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Terra satellite image of Brunt Ice Shelf

Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf Finally Breaks

01.25.2023
A long-watched rift has spawned an iceberg about twice the size of New York City.
Landsat 9 satellite image of sea ice in the Weddell Sea

Clear Days for Iceberg Spotting

01.11.2023
The summer sky was unusually cloud-free when NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over the Antarctic Peninsula.
Still from animation depicting Northeast Greenland Ice Stream Cumulative Thinning since 2007

Thinning of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream

01.07.2023
Greenland’s largest ice stream is expected to contribute more to sea level rise than models previously indicated.
Aqua satellite false-color image of flooding in California

Floodwater Inundates North-Central California

01.04.2023
Heavy rain and levee breaches triggered flooding in parts of Sacramento and the Bay Area.
Aqua satellite natural-color image of blizzard conditions across U.S. upper Midwest

Blizzard Conditions in the U.S. Northeast

12.28.2022
An Arctic cold front swept across the Great Lakes and brought fierce winds and potent lake-effect snow.
CISTO Chief and SMCE Government Manager Dr. Daniel Duffy presenting in front of the NASA hyperwall during Supercomputing 2022

NASA’s SMCE Team Helps Scientists Develop Collaborative Cloud Computing Projects

12.21.2022
An agile team of computer experts at NASA Goddard helps scientists collaborate and develop Open Science projects in astrophysics, Earth science, biology, and heliophysics by creating the SMCE managed cloud environment for science.
Image of moon over Earth's atmosphere

NASA Press Events at 2022 Fall AGU Meeting

12.08.2022
NASA researchers will be presenting findings on Earth and space sciences Dec.12-16 at the American Geophysical Union's 2022 Fall meeting, being held virtually and in Chicago this year.
Photo of ice in the Weddell Sea

Phytoplankton May Be Abundant Under Antarctic Sea Ice, Study Suggests

11.28.2022
A decade ago, scientists on a NASA-sponsored ocean expedition found massive populations of phytoplankton blooming beneath sea ice in the Arctic Ocean. Now scientists using underwater instruments and a NASA satellite have found evidence of potentially significant blooms beneath the sea ice encircling Antarctica.
Terra/Aqua MODIS image of Arctic cyclone over the Arctic Ocean

Arctic Cyclones to Intensify as Climate Warms, NASA Study Predicts

11.15.2022
NASA scientists project spring Arctic cyclones will intensify by the end of this century because of sea ice loss and rapidly warming air and water surface temperatures.
Image of Mount Terror with elevation map profile below it

A Mountain of Terror?

10.29.2022
The Antarctic volcano is not as terrifying as its name implies.
Image of FY21 NASA Economic Report

NASA’s Economic Benefit Reaches All 50 States

10.27.2022
NASA released the results of its second agencywide economic impact report on Thursday, demonstrating how its Moon to Mars activities, investments in climate change research and technology, as well as other work generated more than $71.2 billion in total economic output during fiscal year 2021.
Three images of Greenland depicting Rate of Elevation Change (m/yr)

Taking Stock of Edgy Parts of Greenland

09.30.2022
Loss of ice at the periphery of the Greenland Ice Sheet was often discounted; recent research suggests it should not be.
Still from animation depicting Arctic summer sea ice

2022 Arctic Summer Sea Ice Tied for 10th-Lowest on Record

09.22.2022
According to satellite observations, Arctic sea ice reached its annual minimum extent on Sept. 18, 2022.
Natural-color Landsat 8 image of Greenland

A Half-Century of Loss in Northwest Greenland

08.30.2022
A pair of Landsat images acquired 49 years apart reveals where the region’s glaciers and ice caps have retreated and narrowed.
Image of Arctic sea ice floating in Wolstenholme Fjord in northwestern Greenland in July 2022

NASA Ice Scientists Take Flight from Greenland to Study Melting Arctic Ice

07.11.2022
Over the next two weeks, a handful of NASA scientists will be living very different lives from the rest of us: they will board a research plane in Greenland alongside laser instruments to help calibrate NASA’s space-based measurements of Arctic ice.
Artist illustration of ICESat-2 lasers measuring ice shelf

NASA Approves Continuation of ICESat-2 After 3+ Years of Big Results

06.28.2022
As ICESat-2 mission receives the green light to continue operation after successfully completing its three-year primary mission, scientists highlight what it has already discovered.
Montage of images showing A-68A thickness over years

Tracking the Demise of a Giant Antarctic Iceberg

05.25.2022
Scientists recently chronicled the death throes of A-68A, one of the world’s largest-known icebergs.
Landsat 8 satellite image of Peyto Glacier in August 2021

Losing a Long-Watched Glacier

05.03.2022
Scientists have been observing Peyto Glacier in Alberta since the 1960s.
Triptych of images of eastern Antarctica acquired by Landsat satellites between 1989 and 2022.

Ice Lost, Island Found?

04.27.2022
An unnamed mound of white off East Antarctica seems to be an island.
Earth Day 2022 Poster image

Join NASA's Earth Day Event

04.22.2022
Join us in person or virtually. Registration is open for virtual events.

Discover supercomputer

Every Day is Earth Day at the NASA Center for Climate Simulation

04.22.2022
The theme of Earth Day 2022 is “Investing in Earth.” A significant investment in understanding Earth has already been made with the creation of the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in 1990, where every day is Earth Day.
Photo of Catherine Walker on the McMurdo Ice Shelf in Antarctica

Gravity Assist: Walking on Broken Ice, with Catherine Walker

04.22.2022
An Antarctic ice shelf collapsed in March, concerning scientists who track melting glaciers, sea level rise, and other effects of climate change. Catherine Walker, a visiting scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, uses NASA satellite data to look at the progression of events like this one to understand how large ice structures collapse.
Photo of snowcover taken by astronaut on ISS

NASA Scientist Discovers New Means to Measure Snow Depth from Space

04.20.2022
A NASA scientist is adding a new dimension to the climate-observing powers of a satellite instrument whose main mission is to measure the height of Earth's ice sheets and sea ice. And the inspiration for this new method comes from how ants walk around their colonies.
The iconic “Earthrise” image of Earth appearing over the Moon’s horizon as seen from the Apollo 8 spacecraft, taken during a live broadcast with NASA astronauts from the lunar orbit on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 1968.

NASA Celebrates Earth Day with Every #NASAEarthling

04.18.2022
NASA’s space exploration continues to inspire us to be better stewards of our planet and Earth Day is a great time to celebrate what we’ve done and can do to keep Earth everyone’s favorite planet in the universe.
Image series from Aqua and Terra satellites of Antarctic ice shelf collapse

Ice Shelf Collapse in East Antarctica

03.29.2022
The shelf’s disintegration in March 2022 has reshaped a landscape where coastal glacial ice was once thought to be stable.

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