This summer between June 17 and July 2, NASA will fly aircraft over Baltimore, Philadelphia, parts of Virginia, and California to collect data on air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions. The campaign supports the NASA Student Airborne Research Program for undergraduate interns. The East Coast flights will take place from June 17-26.

Posted June 14, 2024

Ames Research Center

Earth

Extreme Weather Events

Goddard Space Flight Center

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Johnson Space Center

Langley Research Center

Marshall Space Flight Center

Natural Disasters

NASA Announces New System to Aid Disaster Response

In early May, widespread flooding and landslides occurred in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, leaving thousands of people without food, water, or electricity. In the following days, NASA teams provided data and imagery to help on-the-ground responders understand the disaster’s impacts and deploy aid.

Posted June 13, 2024

Earth

Ice & Glaciers

Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)

Terra

Sea Ice Swirls

NASA’s Terra satellite captured floating fragments of sea ice as ocean currents carried them south along Greenland’s east coast on June 4, 2024. This ice traveled from the Fram Strait, a 450-kilometer (280-mile)-wide passage between Greenland and Svalbard, to the Arctic Ocean.

Posted June 13, 2024

Landsat

Earth

Earth Observatory

Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA Selects Raytheon Company to Build Landsat Next Instruments

NASA selects Raytheon Company to provide three instruments and related services, with an option for one additional instrument, in support of the Landsat Next mission based at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Posted June 12, 2024

Earth

Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA Analysis Confirms a Year of Monthly Temperature Records

May 2024 was the warmest May on the books, marking a full year of record-high monthly temperatures, NASA scientists found. Average global temperatures for the past 12 months hit record highs for each respective month – an unprecedented streak – according to scientists from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. “It’s […]

Posted June 11, 2024