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How Does NASA Model Atmospheric Patterns?
Better and faster computers have improved how we model and study Earth. More information is the other piece of the puzzle improving how we model and forecast our planet’s atmosphere. Since 1980, the 10th anniversary of Earth Day, the...
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GLOBE Observer's Basic Mosquito Habitat Mapper: Getting Started
In many parts of the world, mosquitoes are more than just a summertime nuisance. Their ability to carry and spread disease to humans causes millions of deaths every year, according to the World Health Organization. Using the GLOBE...
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Greenland's Extreme Melt, 1 Year Later
Last spring, NASA’s Operation IceBridge flew over one of Greenland’s earliest melt seasons on record. This year, the melt is progressing more typically, despite warm temperatures in the Arctic. Brooke Medley reflects on the differences...
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Landsat Tracks Mount St. Helens Recovery
The May 18, 1980, eruption of Mount St. Helens came after two months of small earthquakes. During the eruption, an avalanche of debris and mud spread for miles from the former summit, and a blast of steam and hot ash covered an area of...
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Arctic Sea Ice Is the Thinnest and Youngest It's Been in 60 Years
Working from a combination of satellite records and declassified submarine sonar data, NASA scientists have constructed a 60-year record of Arctic sea ice thickness. Right now, Arctic sea ice is the youngest and thinnest its been since...
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2021 Arctic Sea Ice Maximum Extent Ranks 7th-Lowest on Record
On March 21, 2021, Arctic sea ice reached its maximum extent for winter 2020-2021, tying with 2007 for the seventh-lowest maximum on record. Music: "Amazing Discoveries" from Universal Production Music Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space...
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Rossby Waves on the Sun Could Aid in Space Weather Prediction
To predict weather on a planet, we look at Rossby waves, large movement patterns in the atmosphere, like the jet stream. Just as on Earth, the conditions on the sun are constantly changing. This is why scientists were excited to discover...
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Unusual Winds Drive a Small 2019 Ozone Hole
Every year, NASA and NOAA track the hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica as it grows to its annual winter maximum. This year, the hole was smaller than expected, due to an unusual weather pattern in the stratosphere. Music credit:...
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NASA Finds Local Lockdowns Brought Global Ozone Reductions
As the coronavirus pandemic slowed global commerce to a crawl in early 2020, emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) – which create ozone, a danger to human health and to climate – decreased 15% globally with local reductions as high as 50%,...
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STEMExplore: Life as a Geologist
This video features a geology professor from the University of Texas who discusses his exciting career as a geologist. He talks about his travels around the world and the interesting problems he solves in his lab. He also shares his...
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2016 Antarctic Ozone Hole Meets Scientist Expectations
The hole in Earth’s ozone layer that forms over Antarctica each September grew to about 8.9 million square miles in 2016 before starting to recover, according to scientists from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
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Tsunami Study Challenges Long-held Formation Theory
A new NASA study is challenging a long-held theory on how tsunamis form and offering a new method for forecasting the powerful waves. Most tsunamis result from a massive shifting of the seafloor -- usually from the subduction, or...
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Satellites See Hurricanes Douglas, Hanna
The weekend of July 25-26, hurricanes swirled in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Satellites from NASA and NOAA tracked as Hurricanes Douglas and Hanna formed, grew, and traveled across the oceans. Music: "Images Grow" by Andrew...
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NASA Releases a Tiny Satellite to Study Ice Clouds
IceCube is a CubeSat, a very small satellite designed to test a new technology for eventual use on larger satellites. In this case, scientists are experimenting with using radiometer to study ice clouds from space. Credit: NASA's Goddard...
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NASA | NPP: Final Steps to Countdown
NPP is nearly ready to be launched! This video describes the final steps for this Earth-observing climate and weather satellite before it launches, currently scheduled for the morning of Oct. 28, 2011.
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NASA | Earth from Orbit 2014
Every day of every year, NASA satellites provide useful data about our home planet, and along the way, some beautiful images as well. This video includes satellite images of Earth in 2014 from NASA and its partners as well as photos and...
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NASA | IceBridge Mission Over the Antarctic Peninsula
The IceBridge science team and DC-8 crew flew a mission over the Antarctic Peninsula on Saturday, November 13th. This video provides a snapshot of the flight from the field and describes the challenges faced with weather and terrain....
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Landsat 9, part 3: More Than Just A Pretty Picture
It’s not enough just to record data with a satellite; you also need to analyze it here on Earth. Episode 3 shows the efforts of the USGS to downlink and archive the five decades of Landsat data we’ve collected, as well as make it...
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GLOBE Observer Getting Started: Mosquito Habitat Mapper - Sample Collection
In many parts of the world, mosquitoes are more than just a summertime nuisance. Their ability to carry and spread disease to humans causes millions of deaths every year. (World Health Organization). Using the GLOBE Observer Mosquito...
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Cinematic Science Helps Researchers Explore Data From NASA’s CAMP2Ex Field Campaign
Bringing together data from numerous sensor nodes and visualizing it is a critical part of the scientific process. But creating accessible visualizations is not easy, especially when those sensor nodes communicate complex Earth-science...
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NASA Captures Hurricane Harvey's Rainfall
The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory captured these images of Hurricane Harvey at 11:45 UTC and 21:25 UTC on the 27th of August nearly two days after the storm made landfall as it was meandering slowly southeast at...
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Arctic Greening Driven By Warmer Temperatures
As Arctic summers warm, Earth’s northern landscapes are changing. Using Landsat satellite data to track global tundra ecosystems over decades, a new study found the region has become greener, as warmer air and soil temperatures lead to...
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Satellites See Saharan Dust from Space
From space, we can see a swirling brown mass making its way across the Atlantic – dust from the Sahara Desert – the largest hot desert in the world. It’s a normal phenomenon. Every year, winds carry millions of tons of dust from North...
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NASA’s Vantage Point Over Earth
No planet is better studied than the one we actually live on. NASA's fleet of Earth observing spacecraft, supported by aircraft, ships and ground observations, measure aspects of the environment that touch the lives of every person...