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The FireSense Project

Expanded coverage of topics from “The Editor’s Corner” in The Earth Observer Wind is a major factor in fire. It controls how fires evolve and pose threats to the safety of communities. Traditionally, data from weather balloons have been used to produce vertical soundings to define changes in atmospheric dynamics.

Posted March 20, 2025

Earth Science

Kaye Honored with Pecora Award

Expanded coverage of topics from “The Editor’s Corner” in The Earth Observer Jack Kaye [NASA Headquarters—Associate Director for Research of the Earth Science Division] has received the 2024 William T.

Posted March 20, 2025

Droughts

Earth

Floods

Water on Earth

NASA Uses Advanced Radar to Track Groundwater in California

NASA’s radar-equipped jet is detecting ground movements to track snowmelt’s journey into California’s depleted groundwater aquifers.

Posted March 20, 2025

NASA Centers & Facilities

Langley Research Center

NASA Langley Dedicates Artemis Moon Tree

A tree that sprouted from a seed that journeyed around the Moon and back is growing at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.

Posted March 20, 2025

NASA History

Gemini III

Humans in Space

John W. Young

Virgil I. Grissom

Fallout from the Unauthorized Gemini III Space Sandwich

“I hid a sandwich in my spacesuit,” Astronaut John W. Young confessed in the April 2, 1965, issue of Life Magazine. The conversation about and the consumption of the sandwich, which lasted only about 30 seconds during the Gemini III flight, became a serious matter that drew the ire of Congress and NASA’s administrator after […]

Posted March 20, 2025

Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI)

Get Involved

Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing Program

Beyond the Algorithm Challenge

The NASA Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO) seeks solutions to complex Earth Science problems using transformative or unconventional computing technologies such as quantum computing, quantum machine learning, neuromorphic computing, or in-memory computing.

Posted March 20, 2025

SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography)

Earth

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Oceans

Next-Generation Water Satellite Maps Seafloor From Space

More accurate maps based on data from the SWOT mission can improve underwater navigation and result in greater knowledge of how heat and life move around the world’s ocean. There are better maps of the Moon’s surface than of the bottom of Earth’s ocean. Researchers have been working for decades to change that. As part […]

Posted March 19, 2025

Kennedy Space Center

New Bridge Ready to Serve NASA, America’s Space Interests

The high-rise bridge that serves as the primary access point for employees and visitors to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida is fully operational. In the late hours of March 18, 2025, the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) opened the westbound portion of the NASA Causeway Bridge, which spans the Indian River Lagoon and connects […]

Posted March 19, 2025

Welcome Home, Crew-9!

NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore, left, Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, second from left, and NASA astronauts Nick Hague, second from right, and Suni Williams, right, are all smiles as they wait to exit a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on March 18, 2025.

Posted March 19, 2025

Astrophysics

Citizen Science