Understanding the terrestrial carbon cycle is essential for diagnosing current and predicting... View Mission

NASA's commitment to studying the Earth as a global system... View Mission

The Atmospheric Tomography Mission (ATom) will study the impact of human-produced air pollution... View Mission

NASA's Aura is a mission to understand and protect the air we breathe. With the launch of Aura... View Mission

The CALIPSO satellite was developed to help scientists answer significant questions and provide... View Mission

CloudSat uses advanced radar to "slice" through clouds to see their vertical structure,... View Mission

The goal of the COral Reef Airborne Laboratory (CORAL) is to provide critical data and new... View Mission

The Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) will make frequent and accurate... View Mission

The Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) mission is a multi-agency (NOAA, United States Air... View Mission

Future terrestrial biosphere changes are critically dependent on water availability and... View Mission

EMIT will use NASA-invented imaging spectroscopy technology to measure the mineral composition... View Mission

The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) produces the first high resolution laser... View Mission

The launch of the prototype Synchronous Meteorological Satellite, SMS-A, in May 1974 inaugurated... View Mission

The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R Series (GOES-R) is the next generation... View Mission

Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) is an international satellite mission to provide next-... View Mission

The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-on (GRACE-FO) mission will allow scientists... View Mission

ICESat (Ice, Cloud,and land Elevation Satellite) is the benchmark Earth Observing System mission... View Mission

Jason-3 is a satellite mission that supports scientific, commercial and practical applications... View Mission

LAGEOS, or Laser Geodynamics Satellites, are a series of satellites designed to provide an... View Mission

Landsat 7, launched on April 15, 1999, continues the legacy of... View Mission

Landsat 8 launched on February 11, 2013, is the eighth in the series of Landsat satellites... View Mission

A land imaging mission making critical observations of the long term environmental changes we... View Mission

LIS detects the distribution and variability of lightning to advance our understanding of the... View Mission

MetOp is a series of three polar orbiting meteorological satellites developed and operated by... View Mission

MetOp is a series of three polar orbiting meteorological satellites developed and operated by... View Mission

Plankton ecosystems of the ocean are strongly interconnected with climate and life on Earth. A... View Mission

NOAA-N (POES-N) launched May 20, 2005 and is the latest polar-orbiting satellite developed by... View Mission

The Orbiting Carbon Observatory -2 (OCO-2) is based on the original OCO mission that was... View Mission

Orbiting Carbon Observatory – 3 (OCO-3) is a complete stand-alone payload built using the spare... View Mission

Global sea level rise will be one of the major environmental challenges of the 21st Century.... View Mission

Southern Africa produces almost a third of the Earth’s biomass burning aerosol particles, yet... View Mission

The SAGE III instrument is used to study ozone, a gas found in the upper atmosphere that acts as... View Mission