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Photo of PACE observatory entering GSFC's thermal vacuum chamber

PACE Successfully Completes Key Environmental Test

09.06.2023
The PACE observatory enters a thermal vacuum chamber at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. It stayed in the chamber for 33 days of testing.
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Surf, Turf, Above Earth: Students Participate in NASA Field Research

08.16.2023
Flying over and tromping through watery landscapes along the East Coast, working alongside NASA scientists, and recording measurements about the air that they’re flying through – these are not the usual experiences for an undergraduate student. For the 2023 participants in NASA’s SARP East program, it was part of a summer they won't forget.
In this image, our Sun's glint beams off the Indian Ocean as the International Space Station orbited about 270 miles above the Earth near western Australia.

NASA to Discuss Temperature Data, Climate Goals

08.11.2023
On the heels of record-breaking temperatures in June, NASA will host a news conference at 11 a.m. EDT on Monday, Aug. 14, to discuss its latest climate data.
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NASA Software Catalog Offers Free Programs for Earth Science, More

08.09.2023
Each year, NASA scientists, engineers, and developers create software packages to manage space missions, test spacecraft, and analyze the petabytes of data produced by agency research satellites. As the agency innovates for the benefit of humanity, many of these programs are now downloadable and free of charge through NASA’s Software Catalog.
NOAA-20 satellite image of sediment and phytoplankton blooms off of Vancouver Island

Vancouver Island’s Colorful Coastline

08.02.2023
Swirls of phytoplankton and sediment brightened the island’s coastal waters in July 2023.
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NASA Offers Many Resources to Monitor Climate Change

07.20.2023
In light of recent extreme weather events in the United States and around the world, NASA held a media roundtable July 20 from its headquarters in Washington to highlight the agency’s climate work.
Image of braided river in New Zealand

Crews Head Down River, Out to Sea to Prep New SWOT Water Satellite

07.20.2023
A lot of hard work goes into ensuring a spacecraft like the Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite delivers accurate data.
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NASA to Discuss Climate Work in Wake of Record High Temps

07.17.2023
NASA leadership, including climate experts, will be available at 4 p.m. EDT on Thursday, July 20, at the agency’s headquarters in Washington to shed light on recent extreme weather events, and discuss how NASA research and data is enabling climate solutions.
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NASA Space Apps Announces 2023 Theme: Explore Open Science Together

07.13.2023
NASA Space Apps, in collaboration with NASA Transform to Open Science (TOPS), is proud to announce the 2023 NASA International Space Apps Challenge theme: “Explore Open Science Together.” This year’s theme celebrates the benefits and successes created through the equitable and open sharing of knowledge and data. Registration is open through Oct 8.
Photo of Col. Jason Fettig leading “The President’s Own” Marine Band in a performance inside the acoustic test chamber at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., on May 3.

PACE Off: NASA Goddard Acoustics Chamber and U.S. Marine Band Turn Up the Volume

06.30.2023
With a light flick of the conductor’s baton and a unified breath from each member, the band started playing the two deep and ominous notes easily recognized as the theme of “Jaws.” The sounds echoed off the walls of the acoustics chamber at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Satellite image of large green blooms of phytoplankton swirling in the dark water around Gotland, a Swedish island in the Baltic Sea.

NASA Wants to Identify Phytoplankton Species from Space. Here’s Why.

06.22.2023
They’re small, but they’re mighty. From producing oxygen we breathe to soaking up carbon we emit to feeding fish we eat, tiny phytoplankton are a crucial part of ocean ecosystems and essential to life as we know it on Earth. To give us a new view of these extraordinary aquatic organisms, NASA is launching a satellite in early 2024.
Landsat 9 satellite image of a phytoplankton bloom north of the East Frisian Islands in Lower Saxony, Germany

Noctiluca in the North Sea?

