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International SWOT Satellite Spots Planet-Rumbling Greenland Tsunami

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Editor’s Note: Text describing the color scale in the data visualization was updated on Nov. 2, 2024. Data from space shows water tilting up toward the north side of the Dickson Fjord as it sloshed from south to north and back…

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NASA, NOAA Rank 2024 Ozone Hole as 7th-Smallest Since Recovery Began

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Healing continues in the atmosphere over the Antarctic: a hole that opens annually in the ozone layer over Earth’s southern pole was relatively small in 2024 compared to other years. Scientists with NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration…

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NASA Helps Find Thawing Permafrost Adds to Near-Term Global Warming

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Earth’s far northern reaches have locked carbon underground for millennia. New research paints a picture of a landscape in change. A new study, co-authored by NASA scientists, details where and how greenhouse gases are escaping from the Earth’s vast northern…

Article4 days ago

High-Altitude ER-2 Flights Get Down-to-Earth Data

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Operating at altitudes above 99% of the Earth’s atmosphere, NASA’s ER-2 aircraft is the agency’s highest-flying airborne science platform. With its unique ability to observe from as high as 65,000 feet, the ER-2 aircraft is often a platform for Earth…

Article1 week ago

First Greenhouse Gas Plumes Detected With NASA-Designed Instrument

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The imaging spectrometer aboard the Carbon Mapper Coalition’s Tanager-1 satellite identified methane and carbon dioxide plumes in the United States and internationally. Using data from an instrument designed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, the nonprofit Carbon Mapper…

Article3 weeks ago

NASA-Funded Study Assesses Pollution Near Los Angeles-Area Warehouses

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Lee esta historia en español aquí. Satellite-based data offers a broad view of particulate air pollution patterns across a major West Coast e-commerce hub. As goods of all shapes and sizes journey from factory to doorstep, chances are they’ve stopped at…

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Systems Engineer Noosha Haghani Prepped PACE for Space

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Throughout the life cycles of missions, Goddard engineer Noosha Haghani has championed problem-solving and decision-making to get to flight-ready projects. Name: Noosha HaghaniTitle: Plankton Aerosol Clouds and Ecosystem (PACE) Deputy Mission Systems EngineerFormal Job Classification: Electrical engineerOrganization: Engineering and Technology…

Article4 weeks ago
Two lightning strikes are visible in the distance at night with city lights along the left of the image along the coastline of the bay that occupies the lower right and curves into the landscape on the lower left. The majority of the image is occupied by dark gray cloudcover.

Via NASA Plane, Scientists Find New Gamma-ray Emission in Storm Clouds

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There’s more to thunderclouds than rain and lightning. Thunderclouds can produce intense bursts of gamma rays.

Article1 month ago
An illustration showing the trajectory of ESA’s Juice spacecraft during its lunar-Earth gravity assist, featuring a high-resolution ENA image of the million-degree hot plasma halo encircling Earth captured by NASA’s JENI instrument

NASA’s Instruments Capture Sharpest Image of Earth’s Radiation Belt

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From Aug. 19-20, ESA’s (European Space Agency’s) Juice (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) mission made history with a daring lunar-Earth flyby and double gravity assist maneuver, a spaceflight first. As the spacecraft zipped past our Moon and home planet, Juice’s instruments…

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NASA Analysis Shows Irreversible Sea Level Rise for Pacific Islands

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Climate change is rapidly reshaping a region of the world that’s home to millions of people. In the next 30 years, Pacific Island nations such as Tuvalu, Kiribati, and Fiji will experience at least 6 inches (15 centimeters) of sea…

Article1 month ago