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2023 Was the Hottest Year on Record
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2023 was Earth’s warmest year since 1880, and the last 10 consecutive years have been the warmest 10 on record. But why does NASA, a space agency, look at Earth’s temperature? And how do we even measure global tempera...
Air Quality in Washington, D.C.
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A video production for NASA's Earth Information Center about air quality in Washington, D.C. Air pollution in DC has declined by 50% in the last two decades. NASA uses sensors aboard satellites and aircraft to obta...
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...
How NASA Sees the Air We Breathe
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NASA and NOAA, among other agencies, worked together this summer through the STAQS and AEROMMA missions to calibrate and validate NASA’s new TEMPO satellite. The satellite and missions combined aim to not only better ...
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...
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...
Arctic Sea Ice Hits Annual Minimum, Antarctic Sets New Record
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Arctic sea ice likely reached its annual minimum extent on Sept. 19, 2023, making it the sixth-lowest year in the satellite record, according to researchers at NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). M...
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...
Liftoff for Crew-7 Aboard Crew Dragon Spacecraft Endurance
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On Aug. 26, 2023, Crew-7 aboard the Crew Dragon spacecraft Endurance embarked on a journey to the International Space Station. Watch the full coverage of their launch from pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. ...
Wildfires 101: How NASA Studies Fires in a Changing World
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From forest floor to space, NASA scientists and collaborators are advancing tools and methods to predict, remotely detect, and ultimately mitigate wildfires. That process starts with understanding fire behavior, track...
