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NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Celebrates 60 Years

04.29.2019
On May 1, 1959, the Beltsville Space Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, was renamed NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in honor of Robert H. Goddard, widely considered the father of modern rocketry. Thus began a 60-year boom in science and technological innovation.
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Greenland Refrozen

04.29.2019
Most indications of meltwater ponds and lakes on the ice sheet are leftovers from past seasons that have since refrozen.
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NASA Celebrates Earth Day with Social Media, Public Events

04.18.2019
This Earth Day, April 22, NASA invites you to celebrate our beautiful home planet by participating in a global social media event and local events around the country.
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Warm Winds Trigger Melting in Antarctica

04.12.2019
Unusual late-season events could produce long-term changes to the snowpack on the Larsen C ice shelf.
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Picture Earth for Earth Day 2019

04.12.2019
For Earth Day 2019, NASA invites you to celebrate the planet we call home with our #PictureEarth social media event.
NASA Earth Observatory animation of Pine Island Glacier retreat, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview.

The Wide View of a Shrinking Glacier: Retreat at Pine Island

04.09.2019
Pine Island Glacier is one of the fastest-retreating glaciers in Antarctica. This timeline highlights the most notable calving events of the past two decades.
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NASA Begins Final Year of Airborne Polar Ice Mission

04.04.2019
This is the last year for Operation IceBridge, NASA’s most comprehensive airborne survey of ice change.
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Operation IceBridge: Exploring Alaska’s Mountain Glaciers

04.02.2019
In Alaska, 5 percent of the land is covered by glaciers that are losing a lot of ice and contributing to sea level rise.
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A Decade of Exploring Alaska’s Mountain Glaciers

03.29.2019
In Alaska, five percent of the land is covered by glaciers that are contributing to sea level rise in ways disproportionately large to their size. A small airborne campaign has been monitoring these changes since 2009.
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Help NASA Measure Trees with Your Smartphone

03.26.2019
A new smartphone-based project allows people to document the trees around them in order to learn more about their environment and provide valuable data to NASA scientists who study our home planet.
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Arctic Sea Ice 2019 Wintertime Extent Is Seventh Lowest

03.20.2019
The 2019 Arctic sea ice maximum extent ties with 2007's for seventh lowest in the satellite record, continuing the long-term decline of the Arctic sea ice pack.
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Decoding Extreme Weather at the Poles

03.15.2019
A silvery metal tube jutting out of thick ice stands alone amid a vast landscape of endless white in Antarctica.
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NASA Invites Media to 57th Annual Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium

03.15.2019
Media are invited to the 57th Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium on March 20-21.
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Countdown to Calving at Brunt Ice Shelf

02.20.2019
Cracks growing across the ice shelf are poised to release an iceberg about twice size of New York City.
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New NASA Book Shares Beauty of Earth from Space

02.20.2019
NASA’s new 168-page book “Earth,” a collection of dramatic images captured by Earth-observing satellites, is available now in hardcover and ebook, and online with interactive features.
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NASA Finds Possible Second Impact Crater Under Greenland Ice

02.11.2019
A NASA glaciologist has discovered a possible second impact crater buried under more than a mile of ice in northwest Greenland.
ICESat-2 Sees the Trees in Mexico

ICESat-2 Sees the Trees in Mexico

01.29.2019
The satellite measures more than just polar ice; it also makes detailed elevation measurements over the planet’s tropical and temperate latitudes.
Elevation measurement of sea ice in the Weddell Sea

Thick and Thin Ice in the Weddell Sea

12.18.2018
New elevation measurements will give researchers an unprecedented understanding of the thickness of sea ice, which will be used to help improve climate modeling and forecasts.
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Snow over Antarctica Buffered Sea Level Rise during Last Century

12.13.2018
A new NASA-led study has determined that an increase in snowfall accumulation over Antarctica during the 20th century mitigated sea level rise by 0.4 inches.
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ICESat-2 Reveals Profile of Ice Sheets, Sea Ice, Forests

12.11.2018
A detailed profile of Earth's ice and forests – newly formed sea ice, rugged glaciers of Antarctica, trees towering over a hillside - is revealed in the first results from NASA's ICESat-2.
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More Glaciers in East Antarctica Are Waking Up

12.10.2018
New detailed NASA maps of ice velocity and elevation show that a group of glaciers spanning along one eighth of East Antarctica's coast have begun to wake up over the past decade, hinting at widespread changes in the ocean.
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Wintertime Arctic Sea Ice Growth Slows Long-term Decline: NASA

12.06.2018
The Arctic sea ice cover has been on a steep decline for the past decades. But new NASA research has found that increases in seasonal winter Arctic ice growth may have helped prevent an even more rapid rate of decline.
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International Team, NASA Make Unexpected Discovery Under Greenland Ice

11.14.2018
An international team of researchers, including a NASA glaciologist, has discovered a large meteorite impact crater hiding beneath more than a half-mile of ice in northwest Greenland.
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Pine Island Glacier Quickly Drops Another Iceberg

11.09.2018
Calving that used to happen about every six years has become a near-annual event.
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Massive Antarctic Iceberg Spotted on NASA IceBridge Flight

11.08.2018
NASA’s Operation IceBridge on Wednesday, November 7 flew over an iceberg that is three times the size of Manhattan – the first time anyone has laid eyes on the giant iceberg, dubbed B-46 by the U.S. National Ice Center, that broke off from Pine Island Glacier in late October.
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