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Human Activity Impacted Space Weather
Our Cold War history is now offering scientists a chance to better understand the complex space system that surrounds us. Space weather -- which can include changes in Earth's magnetic environment -- are usually triggered by the sun's...
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Explore with Landsat: Where Would You Go?
With 50 years of Landsat data tracking our changing planet, scientists study how we're all #ConnectedByEarth. But we wonder - what will the next generation explore? Curious kids can make a video to ask Landsat scientists questions about...
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Mysterious weak spot in the Earth’s magnetic field is spreading: ESA
A mysterious anomaly in the Earth’s magnetic field that stretches from South America to Africa is spreading.
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NASA | Science for a Hungry World: Part 5
This episode discusses dwindling groundwater resources in India.
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NASA/NOAA | GOES-P: Mission Overview Video
GOES-P is set to launch in 2010. It will be the last in an improved series of satellites that has helped forecast the development of severe weather for 35 years. Operated by NOAA and launched by NASA, GOES-P will continue providing...
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NASA | Solar Hurricane Tears Off Tail of Comet Encke
NASA's STEREO satellite captured the first images ever of a collision between a solar "hurricane", called a coronal mass ejection (CME), and a comet. The collision caused the complete detachment of the comet's plasma tail. Scientists...
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NASA | SDO's Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI)
Dean Pesnell, the SDO Project Scientist, explains how the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) instrument will allow us to see activity inside the sun and even on the other side of the sun. This video is available for download from the...
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How NASA Satellites Help Model the Future of Climate
Continuing key observations of the Earth is really important to see how our atmosphere, land and oceans are changing over time. A long-term record, combined with cutting edge observations from the new NASA Earth System Observatory, will...
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A Total Solar Eclipse Revealed Solar Storms 100 Years Before Satellites
Eclipses set the stage for historic science. NASA is taking advantage of the Aug. 21, 2017 eclipse by funding 11 ground-based scientific studies. As our scientists prepare their experiments for next week, we're looking back to an...
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Discovering Eurybates' Satellite
On Jan. 9, 2020, the Lucy Mission officially announced that it would be visiting not seven, but eight asteroids. As it turns out, Eurybates, one of the asteroids along Lucy’s path, has a small satellite. Shortly after the Lucy team...
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NASA | Seeing Photosynthesis from Space
NASA scientists have discovered a new way to use satellites to measure what's occurring inside Earth's land plants at a cellular level. During photosynthesis, plants emit what is called fluorescence -- a form of light invisible to the...
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The Ambitious Plans of Singapore in Space Exploration
Singapore's location near the equator gives it an advantage for launching rockets. This rocket scientist wants to make it happen. Space Race part 5/5
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NASA | TDRS: The Network That Enables Exploration
NASA is preparing to launch the second in a series of three, third generation advanced Tracking and Data Relay Satellites, known as TDRS. This latest addition to the fleet of eight, TDRS-L will augment a space communications network that...
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NASA | Getting the Big Picture
A brief animated look at the different types of remote sensing techniques that NASA uses to study the Earth.
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Keeping Track of Food Production From Space
While USDA has monitored crops around the world for almost a century, the discovery that satellites can “see” greening of vegetation has revolutionized agricultural monitoring for food security. The development of the GLAM system in the...
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Supercharging the Radiation Belts
On March 17, 2015, an interplanetary shock – a shockwave created by the driving force of a coronal mass ejection, or CME, from the sun – struck the outermost radiation belt, triggering the greatest geomagnetic storm of the preceding...
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NASA, ESA, JAXA Reveal New COVID-19 Dashboard
The collective power of space-based Earth observations from NASA, ESA (the European Space Agency), and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to see global changes around the world has been harnessed to produce the COVID-19 Earth...
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NASA | Tornadoes with Tim Samaras
Credits: NASA, NOAA In this video severe storm researcher and engineer Tim Samaras talks about his view on tornadoes and what remains to be understood. He also covers the importance of satellite imagery to his research.
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5 Things That Changed Weather Forecasting Forever
Our ability to predict the weather, though still imperfect, would astound our ancestors. And decades of improvements in weather satellite technology, driven by teams of fiercely dedicated scientists and engineers, have made that...
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NASA | Global Landslide Catalog Aids View From Space
Landslides are among the most common and dramatic natural hazards, reshaping landscapes -- and anything in their path. Tracking when and where landslides occur worldwide has historically been difficult, because of the lack of a...
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Satellites Aid Active Fire Response
Front-line responders do the heavy lifting when it comes to fighting and managing wildfires, but they’re often helped by the view from higher up. Each year, a coordinated effort from US Forest Service aircraft teams and satellite teams...
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NASA/NOAA | Saved By A Weather Satellite
The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) have the ability to constantly oversee a large area of the Earth and send real time data to users. GOES sends not only weather data but it also watches the sun continuously...
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NASA/NOAA | Countdown to GOES-O Severe Weather Satellite Launch
NASA is preparing for the launch of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-O (GOES-O) from Space Launch Complex 37 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The GOES-O launch is targeted for June 26 during a launch...
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NASA Has Eyes On The Atlantic Hurricane Season
NASA has a unique and important view of hurricanes around the planet. Satellites and aircraft watch as storms form, travel across the ocean and sometimes, make landfall. After the hurricanes have passed, the satellites and aircraft see...