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NASA Laser Reflecting Instruments to Help Pinpoint Earth Measurements
The best known use of GPS satellites is to help people know their location whether driving a car, navigating a ship or plane, or trekking across remote territory. Another important, but lesser-known, use is to distribute information to other Earth-viewing…

Google’s ‘A Passage of Water’ Brings NASA’s Water Data to Life
As part of the long-standing partnership, NASA worked with Google Arts & Culture to create an interactive digital experience around global freshwater.

NASA’s 6-Pack of Mini-Satellites Ready for Their Moment in the Sun
Most NASA missions feature one spacecraft or, occasionally, a few. The agency’s Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment (SunRISE) is using half a dozen. This month, mission members completed construction of the six identical cereal box-size satellites, which will now go…

NASA Leadership to Participate in Global Climate Change Conference
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and other agency leaders will participate in the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP28) beginning Thursday, Nov. 30, through Tuesday, Dec. 12, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. This global conference brings together…

NASA to Showcase Earth Science Data at COP28
NASA will share knowledge and data at the 28th U.N. Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP28), held at the Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates from Thursday, Nov. 30 to Tuesday, Dec. 12.

Connect with NASA at FAN EXPO San Francisco 2023
Connect your sci-fi fandom and learn about how NASA explores the unknown in space for all humanity! Join experts and engagement team members from NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley at FAN EXPO San Francisco 2023. Visit the exhibit,…

NASA Mission Excels at Spotting Greenhouse Gas Emission Sources
Since launching 16 months ago, the EMIT imaging spectrometer aboard the International Space Station has shown an ability to detect more than just surface minerals. More than a year after first detecting methane plumes from its perch aboard the International…

Satellite Data Can Help Limit the Dangers of Windblown Dust
Dust storms present a growing threat to the health and safety of U.S. populations.

Trailblazing New Earth Satellite Put to Test in Preparation for Launch
During three weeks in a thermal vacuum chamber in Bengaluru, India, the joint NASA-ISRO satellite demonstrated its hardiness in a harsh, space-like environment. NISAR, the trailblazing Earth-observing radar satellite being developed by the United States and Indian space agencies, passed…

Peter Griffith: Diving Into Carbon Cycle Science
Dr. Peter Griffith serves as the director of NASA’s Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems Office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Dr. Griffith’s scientific journey began by swimming in lakes as a child, then to scuba diving with the Smithsonian Institution,…

NASA Analysis Finds Strong El Niño Could Bring Extra Floods This Winter
Such high-tide flooding that inundates roads and buildings along the west coast of the Americas tends to be uncommon outside of El Niño years, but that could change by the 2030s. An analysis by NASA’s sea level change science team…

NASA Project Manager Helps Makes Impact in Southeast Asia with SERVIR
By Celine Smith “As the seedlings were placed in the water, I felt a moment of déjà vu,” said NASA scientist Tony Kim. “I was taken back to when I was a child playing in similar fields in South Korea.…
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