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Image of a new metasurface material developed by Harvard researchers to develop new lightweight polarimeters.

NASA Collaboration Using Harvard Technology Could Advance Earth Science from Orbit

06.09.2021
Measuring the polarization of scattered sunlight lets scientists extrapolate what is in the atmosphere.
A false-color composite image of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data from the European Space Agency Sentinel-1 satellite on April 12, 2021

Impacts to St. Vincent from the La Soufrière Volcano Eruption

06.02.2021
In early April, the La Soufrière volcano on the island of Saint Vincent violently erupted - the first major eruption since 1979. Researchers from the NASA Disasters program area, who have been monitoring the volcanic activity on Saint Vincent since January, used satellite data to observe impacts to the island and local communities.
Image of Earth's atmosphere from space

New NASA Data Sheds (Sun) Light on Climate Models

05.14.2021
Scientists at the University of Michigan, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and University of Colorado Boulder recently used TSIS-1 SSI data in a global climate model for the first time.
Satellite image of Saharan dust plume across Atlantic Ocean

Earth Day Connections: NASA Study Predicts Less Saharan Dust in Future Winds

04.19.2021
Temperature and weather systems each interact with, and are influenced by, a multitude of Earth systems, each affected by the warming climate. One of those is the global transport of massive dust plumes from one continent to another.
3D map of data from the La Soufrière volcano eruption

NASA’s Terra Satellite Captures La Soufrière Volcanic Ash Cloud in 3D

04.19.2021
The La Soufrière volcano has produced multiple explosive eruptions over the past week, blanketing the island of Saint Vincent in volcanic ash and propelling ash and gas high into the atmosphere over the Caribbean sea.
Map of La Soufrière’s plume height

Tracking La Soufrière’s Plume

04.16.2021
Explosive eruptions from the Caribbean volcano have flung ash and sulfate particles to the stratosphere.
Blue marble image of Earth

NASA’s 2021 Virtual Earth Day Event – Online, April 21–24

04.13.2021
NASA’s 2021 Virtual Earth Day Event – Online, April 21–24 You’re invited to NASA’s 2021 Virtual Earth Day Event, held April 21-24. Registration is FREE and open to the public!
Model depiction of global carbon dioxide (CO2) levels

Direct Observations Confirm that Humans are Throwing Earth's Energy Budget off Balance

03.25.2021
Earth is on a budget – an energy budget. Our planet is constantly trying to balance the flow of energy in and out of Earth's system. But human activities are throwing that off balance, causing our planet to warm in response.
Illustration of ISS in orbit

NASA Discoveries, R&D, Moon to Mars Exploration Plans Persevere in 2020

12.21.2020
"NASA has impressed the nation with our resilience and persistence during the pandemic," said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine.
Photo montage of AGU honorees

NASA Scientists Named AGU 2020 Union Honorees

12.10.2020
Nine individuals with NASA affiliations have been named 2020 Union honorees or fellows by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and will receive honors bestowed by AGU for their excellence in scientific research, education, communication, and outreach.
Video snippet of Earth rotating while the shadow of a total solar eclipse crosses the northern hemisphere

Eclipse 2017 Shines Light on the Sun-Earth Connection

12.10.2020
Aug. 21, 2017, marked a unique opportunity for scientists in the contiguous U.S. — for the first time in nearly a century, a total solar eclipse would sweep coast to coast, providing scientists under the path of totality with a rare chance to study the Sun and Earth in uncommon ways.
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NCCS, CISTO, and Partners Present Advances at Virtual AGU Fall Meeting

12.01.2020
Researchers from the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS), its parent Computational Information & Sciences and Technology Office (CISTO), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and university partner organizations are participating in the Scientific Program at the 2020 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, being held online 1–17 Dec 2020.
Landsat 8 satellite image of dust storm over the Gulf of Alaska

Copper River Valley Dust Cloud

11.05.2020
Dust storms are relatively common in places like the Sahara Desert, but they also happen at high latitudes in places such as Alaska.
Photo of Mike Carlowicz in the Arctic

NASA Earth Observatory’s Managing Editor, Mike Carlowicz

10.07.2020
Mike Carlowicz is the managing editor of NASA Earth Observatory, which publishes a different image-based story about Earth every day. He is responsible for helping the team find and shape those stories, edit them, and put them together with strong visuals.
series of images above shows the abundance and distribution of black carbon

A Meeting of Smoke and Storms

09.19.2020
Satellites tracked smoke from wildfires as it spanned the continental United States and followed winds around two hurricanes.
Satellite image of fires in Pantanal

Fires Char the Pantanal

09.18.2020
Drought-parched wetlands in South America have been burning for weeks.
Suomi NPP satelite image of smoke from Pacific fires traveling across continental U.S.

Historic Fires Devastate the U.S. Pacific Coast

09.12.2020
Satellite data is helping scientists size up one of the most intense outbreaks of fire and smoke that Oregon and California have seen in decades.
Still from animation of thunderstorms across Lake Victoria

Watching Thunderstorms March Across Lake Victoria

09.10.2020
The lake in eastern Africa is known for its intense nighttime thunderstorms, which are influenced by the lake's location, size, and nearby topography.
Photo of Kevin Ward

Communicating NASA Earth Science With Kevin Ward

09.09.2020
Kevin Ward's Earth Observatory team focuses on communicating how NASA uses remote sensing satellites, airborne, and in situ data to look at our planet and learn how the Earth system works.
Terra satellite false-color map depicting the burn area of the River and Carmel fires

From Space and in the Air, NASA Tracks California's Wildfires

09.01.2020
As California experiences one of the worst wildfire seasons on record, NASA is leveraging its resources to help.
Suomi NPP satellite image image of Siberia with aerosol concentrations indicated using the Aerosol index

NASA Finds High Aerosol Content Across Siberia

08.31.2020
NASA/NOAA's Suomi NPP imaged the fires and smoke across Russia's Siberian province on Aug. 31, 2020 and found massive aerosols coming off the fires and heading high into the atmosphere.
Suomi NPP satellite image of smoke from California wildfires

NOAA/NASA's Suomi NPP Satellite Shows Two Views of California's Smoky Skies

08.31.2020
NOAA/NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite captured two images that tell the story about the smoke coming off the fires in California.
Photo of Kathryn Hansen

From Astronomical Observatory to Earth Observatory: Translating Science With Kathryn Hansen

08.26.2020
As a science writer for NASA's Earth Observatory, Kathryn Hansen has made a career out of learning new things directly from the experts and then relaying that in a relatable way to others. But initially she wanted to be astronomer, until a summer job in college changed her perspective.
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Observing Our Earth Through Visualization With Joshua Stevens

08.20.2020
Josh Stevens is a data visualizer, creating imagery from NASA's Earth science data. He pairs geographic analysis with the science of how people see, think, and reason about graphics to communicate about our planet.
GEOS5 global image of Dust Aerosol Optical Thickness

A Dust Plume to Remember

07.01.2020
While dust routinely blows across the Atlantic Ocean, scientists rarely see plumes as large and dense with particles as the one that darkened Caribbean skies in June 2020.

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