History of Earth Science
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In the 1960s, NASA was pioneering a new era of human spaceflight—and astronaut photography—that would change Earth observation forever.
Samuel Pierpont Langley conducted the first successful flight of an unpiloted, engine-driven, heavier-than-air craft from a houseboat near Chopawamsic Island…
Well-wishers in Hawaii welcomed the astronauts on July 26, 1969, after they landed on the Moon, splashed down in the…
After a heavy snowfall in April, muddy rivers and streams are turning Lake Erie brown.
EO Kids is exploring the history of viewing Earth from space – from Explorer 1 to our modern constellation of…
Scheduled to fly for a year, designed to last a year and a half, EO-1 celebrated its tenth anniversary on…
Dr. Joanne Simpson (1923–2010) pores over reams of images of tropical clouds filmed during flights across the tropical Pacific. The…
Nearly a decade ago, ecologist Steve Running described how NASA's Earth Observing System missions were going to help us answer…
Attempts of Renaissance astronomers to explain the puzzling path of planets across the night sky led to modern science's understanding…
