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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 ...
Watch the Latest Water Satellite Unfold Itself in Space
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Two cameras aboard the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite captured the large mast and antenna panels of the spacecraft’s main science instrument deploying over four days, a process that was completed ...
Meteors Encountering Earth’s Atmosphere
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This video was acquired August 10, 2016, with a high-resolution video camera onboard the International Space Station (ISS). Within the span of about 10 seconds, two meteors associated with the Perseid meteor shower streak across the sky above Pakistan. Video was provided by Tomoko Arai/Japan’s Planetary Exploration Research Center/Meteor Composition Determination (Meteor) investigation.
Achim Steiner – Eye on Earth Summit 2015
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Over 650 delegates from government, UN bodies, the non-governmental sector, private sector, academia and civil society will gather in Abu Dhabi between 6 and 8 October for the Eye on Earth Summit 2015. Learn more here: www.eoesummit.org
A Look Back: 2022’s Temperature Record
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2022 effectively tied for Earth’s 5th warmest year since 1880, and the last nine consecutive years have been the warmest nine on record. NASA looks back at how heat was expressed in different ways around the world in ...
Earth from Space: Canadian Arctic Archipelago
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The Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission takes us over part of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, in this week's edition of the Earth from Space program.
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
Human Influence on Global Droughts Goes Back 100 Years
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Human-generated greenhouse gases and atmospheric particles were affecting global drought risk as far back as the early 20th century, according to a study from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City.
Aurora from Above
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This video of the aurora borealis was captured by the Fast Auroral Imager, which is part of the e-POP instrument package carried on Canada’s Cassiope satellite.
Reshuffling Heat on a Warming Planet
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Earth's oceans could be concealing a mystery about climate change. Researchers have recently found evidence of hidden heat hundreds of meters below the ocean's surface.
