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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.
Artist image of SWOT above Earth's surface

Latest International Water Satellite Packs an Engineering Punch

12.12.2022
Set for a Thursday, Dec. 15 launch, the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite promises to provide an extraordinary accounting of water over much of Earth’s surface.
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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.
Landsat satellite image of a portion of the Yukon River in Alaska

Water Mission to Gauge Alaskan Rivers on Front Lines of Climate Change

12.08.2022
While Alaska straddles the Arctic Circle and is covered by vast expanses of frozen land, the state also has a lot of liquid water. In fact, Alaska holds about 40% of U.S. surface water resources.
Aqua satellite image of phytoplankton blooms off the coast of Argentina

Breathing Life into the Ocean

12.03.2022
Almost all life in the ocean depends on tiny photosynthetic organisms known as phytoplankton.
An image of a coastal marshland combines aerial and satellite views in a technique similar to hyperspectral imaging

NASA Researcher’s AI ‘Eye’ Could Help Robotic Data-Gathering

11.30.2022
Existing artificial intelligence and machine learning tech doesn’t come close to measuring up to human skill. That’s why NASA scientist John Moisan is developing an AI “eye.”
Aqua satellite image of plumes of silt and sand blowing from the Copper River Delta and over the Gulf of Alaska.

Dusty Copper River Delta

11.22.2022
Plumes from this part of Alaska happen in autumn when winds are strong, water levels are low, and snow has not yet blanketed the floodplain.
Sentinel-2 satellite image of eddie swirling along Little Bahama Bank’s carbonate platform

Carbonate Swirls Spin from the Bahamas

11.17.2022
Hurricane Nicole turned the shallow waters along the Abaco Islands into an eddy factory.
Artist image of SWOT in orbit

5 Things to Know About How SWOT Will Look at the World’s Water

11.15.2022
On Dec. 12, NASA will launch the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite into Earth orbit from The international Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission will provide high-definition data on the salt- and fresh water on Earth’s surface.
Smoke, cloud wakes, and a phytoplankton bloom formed a mosaic of natural phenomena off the coast of central Chile in this Aqua satellite natural-color image

An Oceanic and Atmospheric Potpourri

11.05.2022
Smoke, cloud wakes, and an abundance of phytoplankton off the coast of Chile punctuate this spring scene.
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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.
Sentinel-2 satellite image of the coastline near Fort Myers, FL, on September 30, 2022

Watercolor Seas in the Wake of Hurricane Ian

10.05.2022
Storm-stirred sediment produced colorful swirls along the western coast of Florida.
Landsat-9 image of coccolithophore bloom in Hood Canal

Summer Color for Hood Canal

08.29.2022
Though they were a bit tardy this year, the coccolithophores have arrived in Washington’s waters.
Suomi NPP satellite image of a phytoplankton bloom the Black Sea

Brilliant Color in the Black Sea

06.28.2022
As spring 2022 turned the page to summer, phytoplankton turned the seawater from dark to vivid.
Satellite image of the Yukon Delta

NCCS-Hosted Simulations Probe the Interactions of the Freshwater Yukon River and the Salty Arctic Ocean

06.14.2022
The NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) Discover supercomputer powered a model NASA Goddard Space Flight Center scientists developed to simulate the physical properties and transport of water in the lower Yukon River and Northern Bering Sea — water that ultimately reaches the freshest of the world’s major oceans, the Arctic Ocean.
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Hear 'Sounds of the Sea' in Ocean Scientists' Music Project

06.08.2022
This World Oceans Day enjoy a moment of zen with a symphonic tour of the ocean.
Aqua satellite image of the Gulf of Maine as seen on June 5, 2022

NASA-funded Study: Gulf of Maine’s Phytoplankton Productivity Down 65%

06.07.2022
The Gulf of Maine is growing increasingly warm and salty, due to ocean currents pushing warm water into the gulf from the Northwest Atlantic, according to a new NASA-funded study. These temperature and salinity changes have led to a substantial decrease in the productivity of phytoplankton that serve as the basis of the marine food web.
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Join NASA's Earth Day Event

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

Natural-color images acquired on March 3-8, 2022, by the HawkEye sensor aboard the SeaHawk cubesat

The Little Satellite That Could

04.18.2022
The SeaHawk satellite is both a throwback to a previous era and a glimpse of the future.
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.
SeaHawk satellite image of Strait of Dover

Churning Channel

04.05.2022
A nanosatellite gets a bird’s view of sediment and plankton near the Strait of Dover.
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NASA Invites Media to 59th Annual Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium

03.16.2022
Media are invited to meet leaders in space exploration at the 59th annual Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium, taking place on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park, from March 23 to 25. Attendees also have the option to watch the symposium online.
Landsat 8 satellite image of the Manitoba Great Lakes

Ice Age Canadian Lakes

01.21.2022
The lakes, wetlands, and glacial landscape of Manitoba were shaped by glaciers and ice sheets.

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