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NASA Satellites Keep Watch on U.S. Food Supply
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The Cropland Data layer uses Landsat and similar sensors to identify what crop is growing where in the country.
48 Years of Alaska’s Glaciers
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New time-lapse videos of Earth’s glaciers and ice sheets as seen from space–spanning nearly 50 years–are providing scientists with new insights into how the planet’s frozen regions are changing.
OPS-SAT: ESA’s Flying Lab, Open to All
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What would you do with a powerful computer based in space? At just 30 centimeters in height, OPS-SAT is a tiny CubeSat designed to serve as a large-scale software laboratory in orbit–containing one of the most powerfu...
Earth from Space: Tromsø
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The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Tromsø, the largest city in northern Norway, in this week's edition of the Earth from Space program.
2019 Was the Second-Hottest Year on Record
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Earth's global surface temperatures in 2019 ranked second-warmest since 1880, according to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
NASA 2020: Are You Ready?
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Launching Americans from U.S. soil, sending a new rover to Mars and continuing to prepare for human missions to the Moon are just a few of the things NASA has planned for 2020.
Earth from Space: Flevoland
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In this week's edition of the Earth from Space program, the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission takes us over part of the Dutch province of Flevoland–the newest province in the Netherlands and one of the largest land reclamation projects in the world.
Landsat: Farming Data From Space
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NASA's fleet of satellites has been watching over Earth for more than half a century, collecting valuable data about the crops that make up our food supply and the water it takes to grow them. This wealth of information allows scientists to monitor farmland—tracking the overall food supply, where specific crops are grown, and how much water it takes to grow them with data from the Landsat satellites and others
Earth from Space: Houston
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In this week's edition of the Earth from Space program, the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission takes us over Houston, the most populous city in Texas and the fourth largest in the United States.
Earth from Space: Andros, Bahamas
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In this week's edition of the Earth from Space program, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Andros, the largest island of the Bahamas.
