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Antarctic Ice Shelf Demise
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New research, based largely on information from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 and ESA’s CryoSat satellite missions, has revealed alarming findings about the state of Antarctica's ice shelves: 40% of these floating shelves...
A Month at Sea: Scientists Prepare to Set Sail for NASA’s S-MODE Mission
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In early October, the research vessel Bold Horizon set sail from Newport, Oregon, and joined a small fleet of planes, drones, and other high-tech craft chasing the ocean’s shapeshifting physics. NASA’s Sub-Mesoscale O...
Monitoring Methane From Space
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Methane is the second-most-important greenhouse gas contributor to climate change after carbon dioxide. Curbing methane emissions could deliver immediate and long-lasting benefits for the climate, seeing as the ga...
Earth from Space: Lake Trasimeno
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In this week's edition of the Earth from Space program, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Lake Trasimeno, the fourth largest lake in Italy.
Meteosat Third Generation: Painting the Full Picture
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In a significant leap forward for meteorology, the preliminary data obtained by Meteosat Third Generation’s two instruments, the Flexible Combined Imager (FCI) and the Lightning Imager (LI), were successfully combined...
The Geocenter of the Earth Is Changing (And Why That Matters)
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At the foundation of virtually all airborne, space-based and ground-based Earth observations is the TRF, or Terrestrial Reference Frame.
Ozone Hole as Monitored by the German Aerospace Center
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This animation uses Sentinel-5P total ozone measurements and shows the evolution of the ozone hole over the South Pole from Sept. 1-29, 2023. The Tropomi total ozone measurements are processed within the Sentinel-5...
Tracking Carbon from Wildfires to Ocean Blooms
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Between September 2019 and March 2020, wildfires killed billions of animals and decimated more than 200 thousand square kilometers of Australian forest, an area larger than Nebraska. Later, thousands of kilometers awa...
New Supercomputer Simulation Sheds Light on Moon’s Origin
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A new NASA and Durham University simulation puts forth a different theory of the Moon’s origin—the Moon may have formed in a matter of hours, when material from the Earth and a Mars sized-body were launched directly i...
Earth from Space: Fairbanks, Alaska
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The Copernicus Sentinel-2 takes us over the city of Fairbanks in Alaska and its surroundings, in this edition of the Earth from Space program.
