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Earth Science Apps

illustration of iPhones NASA's free "Earth-Now" Apple and Android app immerses users in dazzling visualizations of near-real-time global climate data from NASA's fleet of Earth science satellites.

Access NASA science on your iPad with the NASA Visualization Explorer.

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Interactives

Fly alongside NASA's Earth-observing satellite fleet in this interactive.

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Climate Change

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NASA's home on the web for global climate change information.

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Earth Observatory

Images and stories about climate and the environment that emerge from NASA research.

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Hurricane Updates

News and updates on NASA research focusing on tropical cyclones worldwide.

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Fires and Smoke

NASA satellites and aircraft examine fires around the world.

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Visualizing Science

NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio depicts and explains real NASA science with HD videos and other broadcast-quality products.

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Operation IceBridge Resumes Antarctic Flights

Scientists and flight crew members with NASA's airborne mission to study Earth's polar ice are beginning another Antarctic campaign.

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Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches New Max. Extent

Two weeks after a record low sea ice minimum in the Arctic Ocean, the ice around Antarctica reached its annual winter maximum—and set a record for a ...

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The Knorr research vessal (top) on the SPURS mission got a call from the ISS (bottom).

Hello, Knorr? It's the ISS Calling

Scientists aboard NASA's SPURS ocean research cruise and an astronaut aboard the International Space Station shared notes on exploring space and the ...

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Students Invited to Connect with Earth Explorers

NASA Earth explorers will take students on virtual trips around the world to inspire them to pursue science, technology, engineering and math careers.

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Latest Features

ISERV Team Earns NASA Silver Achievement Medal

The ISERV Team was honored at the MSFC Annual Honor Awards Ceremonies for receiving the prestigious NASA Silver Achievement Medal.
Electromagnetic Interference/Capability (EMI/EMC) testing and structural dynamics testing completed for LDCM.

Orbital Sciences Corporation recently completed Electromagnetic Interference/Capability (EMI/EMC) testing and structural dynamics testing of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) satellite.
Satellite Sees Giant 'Fog Ring' in U.S. Southwest

The GOES-14 satellite saw a ring of fog over the southwestern United States on Oct. 4.
HS3 Mission Thoroughly Investigates Long-Lived Hurricane Nadine

NASA's Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel scientists had a fascinating tropical cyclone to study in long-lived Hurricane Nadine, making 5 flights over the storm.
Idaho Fires, September 2012

Taken with a short lens (45 millimeters), this west-looking astronaut photograph has a field of view covering much of the forested region of central Idaho. The dark areas are wooded mountains—the Salm...
NASA Airborne Radar To Study Japanese Volcanoes

NASA's Airborne Science C-20A, carrying JPL's UAVSAR sensor, travels to Alaska and Japan this week for a radar imaging study of active volcanoes.

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Latest News Releases

NASA'S Operation Icebridge Resumes Flights Over Antarctica

10.12.12 - Scientists and flight crew members with Operation IceBridge, NASA's airborne mission to study Earth's changing polar ice, are beginning another campaign over Antarctica.
NASA Selects Ocean Color Services Contractor

09.27.12 - NASA selects Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) of McLean, Va., for ocean color services at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
NASA'S Global Hawk Mission Begins With Flight To Hurricane Leslie

09.07.12 - NASA has begun its latest hurricane science field campaign by flying an unmanned Global Hawk aircraft over Hurricane Leslie in the Atlantic Ocean during a day-long flight from California to Virginia.
NASA Voyage Set To Explore Link Between Sea Saltiness And Climate

09.05.12 - A NASA-sponsored expedition is set to sail to the North Atlantic's saltiest spot to get a detailed, 3-D picture of how salt content fluctuates in the ocean's upper layers and how these variations are related to shifts in rainfall patterns around the planet.

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The Earth Observer Newsletter

NASA Earth Science: Consolidated →

Read the latest issue of The Earth Observer, a bimonthly publication that consolidates NASA Earth science news. The EOS Project Science Office publishes the newsletter. (Issue archive here.)