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Maryland   10:00 p.m. Rafael Rincon: Today was a really good day – things went really smoothly and we successfully acquired a lot of good data without any glitches.   The flights today were over the Everglades and the Florida keys. It was very scenic, and I wanted to get some pictures out the window but I […]

Homestead, Florida    7:35 a.m. Rafael Rincon: Good morning!  It’s early here, but we have been working already for a few hours.   I’m standing outside the airplane, and we are getting ready to board for today’s flight.  We made sure that everything is in place, and we are ready to go, as soon as they call […]

West River, Maryland    11:10 p.m. This is Joanne Howl, the writer for this blog.  Normally I take a back seat, not speaking myself but sharing the stories that the science team brings to me each day.   Today I wanted to take a moment to speak as myself. After a week layoff, the team is back […]

As the world reflects on the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, the Earth Observatory team has been struggling with what to say and do.  Like so many other media outlets, we felt compelled to say something, to show something. Our data visualization team found this: a previously unpublished […]

Post from Paul Przyborski, EO programmer… For the past few weeks, we have quietly implemented a new way of viewing images on Earth Observatory. Some of you may have noticed that there is now a “view image comparison” button on some of our Natural Hazards images, as well as on this Image of the Day. You […]

Our new telescope in New Mexico — we call it MUT, or Multi-Use Telescope. It can see the explosion flashes caused by meteoroids hitting the moon, measure dust coming off comets, see meteors in the atmosphere, and track satellites/space junk.  MUT also takes nice pictures!  Test image with the MUT telescope we just set up in …

The Eco-3D campaign has been supported by many people, including scientists, engineers, flight crew, students, professors and others.   The biographies below are limited to members of the Ec0-3D Field and Aircraft Campaign 2011. Charles Gatebe, Ph.D.          Principal Investigator CAR Dr. Gatebe works at Goddard Space Flight Center as a scientist and group lead with the […]

Behold the Mesmerizing Flow of Antarctic Ice The first complete map of the speed and direction of ice flow in Antarctica slid off Science’s presses last month and hit the media with a splash. The BBC, New York Times, Climate Central and dozens of other publications highlighted the news and linked to this striking visualization […]

Maryland,  8:45 p.m. From Rafael Rincon: I’m back in Maryland, and calling in as we drive from Wallops, Virginia to Goddard in Maryland. It’s been a very long day, but rewarding.  We’ve gathered a lot of data and learned more about our instruments, so we have to say this leg of the mission was exhausting […]

Bangor, ME   10:00 p.m. From Rafael Rincon: I’m pretty busy tonight, even though it’s already late.  I’m in the hotel room after a long day, and I have had to bring the computer from the P3 to the room to do some trouble shooting tonight.   I’ll be working very late again, it looks like, but […]