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Two young students and their mentor, an intern, identify bugs using a microscope.

GLOBE Alumna and Youth for Habitat Program Lead Named Scientist of the Month in Alaska

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As a 16-year old high school graduate, Maggie House decided to leave the military base in Germany where she lived with her family and go to college close to nature in Fairbanks, Alaska. She had lived in many countries and…

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PLACES project team members (left, Kevin Czajkowski; middle, Tracy Ostrom; right, Eliza Jacobs) collect data using a soil moisture probe as part of the 2023 Summer Institute in Tucson, AZ.

PLACES team publishes blog post on NextGenScience Blog

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The NASA Science Activation program’s PLACES (Broadening Data Fluency Through the Integration of NASA Assets and Place-Based Learning to Advance Connections, Education, and Stewardship) team – which focuses on supporting educators to implement Place-Based, Data-Rich (PBDR) instruction using NASA assets…

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NASA Data Shows July 22 Was Earth’s Hottest Day on Record

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July 22, 2024, was the hottest day on record, according to a NASA analysis of global daily temperature data. July 21 and 23 of this year also exceeded the previous daily record, set in July 2023. These record-breaking temperatures are…

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NASA Returns to Arctic Studying Summer Sea Ice Melt

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What happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic, and a new NASA mission is helping improve data modeling and increasing our understanding of Earth’s rapidly changing climate. Changing ice, ocean, and atmospheric conditions in the northernmost part of…

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ICON, shown in this artist’s concept, studied the frontiers of space, the dynamic zone high in our atmosphere where terrestrial weather from below meets space weather above.

NASA’s ICON Mission Ends with Several Ionospheric Breakthroughs

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After contributing to many important findings on the boundary between Earth’s atmosphere and space — an area where space weather can interfere with both satellites and communications signals — NASA’s ICON (Ionospheric Connection Explorer) mission has come to an end.…

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This is a still of a data visualization of global carbon dioxide that orbits Earth from a distance.

Watch Carbon Dioxide Move Through Earth’s Atmosphere

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What we’re looking at This global map shows concentrations of carbon dioxide as the gas moved through Earth’s atmosphere from January through March 2020, driven by wind patterns and atmospheric circulation.  Because of the model’s high resolution, you can zoom…

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NASA-Funded Studies Explain How Climate Is Changing Earth’s Rotation

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Researchers used more than 120 years of data to decipher how melting ice, dwindling groundwater, and rising seas are nudging the planet’s spin axis and lengthening days. Days on Earth are growing slightly longer, and that change is accelerating. The…

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The Earth Observer Editor’s Corner: Summer 2024

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NASA’s third EOS mission—AURA—marked 20 years in orbit on July 15, with two of its four instruments—MLS and OMI—still collecting quality datasets.

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The Earth Observer’s 35th Anniversary

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Welcome to a new era for The Earth Observer newsletter! Our 35th anniversary also marks the official public release of our new website. Over the past year and a half, The Earth Observer has migrated from a print publication (the last printed issue was November–December 2022)…

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A photp showing everal participants in NASA's Space Apps Challenge.

Registration Opens for the 2024 NASA International Space Apps Challenge

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NASA invites innovators, technologists, storytellers, and problem solvers to register for the 2024 NASA Space Apps Challenge, the largest annual global hackathon.

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Sun Climate Group Photo

Summary of the 2023 Sun – Climate Symposium

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Introduction Observations of the Sun and Earth from space continue to revolutionize our view and understanding of how solar variability and other natural and anthropogenic forcings impact Earth’s atmosphere and climate. For more than four decades (spanning four 11-year solar…

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A teacher wearing a hat sits in an open forest with the GLOBE observer app, showing a tree, in front of him.

Science Activation’s PLACES Team Facilitates Second Professional Learning Institute

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The NASA Science Activation Program’s Place-Based Learning to Advance Connections, Education, and Stewardship (PLACES) team successfully led their second Professional Learning (PL) Summer Institute (SI) at Northern Arizona University (NAU) in Flagstaff, Arizona from June 11-13, 2024. The team led…

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