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Variations in total water storage

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 ...

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Disko Bay, Greenland

Ice Sheet Loss at Both Poles Increasing, Study Finds

An international team of experts has combined satellite and aircraft data to produce the most comprehensive assessment to date of ice sheet losses in ...

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Global sea level chart

What Goes Down Must Come Back Up

In 2010-11, global sea level fell nearly a quarter inch. But, when it comes to long-term sea level, what comes down must eventually come back up.

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Screen capture from video on ocean currents showing the Gulf Stream in the Atlantic.

NASA Views Our Perpetual Ocean

Tens of thousands of ocean currents are captured in this scientific visualization created by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

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Visualization of global groundwater depletion

NASA GRACE Data Hit Big Apple on World Water Day

Premiering on New York's Times Square today to mark World Water Day: a new visualization of global groundwater depletion.

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Latest Images

Turbulent Water Overflow

Turbulent water overflow

Over the course of several years, turbulent water overflow from a large melt lake carved this 60-foot-deep (18.3 meter-deep) canyon (note people near left edge for scale).

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Disko Bay, Greenland

Disko Bay, Greenland

The midnight sun casts a golden glow on an iceberg and its reflection in Disko Bay, Greenland. Much of Greenland's annual ice mass loss occurs through calving of icebergs such as this.

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GRACE Time Series

GRACE time series graph

Monthly changes in Antarctic ice mass, in gigatones, as measured by NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites from 2003 to 2011. The data illustrate the continuing loss of ice ...

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Global Sea Level

Mean sea level chart

This figure shows changes in global mean sea level as measured by satellite altimetry (NASA/CNES Topex/Poseidon and Jason-1; and NASA/CNES/NOAA/EUMETSAT Jason-2) between 1992 to 2012. The data have ...

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Artist's concept of Gravity Recovery and Climate ...

Artist's concept of Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment

GRACE, twin satellites launched in March 2002, are making detailed measurements of Earth's gravity field which will lead to discoveries about gravity and Earth's natural systems. These discoveries ...

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