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International SWOT Earth Science Mission Media Reel
B-roll, animations, and soundbites for media and public use. The U.S.-European Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission (SWOT) will observe nearly all water on Earth’s surface. The SUV-size sat...
Earth Day Media Briefing: NASA Unveils New Elements of Climate Research
Earth Day Media Briefing NASA Unveils New Elements of Climate Research In anticipation of Earth Day, NASA invited media to a briefing at the agency’s headquarters on Friday, April 19. The event ...
SHIFT Campaign Helps NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Research Partners Study Diverse Ecosystems
B-roll for media and public use. Above Santa Barbara County, scientists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are collecting data to better understand land and aquatic ecosystems. The flights are...
PREFIRE: A Mission to Better Understand Earth’s Polar Regions (Mission Overview)
NASA’s PREFIRE mission aims to improve global climate change predictions by expanding our understanding of heat loss at the polar regions. The Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment ...
The Arctic and the Antarctic Respond in Opposite Ways
The Arctic and the Antarctic are regions that have a lot of ice and acts as air conditioners for the Earth system. This year, Antarctic sea ice reached a record maximum extent while the Arctic reac...
Mission Makers: The Team Behind the SWOT Water-Tracking Mission (Teaser Trailer)
Meet some of the scientists and engineers contributing to a new Earth science mission, led by NASA and the French space agency Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES). The Surface Water and Oc...
Sea Ice 2008
Arctic sea ice declined this summer to its second smallest extent in the satellite era, suggesting that the record set in 2007 may not have been an anomaly. If recent trends in the melt rate contin...
EPIC Observations Pouring In: NASA at the 2015 AGU Fall Meeting
Less than a year after its launch on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), NASA’s onboard camera is taking images of the entire sunlit side of Earth every two hours. From its vantage poin...
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NASA Science Live: Rising Seas [Episode 24]
Sea levels across the globe are rising as a result of a changing climate — and the rate at which they are rising is accelerating. Watch NASA Science Live to meet NASA researchers studying these c...
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NASA Science Live: Climate Edition - Rising Heat [Episode 56]
From soaring temperatures affecting agriculture and the ocean to the escalating frequency and intensity of heat waves, the challenges posed by rising temperatures across our planet’s interconnect...
2015-2016 El Niño Triggered Disease Outbreaks Across the Globe
El Niño is an irregularly recurring climate pattern characterized by warmer than usual ocean temperatures in the equatorial Pacific, which creates a ripple effect of anticipated weather changes in...
SWOT: Impacting Communities for a Better Future
A new Earth science mission, led by NASA and the French space agency Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES), will help communities plan for a better future by surveying the planet’s salt an...
Record-Breaking Climate Trends 2016 – Rising Temperatures and Shrinking Sea Ice
Two key climate change indicators have broken numerous records through the first half of 2016, according to NASA analyses of ground-based observations and satellite data. Each of the first six mont...
A New Forecast Model Predicts Arctic Sea Ice Extent
Arctic sea ice extent ebbs and flows with the seasons. During the summer months, the ice melts and the edge recedes northward, usually reaching its annual minimum sometime in September. The ice ex...
Exploring Oceans From Space
The joint U.S.-European Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich is the next in a line of Earth-observing satellites that will collect the most accurate data yet on sea level and how it changes over time. With ...
Mission Makers: Cedric David, Scientist on the SWOT Water-Tracking Mission
Cedric David is part of the science team behind the international Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite, a mission led by NASA and the French space agency Centre National d’Études ...
Earth Water Budget Animation
Earth’s 370 quintillion gallons of water can be found all over the planet in lakes, rivers, glaciers, oceans, and groundwater. However, only a tiny fraction of this water is usable by humans. Und...
Mission Makers: Christine Gebara, Engineer on the SWOT Water-Tracking Mission
Christine Gebara is part of the team building the international Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite, a mission led by NASA and the French space agency Centre National d’Études Sp...
International SWOT Mission Launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base (Launch Recap)
JPL-20221216-SWOTf-0001-Launch Recap
Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Satellite Family Tree
The joint U.S.-European Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich is the next in a line of Earth-observing satellites that will collect the most accurate data yet on sea level and how it changes over time. It is...
PACE Transport to SLC-40
PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) Transport to SLC-40.
PACE Encapsulation
PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) Encapsulation
PACE Media Day
PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Clouds, and Ocean Ecosytem) Media Day
For 15 Years, GRACE Tracked Freshwater Movements Around the World
NASA scientists used GRACE data to identify regional trends of freshwater movement, and combined that information with data from other satellites, climate models and precipitation measurements to d...
Mission Makers: Tahani Amer, NASA Program Executive for the SWOT Water-Tracking Mission
Tahani Amer oversees several Earth science missions for NASA, including the international Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite, a mission led by NASA and the French space agency Cent...
PACE Spacecraft Uncrating
Astrotech, Titusville FL
PACE Spacecraft Arrival
PACE, Plankton Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem Arrival and Unpacking
PACE Processing
Technicians work to process the NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) observatory on a spacecraft dolly in a high bay at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the agency...
KSC-05-S-00133
Tiffany Nail: You're about to get an inside look at the NOAA-N mission and find out what exciting things this mission will do for us. Our guests today include some of the major players responsible ...
A Major Milestone for the James Webb Space Telescope on This Week @NASA – January 14, 2022
A major milestone for the James Webb Space Telescope, what astronomers could learn from a “mini” monster black hole, and the latest assessment of our planet’s global surface temperature … a...