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NASA Follows Changing Freshwater from Space
When we look into the vastness of space, our home planet stands out in many ways. One of the most crucial is the presence of abundant, accessible freshwater -- as a liquid, solid and gas. Water helps make our planet habitable. The first...
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LIVE: NASA Flying Parallel Science Campaigns at Both Poles
For the first time in its seven years of flights, NASA's Operation IceBridge, an airborne survey of changes in Earth’s polar ice, is conducting overlapping campaigns in Antarctica and the Arctic. Joining us are: Nathan Kurtz, IceBridge...
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ATom Postcard - Azore Islands to Kangerlussuaq
Atmospheric scientists Bernadett Weinzierl of the University of Vienna, Paul Newman of Goddard Space Flight Center, and Róisín Commane of Harvard University sent back a video postcard from the last three legs of the Atmospheric...
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Interconnected: The Science of NAAMES
Most people wouldn’t expect microscopic life forms in the ocean to have much to do with Earth’s atmosphere. It turns out that their influence is profound, which is why an extraordinary team of scientists has taken to the sea and the air...
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How a NASA Science Flight is No Ordinary Journey
A group of scientists and pilots conducted a series of science flights over Western Colorado for a new five-year NASA-led airborne mission called SnowEx. SnowEx is exploring better ways to measuring how much water is stored in...
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NASA | Arctic Sea Ice Live Shot 2014
Dr. Tom Wagner talks about Arctic sea ice and the ARISE mission in this canned liveshot interview.
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Dinosaur Age Meets the Space Age at NASA Goddard
In 2012, local dinosaur track expert Ray Stanford discovered a nodosaur track from the Cretaceous era on the campus of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt, Maryland. After the slab on which Stanford found the track was...
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Plants Are Struggling to Keep Up with Rising Carbon Dioxide Concentrations
Plants play a key role in mitigating climate change. The more carbon dioxide they absorb during photosynthesis, the less carbon dioxide remains trapped in the atmosphere where it can cause temperatures to rise. But scientists have...
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Our Dynamic Earth: Rebound and Subsidence
It’s not only water processes that play a role in global sea level rise – ground movements can play a significant role as well. On a continental scale, Earth’s crust is still recovering from the last ice age. Around 20,000 years ago,...
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NASA's CAMP2Ex Heads to the Philippines for Monsoon Season
NASA, the Naval Research Laboratory and the Manila Observatory are working together in the Philippines to study how tiny particles in the atmosphere affect cloud formation. Music credit: "After the Sun" from Killer Tracks Credit: NASA's...
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NASA | On Board NPP: The Five Instruments
The NPP satellite has 5 instruments on board: VIIRS, CERES, CrIS, ATMS, and OMPS. Each one will deliver a specific set of data helping weather prediction and climate studies. This video is a quick overview of each instrument and its...
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Field Study Sheds New Light on Melt Zone
Five years after a NASA-funded field study returned to to set up camp once again in the melt zone of the Greenland Ice Sheet, a new study adds to the rich findings from this innovative project. We look back on this bold undertaking,...
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NASA's Operation IceBridge Completes 11 Years of Polar Surveys
For 11 years from 2009 to 2019, the planes of NASA’s Operation IceBridge flew above the Arctic, Antarctic and Alaska, gathering data on the height, depth, thickness, flow and change of sea ice, glaciers and ice sheets. As the team and...
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NASA | Beautiful Earth Program at the Goddard Visitor Center
About 140 students, parents, and teachers came to the Goddard Space Flight Center Visitor Center in June, 2014 for the Beautiful Earth educational program. The Beautiful Earth program immersed students in a multimedia performance with...
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Guiding Farmers With NASA Satellites
Agriculture in Pakistan is dependent on irrigation from the Indus River. But over the years, these freshwater resources have become scarce. Today, it is one of the world’s most depleted basins. To tackle this, farmers are attempting to...
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Landsat 9 At Work
Landsat 9, which NASA is launching in September 2021, will collect the highest quality data ever recorded by a Landsat satellite, while still ensuring that these new measurements can be compared to those taken by previous generations of...
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NASA | Goddard In The Galaxy
This video highlights the many ways NASA Goddard Space Flight Center explores the universe. So crank up your speakers and let the music be your guide! "My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up)" Performed by Fall Out Boy...
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A Look Back: How Heat Shaped 2020
By most accounts, 2020 has been a rough year for the planet. It was the warmest year on record, just barely exceeding the record set in 2016 by less than a tenth of a degree according to NASA’s analysis. Massive wildfires scorched...
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Rising Waters: A Warmer World
Earth’s global sea levels are rising – and are doing so at an accelerating rate. Waters in the ocean are expanding as they absorb massive amounts of heat trapped by greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere. Glaciers and ice sheets are...
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NASA Studies an Unusual Arctic Warming Event
Winter temperatures are soaring in the Arctic for the fourth winter in a row. The heat, accompanied by moist air, is entering the Arctic not only through the sector of the North Atlantic Ocean that lies between Greenland and Europe, as...
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NASA Satellite Captures 3-D View of Hurricane Matthew
NASA’s Precipitation Measurement Missions' GPM core satellite captured Hurricane Matthew in 3-D as it made landfall on Haiti and as it traveled up to the Florida coast. The Global Precipitation Measurement Mission or GPM flew directly...
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NASA | Landsat: Making a Difference, One User At A Time
The Landsat Data Continuity Mission will continue and improve upon the 40-year-old Landsat program. This video examines two uses of Landsat data to monitor agriculture. Both wineries and timber companies rely on Landsat data to check...
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NASA | Brazil’s Extreme Drought Seen From Space
Empty water reservoirs, severe water rationing, and electrical blackouts are the new status quo in major cities across southeastern Brazil where the worst drought in 35 years has desiccated the region. A new NASA study estimates that the...
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Landsat 9 Data Available!
The data from Landsat 9 is available for anyone to download. With both Landsat 9 and Landsat 8 in orbit, there will be high-quality, medium-resolution images of Earth’s landscapes and coastal regions every eight days. Landsat 9 was...