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Climate Change
Earth
Earth System Observatory (ESO)
Natural Disasters
Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO)
NASA has selected six new airborne missions that include domestic and international studies of fire-induced clouds, Arctic coastal change, air quality, landslide hazards, shrinking glaciers, and emissions from agricultural lands.
Posted April 19, 2024
Galaxies
Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Space Telescope
Missions
Seyfert Galaxies
Spiral Galaxies
The Universe
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features NGC 3783, a bright barred spiral galaxy about 130 million light-years from Earth that also lends its name to the eponymous NGC 3783 galaxy group. Like galaxy clusters, galaxy groups are aggregates of gravitationally bound galaxies.
Posted April 19, 2024
Earth Day
Kennedy Space Center
STEM Engagement at NASA
Sustainability at Kennedy Space Center
At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, sustainability and preservation efforts here on Earth are as much of a priority as rocket launches, spacecraft, and the exploration of worlds beyond our own.
Posted April 19, 2024
Earth
As extreme weather events increase around the world due to climate change, the need for further research into our warming planet has increased as well. For NASA, climate research involves not only conducting studies of these events, but also empowering outside researchers to do the same.
Posted April 19, 2024
Blogs
Curiosity (Rover)
Mars
Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
Earth planning date: Wednesday, April 17, 2024 Curiosity continues to make progress along the margin of upper Gediz Vallis ridge, investigating the broken bedrock in our workspace and acquiring images of the ridge deposit as the rover drives south. Today’s 2-sol plan focused on a DRT, contact science, and drive on the first sol, followed […]
Posted April 18, 2024
Real satellite imagery from NASA’s Terra, Aqua, and Landsat missions takes the shape of whales and swirling clouds in the agency’s Earth Day 2024 poster, “Water Touches Everything.” The major ocean basins – Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Indian, and Southern – shape our planet’s climate and weather by absorbing, storing, and moving heat, water, and car
Posted April 18, 2024
Juno
Io
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jupiter
Jupiter Moons
The Solar System
Imagery from the solar-powered spacecraft provides close-ups of intriguing features on the hellish Jovian moon.
Posted April 18, 2024
NASA History
The rapid pace of preparations for the first Moon landing continued in April 1969. The successful Apollo 9 mission in March cleared the way for Apollo 10 to test all three components of the spacecraft in lunar orbit in May, in a dress rehearsal for the landing itself. Apollo 10 astronauts Thomas P. Stafford, John […]
Posted April 18, 2024
Solar Flares
Sounding Rockets
Sounding Rockets Program
Wallops Flight Facility
Two Black Brant IX sounding rockets launched from Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, April 17, 2024, during an M-class solar flare for NASA’s sounding rocket solar flare campaign. The first rocket launched at 2:13 p.m. local Alaska time for the Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager (FOXSI) mission that used X-ray vision to observe […]
Posted April 18, 2024
ISS Research
Climate Change
Ecostress (ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station)
EMIT (Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation)
General
International Space Station (ISS)
SAGE III (Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment)
SAGE-III Meteor-3M (Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III on Meteor-3M)
Science in Space: April 2024 Everyone on Earth is touched by the effects of climate change, such as hotter temperatures, shifts in rain patterns, and sea level rise. Collecting climate data helps communities better plan for these changes and build more resilience to them.
Posted April 18, 2024
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