06.20.2023
These swirling tendrils of phytoplankton might be Noctiluca scintillans—a type of marine dinoflagellate known to inhabit this area.
Satellite image of phytoplankton blooms in the Gulf of Alaska

NCCS-Enabled Data Assimilation Probes Impact of Pacific Ocean Heatwaves on Phytoplankton Populations

06.16.2023
In a first-of-its-kind study, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center scientists used the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) Discover supercomputer to combine ocean data and modeling to assess how recent heatwave events affected phytoplankton populations in the open Pacific Ocean.
Global map of coastal phytoplankton bloom change (2003-2020)

Coastal Phytoplankton on the Rise

05.30.2023
Blooms of the plant-like organisms near coastal areas have become more frequent in the 21st century.
Maestro Piotr Gajewski conducts the National Philharmonic in the world premier performance of Henry Dehlinger’s “Cosmic Cycles,” Thursday, May 11, 2023, at Capital One Hall in Tysons, Va. “Cosmic Cycles: A Space Symphony” is a collaboration between composer Henry Dehlinger, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, and the National Philharmonic that features a fusion of music and video in seven multimedia works on the Sun, Earth, Moon, Planets, and Cosmos. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA Goddard, National Philharmonic Explore Cosmos Through Imagery, Music Collaboration

05.15.2023
Awe-inspiring NASA visuals combined with the might of a live symphonic orchestra last week in “Cosmic Cycles,” a multimedia collaboration among the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, the National Philharmonic, and composer Henry Dehlinger.
Close up of satellite image of phytoplankton bloom waters off the Mid-Atlantic coast of the United States

Bloomin’ Atlantic

04.28.2023
Abundant phytoplankton swirled in the waters off the U.S. Mid-Atlantic coast in spring 2023.
Photo of Vice President Harris and South Korea President Yoon shaking hands at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

VP Harris, South Korea President Yoon Visit NASA Goddard

04.26.2023
Vice President Kamala Harris and Republic of Korea (ROK) President Yoon Suk Yeol saw firsthand how NASA studies climate change during a visit to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, this afternoon.
Photo of VP Harris at GSFC in 2021

VP Harris, South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol to Visit NASA Goddard

04.24.2023
Vice President Kamala Harris and Republic of Korea (ROK) President Yoon Suk Yeol will visit NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, on Tuesday, April 25, to see firsthand the agency’s climate change work. NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy and Goddard Center Director Makenzie Lystrup will join them on tour.
Image of part of Earth from space

NASA Celebrates Earth Day with Earth Science in Action

04.12.2023
This Earth Day, you can join us in person and online to see how our observations help us monitor the planet’s vital signs and share them with scientists and citizens around the world.
Collage of 6 NASA climate-related images

NASA Releases Agency Climate Strategy

03.29.2023
NASA has been working to better understand our home planet from the unique vantage point of space since the first TIROS satellites launched in the 1960s. Today, with more than two dozen Earth-observing satellites and instruments, it’s clearer than ever that our planet is an interconnected system.
Visualization showing water features on New York’s Long Island – shown as bright pink splotches. Purple, yellow, green, and dark blue shades represent different land elevations, while the surrounding ocean is a lighter blue. The data was collected on Jan. 21, 2023, by SWOT’s KaRIn instrument.

Joint NASA, CNES Water-Tracking Satellite Reveals First Stunning Views

03.24.2023
The international Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission – led by NASA and the French space agency Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES) – has sent back some of its first glimpses of water on the planet’s surface, showing ocean currents like the Gulf Stream in unprecedented detail.
Cover of Spinoff 2023

NASA Spinoffs Bolster Climate Resilience, Improve Medical Care, More

01.31.2023
The latest edition of NASA’s Spinoff publication features dozens of new commercialized technologies that use the agency’s technology, research, and/or expertise to benefit people around the globe. It also includes a section highlighting technologies of tomorrow.
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John Moisan Studies the Ocean Through the 'Eyes' of AI

01.17.2023
Dr. John Moisan uses computer modeling and artificial intelligence to understand the ecology of Earth’s oceans and the organisms that live there.
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 SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching with SWOT spacecraft onboard

SWOT Launches on Mission to Study Earth's Water

12.16.2022
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches with the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) spacecraft onboard, Friday, Dec. 16, 2022, from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

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