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An astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured this view of peak fall foliage around Ottawa, Canada on Oct. 14, 2020.
Posted September 16, 2024
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As students head back to school, teachers have a new tool that brings NASA satellite data down to their earthly classrooms. For over 50 years of observing Earth, NASA’s satellites have collected petabytes of global science data (that’s millions and millions of gigabytes) – with even more terabytes more coming in by the day. Since 2004, […]
Posted September 16, 2024
Earth
Climate Change
Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Goddard Space Flight Center
The agency also shared new state-of-the-art datasets that allow scientists to track Earth’s temperature for any month and region going back to 1880 with greater certainty.
Posted September 11, 2024
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Linette Boisvert turned a childhood love of snow into a career as a sea ice scientist studying climate change.
Posted September 10, 2024
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NASA has selected eight companies for a new award to help acquire Earth observation data and provide related services for the agency.
Posted September 6, 2024
Earth
Airborne Science
Goddard Space Flight Center
PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem)
From sea to sky to orbit, a range of vantage points allow NASA Earth scientists to collect different types of data to better understand our changing planet. Collecting them together, at the same place and the same time, is an important step used to verify the accuracy of satellite data. NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean […]
Posted September 4, 2024
PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment)
Climate Change
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Polar
The PREFIRE mission will help develop a more detailed understanding of how much heat the Arctic and Antarctica radiate into space and how this influences global climate. NASA’s newest climate mission has started collecting data on the amount of heat in the form of far-infrared radiation that the Arctic and Antarctic environments emit to space. […]
Posted September 3, 2024
Earth
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
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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
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Ames Research Center
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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
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