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Top Stories

The three NASA-built instruments and associated ground support equipment for the U.S./European Jason-3 ocean altimetry satellite are removed from a Cargo Lux 747-800 transport plane

NASA Ships Sensors for Seafaring Satellite to France

NASA’s instruments for the next in a series of missions to chart sea level and improve weather, climate and ocean forecasts have shipped overseas for ...

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natural-color image of Aral Sea from LDCM

Landsat Looks for a Cloud-Free View

A new feature of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission will help ensure scientists get a cloud-free view of Earth from space.

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Aqua satellite view of storm system over Oklahoma

Satellite Views of Midwest Storm

NASA and NOAA satellites observed the severe storm system that spawned the Moore, Okla., tornado on May 20, 2013.

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The Aletsch Glacier in Switzerland is the largest valley glacier in the Alps and it has been losing mass since mid-19th century.

NASA Data Pinpoints Glaciers' Role in Sea Level Rise

99% of all of Earth’s land ice is locked into the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. But from 2003 to 2009, the world’s other glaciers contributed ...

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Latest Features

  • Teachers Mark Buesing and Jette Poulsen aboard the NASA P-3B during an IceBridge survey flight on Apr. 8, 2013.

    Science Teachers See NASA IceBridge Research

    NASA's Operation IceBridge hosted three science teachers during their recent Arctic field campaign, giving these educators a first-hand polar science experience that they could use to teach and inspire their students.

  • One of 20 balloon launches from Antarctica for the BARREL mission.

    NASA’s BARREL Mission Launches 20 Balloons

    In Antarctica in January, 2013 scientists released 20 balloons, to study the giant radiation belts surrounding Earth and how they lose particles, causing electrons from the belts to stream down toward the poles.

  • Radiometers may be flown on a constellation of satellites, like the one shown here in this graphic.

    Cubesat Berth Awarded to Gather Earth Energy Imbalance Measurements

    A team of scientists has won a berth on a tiny satellite to explore one of NASA's last frontiers in climate studies: the imbalance in Earth's energy budget.

  • LDCM view of Saudia Arabia coast

    LDCM Arrives in Final Orbit

    The Landsat Data Continuity Mission offers a look at Earth from space with a crisper view than our eyes alone would be capable of.

  • MODIS image of Cyclone 01B

    Mahasen (Northern Indian Ocean)

    NASA’s Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite known as TRMM measured Cyclone Mahasen’s rainfall rates from space as it made landfall on May 16.

  • The quick dry-out of vegetation in Southern California this year is depicted in this pair of images

    Satellites See Double Jeopardy for SoCal Fire Season

    New insights into two factors that are creating a potentially volatile Southern California wildfire season come from an ongoing project using NASA and Indian satellite data by scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.; and Chapman University, Orange, Calif.

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