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Earth Day Toolkit Available
2024.04.18
NASA’s fleet of satellites see the whole Earth, every day. This year, you can celebrate Earth Day with NASA wherever you are! Host your own Earth Day event—supported by NASA science—with activities, demonstrations, handouts, posters, videos, and more.
Earthdata Highlights NASA Worldview
2024.03.29
NASA Worldview enables users to interactively explore more than 1,000 satellite imagery layers, create visualizations, and download the underlying datasets. A new Data Tool in Action article on the Earthdata Website highlights some of the many features of this easy-to-use tool.
PACE Data Webinar Registration Open
2024.03.13
Ready to work with data from the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission? Join members of NASA’s Ocean Biology Distributed Active Archive Center (OB.DAAC) on Wednesday, March 27 at 2:00 PM ET (-0400 UTC), to learn how to discover, access, and use PACE data at OB.DAAC. Registration for this Earthdata webinar is open to everyone.
PACE Mission Blog: Liftoff! NASA’s Earth Science Mission Launches Into Space Coast Sky
2024.02.08
3, 2, 1 … LIFTOFF! A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) spacecraft launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 1:33 a.m. EST Thursday, Feb. 8.
PACE Mission Blog: Signal Acquired -- NASA’s PACE Spacecraft Begins Its Science Mission
2024.02.08
NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) spacecraft has successfully made contact with ground stations back on Earth providing teams with early readings of its overall status, health, operation, and capabilities postlaunch.
PACE Mission Blog: Weather Clears for PACE Launch
2024.02.07
Launch weather officers with Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s 45th Weather Squadron predict 95% favorable weather conditions for the launch of NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) mission aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The team is targeting liftoff at 1:33 a.m. EST Thursday, Feb. 8, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Space in Florida.
PACE Mission Blog: Weather Delays Launch of NASA’s PACE Mission
2024.02.07
NASA and SpaceX are standing down from the Wednesday, Feb. 7 launch of the agency’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission due to unfavorable weather conditions. NASA and SpaceX are now targeting launch at 1:33 a.m. EST Thursday, Feb. 8, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
PACE Mission Blog: Weather 50% For Launch of NASA’s Ocean, Atmosphere, Climate Mission
2024.02.06
Launch weather officers with Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s 45th Weather Squadron predict 50% favorable weather conditions for the launch of NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) mission aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
PACE Mission Blog: Weather 40% Favorable for Tuesday PACE Mission Launch
2024.02.05
Launch weather officers with Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s 45th Weather Squadron predict a 40% chance of favorable weather conditions for the launch of NASA’s PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) mission at 1:33 a.m. EST Tuesday, Feb. 6, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
PACE Mission Blog: Weather Delays Launch of NASA’s Ocean, Atmosphere, Climate Mission
2024.02.05
NASA and SpaceX are standing down from the Tuesday, Feb. 6 launch of the agency’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission due to unfavorable weather conditions. NASA and SpaceX are now targeting launch at 1:33 a.m. EST Wednesday, Feb. 7, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
PACE Mission Blog: Why the PACE team is nocturnal this week
2024.02.05
There’s a good reason why NASA’s PACE satellite is launching in the early morning hours. Late tonight, I’ll venture out in the chilly Merritt Island air to catch a glimpse of a historic sight.
Notes from the Field: The Long and Winding Road to Launch
2024.02.05
A few paths in life are short and direct; more of them are long and winding.
This week, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station carrying the PACE satellite, short for Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud ocean Ecosystem. Once in orbit 676 kilometers (420 miles) above our planet, the newest addition to NASA’s fleet of Earth-observers will look at the oceans and land surfaces in more than 100 wavelengths of light from the infrared through the visible spectrum and into the ultraviolet.
For NASA and the ocean science community, the PACE launch will be the culmination of 9 or 46 years of work, depending on when you start counting.
Black Marble Products Detail Maine Storm Impact/Recovery
2024.01.02
NASA's Black Marble Products (GSFC 619) were utilized to monitoring the impact and recovery pattern over Maine after the passage of the major storm system that swept up the east coast over the weekend of on December 16, 2023. The analysis utilized images to track the storm's impact on power outages and observe the subsequent recovery in the region. The resulting images were disseminated through NASA's Disaster Portal.
2023 Clarivate (Web of Science) Highly Cited Researchers
2023.11.14
Benjamin Cook (611), Joanna Joiner (614), Alexei Lyapustin (613), Doug Morton (618), Ben Poulter (618), Matt Rodell (610), Alex Ruane (611), and Eric Vermote (619) were selected as 2023 Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate (Web of Science). Recipients are recognized for their exceptional research influence, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year.
