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EMIT (Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation) Gets Installed on International Space Station
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This time-lapse video shows the Candarm2 robotic arm of the International Space Station maneuvering NASA’s EMIT mission onto the exterior of the station. Extraction from the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft began around 5:15 ...
Listening to the Amazon: Tracking Deforestation Through Sound
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From space, parts of the Amazon rainforest that have previously been logged or burned may look lush and green, like a place buzzing with activity and full of sounds. But inside the rainforest, the animal life may tell...
Earth’s Iconic Waves, Observed by Landsat
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The broad perspective from satellites shows the landscapes and seascapes surrounding some of the world's tallest, longest, fastest, and heaviest waves.
A New Era of Earth Science (NASA Trailer)
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For more than 50 years, NASA has been collecting and providing data about Earth’s land, water, ice and atmosphere. Now, a new era of Earth Science has begun. NASA will launch a fleet of state-of-the-art satellites for...
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.
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: Inhambane Bay
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In this week’s edition of the Earth from Space program, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Inhambane Bay, in southeast Mozambique.
Earth from Space: Nushagak Bay, Alaska
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In this week’s edition of the Earth from Space program, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the complex and diverse landscape that surrounds Nushagak Bay in Alaska. Credit: ESA - European Space Agency
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...
Earth from Space: The Moraines of Malaspina
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In this week’s edition of the Earth from Space program, we take a look at the remarkable moraine patterns of Malaspina Glacier – the largest piedmont glacier in the world – through the eyes of Copernicus Sentinel-...
