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Colorful Celtic Sea
2024.05.15
Satellites captured an expansive blue and green phytoplankton bloom in the waters off France.
Smoke and Fire in British Columbia
2024.05.14
Unusually early and intense fires are spreading rapidly amid drought and high winds.
Hurricanes Have Left Their Mark on Louisiana’s Wetlands
2024.05.13
Scientists have been tracking how strong storms have eaten into the Gulf state’s coastline.
Water Levels Plunge in Philippine Reservoir
2024.05.11
Searing temperatures and little rain reduced water levels of Pantabangan Lake, one of the country’s largest reservoirs.
Floods Engulf Porto Alegre
2024.05.09
Torrential rains have unleashed widespread and destructive flooding in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil’s southernmost state.
Complex Beauty in the Gulf of Oman
2024.05.08
NASA's newest Earth science satellite captured a striking image of swirling bands of phytoplankton.
Sierra Snowpack Springs Back
2024.05.07
A May storm dumped over two feet of snow in one day on parts of the California mountain range.
Return of the GEDI: Space Station Instrument Returns to Forest Monitoring
2024.05.04
That’s no moon, that’s a space station! The return of NASA’s GEDI (Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation) is underway, as the agency’s very own “lightsaber” will soon be back to measuring forests in three dimensions after it was reinstalled on the International Space Station April 22.
Destructive Floods Afflict Tanzania
2024.05.02
Exacerbated by El Niño, heavy rains in spring 2024 caused severe flooding in Tanzania’s Rufiji district, among other areas in eastern Africa.
NASA’s ORCA, AirHARP Projects Paved Way for PACE to Reach Space
2024.04.26
It took the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission just 13 minutes to reach low-Earth orbit. It took a network of scientists at NASA and research institutions around the world more than 20 years to carefully craft and test the novel instruments that allow PACE to study the ocean and atmosphere with unprecedented clarity.
Severe Drought in Southern Africa
2024.04.24
One of the driest growing seasons in decades has decimated crops and left millions hungry.
AI for Earth: How NASA’s Artificial Intelligence and Open Science Efforts Combat Climate Change
2024.04.18
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. The artificial intelligence (AI) efforts spearheaded by the..
Spring Floods Sweep Across Central Asia
2024.04.17
Rivers overtopped their banks and submerged thousands of homes in Russia and Kazakhstan.
NASA Invites Media for Climate Update, New Earth Missions
2024.04.17
n anticipation of Earth Day, NASA invites media to a briefing at the agency’s headquarters on Friday, April 19, at 11 a.m. EDT. The event will share updates on NASA’s climate science and early data from the agency’s ocean-watching PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) mission, as well as reveal upcoming Earth airborne missions.
NASA’s Near Space Network Enables PACE Climate Mission to ‘Phone Home’
2024.04.17
The PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) mission has delivered its first operational data back to researchers, a feat made possible in part by innovative, data-storing technology from NASA’s Near Space Network, which introduced two key enhancements for PACE and other upcoming science missions. As a satellite orbits in space, its systems generate critical data […]
Tech Today: Taking Earth’s Pulse with NASA Satellites
2024.04.17
Natural disasters like volcanic eruptions, floods, and tornados can dramatically change the surface of Earth to the point where alterations are visible in space. Changes driven by human actions and interventions, such as mining and deforestation, are also visible in satellite imagery. For over 50 years, NASA’s Landsat satellites have recorded our planet’s changing surface. […]
Kate A. McGinnis: Ready to “Go” with PACE Testing
2024.04.16
PACE Systems Engineer Kate A. McGinnis spent years planning the vibration, acoustic, and shock tests for the PACE spacecraft before saying “Systems is ‘go’” to start each test.
The Ocean Touches Everything: Celebrate Earth Day with NASA
2024.04.12
On Earth Day, Learn How NASA Investigates the Blue in Our Blue Planet This Earth Day, join us in person and online to learn how NASA studies the ocean from space. Explore the complex connections between sea, air, land, and climate through a mix of in-person and virtual activities, talks, and trivia. For nearly five […]
A “Surprisingly Average” Year for Sierra Snowpack
2024.04.12
The amount of snow in the California-Nevada mountain range was about average in April 2024—a rare occurrence.
NASA’s PACE Data on Ocean, Atmosphere, Climate Now Available
2024.04.11
NASA is now publicly distributing science-quality data from its newest Earth-observing satellite, providing first-of-their-kind measurements of ocean health, air quality, and the effects of a changing climate. The Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite was launched on Feb. 8, and has been put through several weeks of in-orbit testing of the spacecraft and instruments to ensure […]
Sometimes Getting the Perfect Picture Really Is Rocket Science
2024.04.10
NASA Engineer Cindy Fuentes Rosal waves goodbye to a Black Brant IX sounding rocket launching from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia during the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024.
NASA Wallops Launches 3 Rockets During Eclipse in Virginia
2024.04.09
Three Black Brant IX sounding rockets launched from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia April 8, 2024, during the solar eclipse.
NASA’s Lola Fatoyinbo Receives Royal Geographical Society Prize
2024.04.09
Dr. Lola Fatoyinbo, a research scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, received the Esmond B. Martin Royal Geographical Society (RGS) Prize on April 8 in London. The prize, according to the RGS, recognizes “outstanding achievement by an individual in the pursuit and/or application of geographical research, with a particular emphasis on […]
Is the Wilkins Ice Shelf Weakening?
2024.04.06
Signs of structural weaknesses may signal a shift in this Antarctic ice shelf’s stability.
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