Black Marble Ukraine Data Visualization Commended
2023.10.20
The analysis done by Ranjay Shrestha(619/SSAI) utilizing Black Marble products (619) to capture the impact of the conflict on Kyiv, as showcased in a SKY News article, has received the 2023 Best Data Visualization award from the Royal Statistical Society. The analysis imageries provided a compelling visual context to the narrative of the conflict in Ukraine, illustrating the effects on its electricity grid and the gradual reduction in urban light levels throughout the duration of the conflict.
FIRMS 2023 Space Apps Challenge Proves Popular
2023.10.09
Otmar Olsina (619/SSAI), together with Asen Radov (619/UMD), Diane Davies (619/SSAI) and Jenny Hewson (423/SSAI), all part of NASA’s Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) Team, created a challenge for the 2023 NASA Space Apps Challenge. Their challenge, “Managing Fire: Increasing Community-based Fire Management Opportunities,” received the highest number of global nominees in Space Apps history, with 82 nominees. Overall, the Space Apps 2023 Challenge had 8,700 teams comprising over 57,000 participants from 152 countries. Winners of the Space Apps Challenge will be announced in January 2024.
BlackMarble Products in UNOSAT Report
2023.09.12
The United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT) released a report using NASA's Black Marble products (GSFC, 619) to assess the damage and recovery after the M6.8 Adassil/Al Haouz Earthquake in Morocco on September 8, 2023. The report reveals that Tameslohte had immediate power loss but was restored to pre-earthquake levels by September 10. In Amizmiz, power outages occurred on the first day after the earthquake, and recovery is ongoing, but power supply has not yet reached pre-earthquake levels.
GPM Outreach Team Focuses on Hurricane Hilary
2023.08.22
The GPM Outreach Team developed a visualization and web story about heavy rainfall in the Southwest U.S. from Hurricane Hilary, the first tropical storm to strike California since 1939. The animation was developed by Jason West (619/KBR), and the story was written by Stephen Lang (612/SSAI) with edits by Jacob Reed (617/Telophase). Jacob posted the story to the website and helped share the story on @NASAAtmosphere social media.
Wilcox Featured as Earthdata User Profile
2023.06.29
Dr. Eric Wilcox was featured in an Earthdata User Profile. The profile highlights Dr. Wilcox’s research on light-absorbing aerosols using LAADS DAAC’s atmospheric data.
Brazilian Wildfires Captured by NASA TROPESS
2023.06.21
The Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC) published a Data-in-Action web article, entitled “Brazilian Wildfires Captured by NASA TROPESS”, authored by Kristan Morgan (619/ADNET) and Lauren Hill-Beaton (619/ADNET). The article describes the observations of carbon monoxide, methane, and peroxyacetyl nitrate emissions from fires in Amazonia occurring in the 2022 dry season. The data, acquired by the Ozone Measuring Instrument (OMI), was processed by the TRopospheric Ozone and Precursors from Earth System Sounding (TROPESS) project.
Hall and Sohlberg Discuss Wildfires and Air Quality
2023.06.17
Joanne Hall (619/UMD) and Robert Sohlberg (619/UMD) joined Jayne Miller on Baltimore’s WBAL-AM 1090 to discuss recent wildfire events and air quality impacts; thriving with fire in a changing climate; and the NASA Applied Sciences Wildland Fires program. The program aired live, immediately before the Baltimore Orioles home baseball game.
FIRMS Surges in Popularity
2023.06.14
NASA's Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS), part of the Land, Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE) under code 619, was one of the most visited of all NASA websites over the last 7 days, and 30 days according to analytics.usa.gov. This is due the large wildfires in Canada.
Goddard Monitors Smoke from Canada Wildfires
2023.06.07
An unusually intense start to Canada’s wildfire season filled skies with smoke in May 2023. Then, at the beginning of June, scores of new fires raged in the eastern Canadian province of Quebec. NASA’s Aqua satellite, operated at Goddard, has captured imagery of the smoke. The Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO) based at Goddard has computed models of where the smoke may travel in coming days.
UNOSAT Marash/Antep Earthquake Report Utilizes Black Marble Products
2023.04.20
The United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT) released a report on damage and recovery assessment in Türkiye and Syria after the Marash/Antep Earthquake. The report utilized NASA’s Black Marble products to create nighttime light-derived time-series, which enabled the identification of provinces and cities that were severely affected by the earthquake, as well as capturing the recovery patterns for each major city.
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