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NASA Tracks the Future of Asia's Glaciers
Asia’s high mountains are a crucial freshwater source to one-seventh of the world’s population. Snow and glaciers in these mountains contain the largest volume of freshwater outside of Earth's ...
GOLD Resources: Elsayed Talaat Heliophysics Chief Scientist
The Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, or GOLD, mission is designed to explore the nearest reaches of space. Capturing never-before-seen images of Earth’s upper atmosphere, GOLD expl...
GOLD Resources: ISS Airglow
The Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, or GOLD, mission is designed to explore the nearest reaches of space. Capturing never-before-seen images of Earth’s upper atmosphere, GOLD expl...
GOLD Resources: Sarah Jones Mission Scientist
The Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, or GOLD, mission is designed to explore the nearest reaches of space. Capturing never-before-seen images of Earth’s upper atmosphere, GOLD expl...
GOLD Resources: Katelynn Greer Research Scientist
The Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, or GOLD, mission is designed to explore the nearest reaches of space. Capturing never-before-seen images of Earth’s upper atmosphere, GOLD expl...
Monitoring Changes in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Landsat is a critical and invaluable tool for characterizing the landscape and mapping it over time. Landsat data provides a baseline of observations for science about how human activities on the l...
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BRUCE BUCKINGHAM: From 22,000 miles up, GOES satellites have a sky-high view of the weather below. Here is a unique look at how GOES sees the Earth and tracks storms as they flow across the plane...
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An important element of our POES missions is how they contribute to improving worldwide search and rescue operations. This video tells us more. Narrator: Saving lives is one of the unique and impo...
Predicting Malaria Outbreaks with NASA Satellites
In the Amazon Rainforest, few animals are as dangerous to humans as mosquitos that transmit malaria. The tropical disease can bring on severe fever, headaches and chills and is particularly severe ...
SPHEREx and PUNCH Science Overview News Conference
The SPHEREx space telescope will survey the sky in optical and infrared light, gathering data on more than 450 million galaxies, and 100 million stars in our own galaxy. PUNCH will use four suitcas...
MMS First Results
Like sending sensors up into a hurricane, NASA has flown four spacecraft through an invisible maelstrom in space, called magnetic reconnection. Magnetic reconnection is one of the prime drivers of ...
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The latest edition of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite series is scheduled for a spring liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station aboard a Boeing Delta IV rocket. The spac...
5th Anniversary of Landsat 8's Launch
In its five years in space, Landsat 8 has racked up an impressive line of statistics. The satellite made 26,500 orbits around Earth. It captured 1.1 million "scenes" of our home planet. Its images ...
Media Reel: Sentinel-6B
B-roll for media and public use. NASA and its U.S. and international partners have teamed up to launch a new Earth-observing satellite called Sentinel-6B that will measure sea surface height of mos...
Harmonized Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 Data: Columbus Nebraska
Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 satellites have spectral and spatial similarities that make using their data together possible. When the data are used together observations can be more timely and accurate...
Harmonized Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 Data: Everglades South
Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 satellites have spectral and spatial similarities that make using their data together possible. When the data are used together observations can be more timely and accurate...
Firefly Beauty Pass
The small satellite, with a big mission, is appropriately named "Firefly." Sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the pint-sized satellite will study the most powerful natural particle...
Harmonized Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 Data: Eastern Nebraska
Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 satellites have spectral and spatial similarities that make using their data together possible. When the data are used together observations can be more timely and accurate...
Radiation Generated in Electric Fields Over Thunderstorms
The small satellite, with a big mission, is appropriately named "Firefly." Sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the pint-sized satellite will study the most powerful natural particle...
Firefly in Orbit
The small satellite, with a big mission, is appropriately named "Firefly." Sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the pint-sized satellite will study the most powerful natural particle...
Firefly Sees Electrons Populate the Radiation Belts
The small satellite, with a big mission, is appropriately named "Firefly." Sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the pint-sized satellite will study the most powerful natural particle...
Harmonized Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 Data: Everglades
Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 satellites have spectral and spatial similarities that make using their data together possible. When the data are used together observations can be more timely and accurate...
Firefly Deployment
The small satellite, with a big mission, is appropriately named "Firefly." Sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the pint-sized satellite will study the most powerful natural particle...
Harmonized Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 Data: Cunningham Kansas
Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 satellites have spectral and spatial similarities that make using their data together possible. When the data are used together observations can be more timely and accurate...
Harmonized Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 Data: Chesapeake Bay
Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 satellites have spectral and spatial similarities that make using their data together possible. When the data are used together observations can be more timely and accurate...
Harmonized Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 Data: DELMARVA
Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 satellites have spectral and spatial similarities that make using their data together possible. When the data are used together observations can be more timely and accurate...
Why NASA Is Exploring The Edge Of Our Planet: Airglow
The Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, or GOLD, instrument launches aboard a commercial communications satellite in January 2018 to inspect the dynamic intermingling of space and Earth...
Why NASA Is Exploring The Edge Of Our Planet: Overview
The Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, or GOLD, instrument launches aboard a commercial communications satellite in January 2018 to inspect the dynamic intermingling of space and Earth...
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Hollywood has invaded the Kennedy Space Center… but don't expect to find Tom Cruise or Steven Spielberg running around the set. Director Ashutosh Gowariker and his crew shot on location last wee...
TIRS - The Thermal Infrared Sensor on LDCM Overview
The Thermal InfraRed Sensor (TIRS) is one of the instruments on the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) satellite. It will continue the archive of thermal imaging and support emerging applicatio...