Feature Articles
Seeing “Through the Eyes of NASA” at the 2023 AGU Annual Meeting
Introduction As one navigates the global constellation of scientific conferences offered each year, the annual Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) is the guiding star. The meeting attracts participants from an ensemble of academic disciplines and a sizeable…
NASA’s Earth Science Technology Office Celebrates 25 Years
Introduction Many Earth science missions, both airborne and on orbit, can trace their origins to the early technology developments that produced the groundbreaking instruments, instrument components (the parts or subsystems that make up an instrument), and information systems that enabled…
NASA Earth Science and Education Update: Introducing the Science Activation Program
Introduction For many years, The Earth Observer ran a regular NASA Earth Science Education and Public Outreach Update column, the last of which appeared in the May–June 2017 issue of The Earth Observer. At that time, NASA Science Education communications…
SHADOZ Ozonesonde Network Celebrates 25 Years and 10,000 Profiles
Introduction NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center’s (GSFC) Southern Hemisphere Additional OZonesondes (SHADOZ) network, which coordinates balloon-borne ozonesonde launches from 14 tropical sites through global partnerships (see Figure 1 and Table, below), has reached two milestones: 25 years of operation and…