NanoSail-D Stories
Rare, Widespread Snow in the Atacama Desert
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Back-to-back winter storms in August 2026 brought snowfall to northern Chile, from the Andes to near the Pacific coast.
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Building Foresight for Earth Science, featuring Lindsey Jacobson
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NASA’s Earth-observing satellite missions track dozens of features of a changing planet — aerosols, sea levels, land cover, cloud cover — over years and decades. Sustaining that record for the scientific and operational communities who depend on it requires more…
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NASA Johnson Pilots Chase Moon’s Shadow for Eclipse Science
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During the Aug. 12 total solar eclipse over Europe, scientists aimed to study a long-standing mystery: why the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, is far hotter than its visible surface. Capturing the data they needed meant being in exactly the right place at the right time. …
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