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Latest Features
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Stunning Lyrid Meteor Over Earth at Night
Video from the International Space Station shows breathtaking images of Earth with Lyrid meteors burning up in the atmosphere.
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NASA's New Carbon-Counting Instrument Leaves the Nest
NASA’s first mission dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide moves closer to reality with the shipment of its JPL-built science instrument.
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DC3: Chemistry of Thunderstorms
NASA researchers are about to fly off on a campaign that will take them into the heart of thunderstorm country.
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A NASA Weather 'Eye in the Sky' Marks 10 Years
With 2,378 spectral eyes measuring our atmosphere, the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder could be called a "monster" of weather and climate research.
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Plants Blooming, Leafing Earlier
Plants are leafing and flowering sooner each year than predicted by controlled experiments designed to predict plant responses to rising temperatures.
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NASA's ER-2 Completes MABEL Validation Deployment
The weather, the aircraft and the science instruments cooperated to successfully validate data from the MABEL laser altimeter planned for IceSat-2.
Latest News Releases
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Landsat Contest Offers View of Local Landscape Change from Space
05.24.12 - To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the United States' Landsat Earth-observing program, NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) are holding a contest that will offer winners customized satellite views of changing local landscapes.
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NASA Scientists Find History of Asteroid Impacts in Earth Rocks
04.25.12 - Research by NASA and international scientists concludes giant asteroids, similar or larger than the one believed to have killed the dinosaurs, hit Earth billions of years ago with more frequency than previously thought.
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Warm Ocean Currents Cause Majority of Ice Loss from Antarctica
04.25.12 - Warm ocean currents attacking the underside of ice shelves are the dominant cause of recent ice loss from Antarctica, a new study using measurements from NASA's Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) revealed.
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NASA Tests GPS Monitoring System for Big U.S. Earthquakes
04.24.12 - The space-based technology that lets GPS-equipped motorists constantly update their precise location will undergo a major test of its ability to rapidly pinpoint the location and magnitude of strong earthquakes across the western United States.
The Earth Observer Newsletter
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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.)
Earth Image of the Day
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Lakshadweep Islands →
Lakshadweep’s coral atolls glow iridescent blue-green in this natural-color scene from February 2012.
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