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How NASA Is Testing AI to Make Earth-Observing Satellites Smarter
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A technology called Dynamic Targeting could enable spacecraft to decide, autonomously and within seconds, where to best make science observations from orbit. In a recent test, NASA showed how artificial intelligence-based technology could help orbiting spacecraft provide more targeted and…

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GLOBE-Trotting Science Lands in Chesapeake with NASA eClips
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On June 16-17, 2025, 50 students at Camp Young in Chesapeake, Virginia traded their usual summer routines for microscopes. The NASA eClips team from the National Institute of Aerospace Center for Integrative STEM Education (NIA-CISE) taught two engaging lessons focused…

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5 Things to Know About Powerful New U.S.-India Satellite, NISAR
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Lee esta historia en español aquí. Data from NISAR will map changes to Earth’s surface, helping improve crop management, natural hazard monitoring, and tracking of sea ice and glaciers. A new U.S.-India satellite called NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) will provide…

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Linking Satellite Data and Community Knowledge to Advance Alaskan Snow Science
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Seasonal snow plays a significant role in global water and energy cycles, and billions of people worldwide rely on snowmelt for water resources needs, including water supply, hydropower, agriculture, and more. Monitoring snow water equivalent (SWE) is critical for supporting…

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Meet Mineral Mappers Flying NASA Tech Out West
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NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey have been mapping the planets since Apollo. One team is searching closer to home for minerals critical to national security and the economy. If not for the Joshua trees, the tan hills of Cuprite,…

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Polar Tourists Give Positive Reviews to NASA Citizen Science in Antarctica
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Citizen science projects result in an overwhelmingly positive impact on the polar tourism experience. That’s according to a new paper analyzing participant experiences in the first two years of FjordPhyto, a NASA Citizen Science project..   The FjordPhyto citizen science project…

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NASA Mission Monitoring Air Quality from Space Extended 
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Since launching in 2023, NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution mission, or TEMPO, has been measuring the quality of the air we breathe from 22,000 miles above the ground. June 19 marked the successful completion of TEMPO’s 20-month-long initial prime…

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By Air and by Sea: Validating NASA’s PACE Ocean Color Instrument
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In autumn 2024, California’s Monterey Bay experienced an outsized phytoplankton bloom that attracted fish, dolphins, whales, seabirds, and – for a few weeks in October – scientists. A team from NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, with partners at…

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NASA Tech to Use Moonlight to Enhance Measurements from Space
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Editor’s note: NASA’s Arcstone lunar calibration instrument lifted off aboard the Transporter-14 rideshare mission with SpaceX via launch integrator Maverick Space Systems from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on June 23, 2025 at 2:25 p.m. PT. NASA will soon launch a one-of-a-kind instrument, called Arcstone, to…

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From Space to Soil: How NASA Sees Forests
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NASA uses satellite lidar technology to study Earth’s forests, key carbon sinks.

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