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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...
NASA Maps Carbon of 10 Billion Individual Trees
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Using commercial, high-resolution satellite images and artificial intelligence, a team of NASA-funded scientists mapped almost 10 billion individual trees in Africa’s drylands in order to assess the amount of carbon s...
The Ozone Layer: A Hole New World
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In the 1980s, scientists discovered a gaping hole in Earth's ozone layer, caused by humanmade chemicals. But thanks to the historical Montreal Protocol, the world came together to take bold action to save our planet. ...
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 ...
Iceberg Larger than London Breaks off Brunt
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An iceberg around the size of Greater London broke off Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf due to a natural process called ‘calving.’ The iceberg, measuring 1550 square kilometers, detached from the 150-meter-thick ice shelf...
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: 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
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.
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: 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.
