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Latest Features
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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New Public Application of Landsat Images Released
Google has compiled more than a quarter-century of images of Earth taken from space into an interactive time-lapse experience.
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Satellite Captures Night-time image of California’s Springs Fire
From its orbit around the Earth, the NASA-NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite or Suomi NPP satellite, captured a night-time image of California’s Springs Fire.
Latest News Releases
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NASA Satellite Data Help Pinpoint Glaciers' Role in Sea Level Rise
05.16.13 - A new study of glaciers worldwide using observations from two NASA satellites has helped resolve differences in estimates of how fast glaciers are disappearing and contributing to sea level rise.
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NASA Study Projects Warming-Driven Changes in Global Rainfall
05.03.13 - A NASA-led modeling study provides new evidence that global warming may increase the risk for extreme rainfall and drought.
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NASA Opens New Era in Measuring Western U.S. Snowpack
05.02.13 - A new NASA airborne mission has created the first maps of the entire snowpack of two major mountain watersheds in California and Colorado, producing the most accurate measurements to date of how much water they hold.
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NASA Rover Prototype Set to Explore Greenland Ice Sheet
05.01.13 - NASA's newest scientific rover is set for testing May 3 through June 8 in the highest part of Greenland.
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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LDCM Looks for Water Amidst the Heat →
Thermal infrared imagery of the Southern California desert picks up the invisible water in the farmland around the Salton Sea.
