Glossary
- EDL (search)
Entry, Descent and Landing
- EOS (search)
Earth Observing System
- EOSDIS (search)
EOS Data and Information System
- EPA (search)
Environmental Protection Agency
- EPO (search)
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Education and Public Outreach. See Opportunities in Science Mission Directorate Education and Public Outreach.
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Variants
- Education and Public Outreach (search)
- ESA (search)
European Space Agency
- ESIP (search)
Federation of Earth Science Information Partners
- ESMD (search)
Exploration Systems Mission Directorate
- ESSP (search)
Earth System Science Pathfinder
- ESTO (search)
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From instruments to data access, the NASA Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO) develops technologies that enable a full range of scientific measurements, operational requirements, and practical applications that benefit society at large.
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Variants
- Earth Science Technology Office (search)
- Echo Sounders (search)
- Devices that use sound waves to measure the depth of surface water bodies.
- Variants
- El Nino (search)
- Warm-water conditions off the western tropical coasts of the Americas, occurring irregularly but usually around Christmastime, caused by weakening trade winds and causing depleted fisheries, heavier-than-normal rain in the central and eastern Pacific, and drought in the western Pacific.
- Ephemeris (search)
- An ephemeris is a tabulation of computed positions and velocities (and/or various derived quantities such as right ascension and declination) of an orbiting body at specific times. The plural form of ephemeris is ephemerides. In the context of this web-site, solar system bodies are implied.
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Variants
- ephermeris (search)
- ecosystems (search)
- the complex of a community of organisms and its environment functioning as an ecological unit
- Variants
- emissions (search)
- The production of light, or more generally, electromagnetic radiation by an atom or other object.
- Variants
- equilibrium (search)
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the state where conditions in a fluid are uniform or changing only slowly