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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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NASA's Aquarius Sees Salty Shifts

Aquarius, NASA’s first satellite instrument specifically built to study the salt content of ocean surface waters, has shown some remarkable ...

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The NASA P-3B made low approaches at local airports, getting as low as 100 feet to make key air quality measurements. Shown here is the Bakersfield regional airport.

Air Quality Research Campaign Concludes in California

The DISCOVER-AQ team completed their second destination in a five-year mission to study the air we breathe.

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NASA Eyes Declining Vegetation in Eastern U.S.

NASA scientists report that warmer temperatures and changes in precipitation locally and regionally have altered the growth of large forest areas.

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Sea ice ridge at one of the CryoSat-2 validation sights.

NASA Scientists Part of Arctic Sea Ice Study

NASA data and scientists contributed to a new study out of the United Kingdom that shows Arctic sea ice volume declining in recent years.

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Latest Features

Launching 101: First Weather Balloons, Then Rockets

Science writer Laura Betz shares her experiences assisting with weather balloons used to prepare for the recent launch of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission.
NASA/GLOBE Hand Down Pollution Studies to Calif. Students

Teachers are parlaying interest in the DISCOVER-AQ campaign into science lessons for students.
Glory Launch Failure Summary Released

NASA has released a summary report on findings from a panel that investigated the unsuccessful 2011 launch of the agency's Glory spacecraft.
Tiny CREPT Instrument to Study the Radiation Belts

A smaller version of an instrument now flying on NASA's Van Allen Probes has won a coveted spot aboard an upcoming NASA-sponsored Cubesat mission -- the perfect platform for this pint-size, solid-state telescope.
NASA Satellites Find Freshwater Losses in Middle East

A new study using data from a pair of gravity-measuring NASA satellites finds that large parts of the arid Middle East region lost freshwater reserves rapidly during the past decade.
Landsat 5 Sets Guinness Record

Landsat 5 sets the new Guinness World Records title for Longest-Operating Earth Observation Satellite.

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Latest News Releases

NASA Selects Launch Services for ICESat-2 Mission

02.22.13 - NASA's Launch Services Program at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida has selected United Launch Services, LLC of Englewood, Colo., to provide Delta II launch services for the Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat)-2 mission, currently scheduled for July 2016.
NASA Releases Glory Taurus XL Launch Failure Report Summary

02.20.13 - NASA has released a summary report on findings from a panel that investigated the unsuccessful 2011 launch of the agency's Glory spacecraft.
NASA Seeks University Participants for Summer Rocket Workshop

02.19.13 - University faculty and students interested in learning how to build scientific experiments for spaceflight are invited to join RockOn 2013 from June 15-20 at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
NASA Experts Discuss Russia Meteor in Media Teleconference Today

02.15.13 - NASA experts will hold a teleconference for news media at 4 p.m. EST today to discuss a meteor that streaked through the skies over Russia's Urals region this morning.

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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.)