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With the end of summer approaching in the Northern Hemisphere, the extent of sea ice in the Arctic shrank to…
Sea ice is frozen seawater that floats in the ocean. This photo, taken from NASA’s Gulfstream V Research Aircraft on July…
Test your knowledge of the many varieties of frozen water and how these icy realms are connected to climate change.
How much do you know about the frozen poles of our home planet?
As Greenland’s ice retreats, it’s fueling tiny ocean organisms. To test why, scientists turned to a computer model out of…
Citizen science projects result in an overwhelmingly positive impact on the polar tourism experience. That’s according to a new paper…
NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) are targeting June 2025 for launch of the NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture…
Life all over the planet—even far from the coasts—depends on the oceans. A pair of NASA satellites, PACE and SWOT,…
There’s one planet NASA studies more than any other: Earth. With our unique vantage point from space, NASA collects information…
