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Artist's conception of OSIRIS-REx landing on an asteroid.

NASA's Asteroid Sample Return Mission Moves into Development

05.16.2013
OSIRIS-REx, NASA’s first mission to sample an asteroid, is moving ahead into development and testing in preparation for its launch in 2016.
Artist concept of radiometers flown in constellation of satellites around Earth

Team WIns Cubesat Berth to Gather Earth Energy Imbalance Measurements

05.16.2013
A team of scientists has won a berth on a tiny satellite to explore one of NASA's last frontiers in climate studies: the imbalance in Earth's energy budget.
Photo of Aletsch Glacier in Switzerland

NASA Data Pinpoints Glaciers' Role in Sea Level Rise

05.16.2013
99% of Earth’s land ice is locked into the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. But from 2003–2009, the world’s other glaciers contributed equally to sea level rise as the two ice sheets combined.
Terra image of Alaska's Pavlof Volcano

Alaska's Pavlof Volcano Erupts

05.16.2013
For the third time this century, Alaska’s Pavlof Volcano is erupting.
screenshot of animation depicting Landsat view from space

LDCM Arrives in Final Orbit

05.15.2013
The Landsat Data Continuity Mission offers a look at Earth from space with a crisper view than our eyes alone would be capable of.
Aqua image of Alvin

Tropical Cyclone Alvin (Eastern Pacific Ocean)

05.15.2013
The Hurricane Season of the Eastern Pacific Ocean officially begins today, May 15 and NASA satellites captured imagery of the first named tropical storm, Alvin.
Terra image of ice on Dauphin Lake

An Ice Shove on Dauphin Lake

05.15.2013
Strong winds sent a wall of ice crashing into cottages along the southwestern shore of Manitoba’s Dauphin Lake on May 10, 2013. A total of 27 houses near Ochre Beach were damaged, 13 beyond repair.
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of the X1.2 class solar flare on May 14, 2013.

Activity Continues On the Sun

05.15.2013
Solar activity continued on May 14, 2013, as the sun emitted a fourth X-class (X1.2) flare from its upper left limb, peaking at 9:48 p.m. EDT.
Aqua's AIRS instrument captured an image of both the remnants of Tropical Cyclone Jamala (right) in the Southern Indian Ocean, and Tropical Cyclone Mahasen (left) in the Northern Indian Ocean.

Tropical Cyclone Jamala (Southern Indian Ocean)

05.13.2013
Tropical Cyclone Jamala is fading...
NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this visible image of a well-rounded Tropical Cyclone Mahasen in the Northern Indian Ocean on May 15

Tropical Cyclone Mahasen (Northern Indian Ocean)

05.13.2013
The first tropical cyclone in the Northern Indian Ocean this season has been getting better organized as seen in NASA satellite imagery.
Four images from NASA's SDO of an X3.2-class flare from late at night on May 13, 2013.

Three X-class Flares in 24 Hours

05.13.2013
The sun emitted a third significant solar flare in under 24 hours, peaking at 9:11 p.m. EDT on May 13, 2013. This flare is classified as an X3.2 flare.
Image of solar flare

Impacts of Strong Solar Flares

05.13.2013
While we need to protect Earth from the most intense forms of space weather, some people worry that a gigantic flare could hurl enough energy to destroy Earth, but this is not actually possible.
Aqua image of Southern Australia fires

NASA Sees Controlled Fires in Southern Australia

05.13.2013
Today's image of southern Australia showing New South Wales and Victoria shows a series of controlled fires.
Terra image of Tropical Cyclone Jamala

NASA Sees Two Tropical Systems in Indian Ocean

05.10.2013
The Indian Ocean is alive with tropical activity today, May 10, as there’s a tropical storm in both the northern and southern oceans.
Landsat image of Columbia Glacier in 2011

New Public Application of Landsat Images Released

05.10.2013
Google released more than a quarter-century of images of Earth taken from space Thursday compiled into an interactive time-lapse experience
Aqua image of Siberian fires

Wildfires in Siberia

05.10.2013
The Aqua satellite provided this satellite image showing a series of hotspots found in the Siberian region of Russia. These hotspots have been categorized as wildfires rather than agricultural fires.
Photo of NASA Wallops Aircraft Office flight engineer Brian Yates meets his children after the P-3B returned from Operation IceBridge’s Arctic 2013 campaign

Operation IceBridge: A Stormy Finish

05.09.2013
After several weeks of survey flights the IceBridge team has returned from the Arctic and have started processing collected data and planning for the Antarctic campaign coming up later this year.
False color Landsat image of Springs Fire burnscar

Mapping the Severity of California's Springs Fire from Space

05.09.2013
The Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM), the newest Landsat satellite, passed over the Springs Fire on May 4, 2013.
Photo of the D3R radar, which measures precipitation at similar frequencies as the radar on the GPM Core satellite, measured rain, snow, and sleet at the Traer site in Iowa.

Notes from the Field: Spring Data Collection Features a Winter Mix

05.09.2013
The GPM Ground Validation team collected a coordinated, co-scanned multi-radar frequency and dual-polarimetric dataset with the D3R and NPOL radars in a mixture of rain, snow and sleet.
Terra image of northeastern Indian fires

Fires in Northeastern India

05.07.2013
NASA’s Terra satellite detected dozens of fires burning in northeastern India on May 05, 2013.
Soho,Stereo and SDO captured images of a gigantic eruption on the sun on May 1, 2013.

NASA's Many Eyes On the Sun

05.07.2013
Several missions within NASA’s Heliophysics observatory (Soho,Stereo,SDO) captured images of a gigantic eruption on the sun on May 1, 2013. Working together, such missions provide excellent coverage.
Still from winning video for hurricanes

NASA Announces Winners of Student 'Reel Science Communications' Video Contest

05.06.2013
NASA has selected the winners of NASA's educational "REEL Science Communications" video contest.
B/W Suomi NPP satellite image of Springs Fire

Satellite Captures Night-time image of California’s Springs Fire

05.06.2013
From its orbit around the Earth, the NASA-NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite or Suomi NPP satellite, captured a night-time image of California’s Springs Fire.
Screen capture of animation showing smoke from Springs Fire

Satellite Animation Shows Smoke from California’s Springs Fire

05.06.2013
On May 3, 2013, the GOES infrared and visible imagery were combined to create an animation that showed the plume of smoke from the fire.
Landsat image of Paluweh volcano ash plume

Landsat Thermal Sensor Lights Up from Volcano's Heat

05.06.2013
As the Landsat Data Continuity Mission satellite flew over Indonesia's Flores Sea April 29, it captured an image of Paluweh volcano spewing ash into the air.
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