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NASA Rainfall Data and Global Fire Weather
The Global Fire WEather Database (GFWED) integrates different weather factors influencing the likelihood of a vegetation fire starting and spreading. It is based on the Fire Weather Index (FWI) System, which tracks the dryness of three...
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Singapore's Journey into Space
As a small country, Singapore has to pick and choose what space endeavors it will focus on. Learn about the satellites Singapore has been launching and how they're used. Space Race part 1/5
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NASA | Sentinels of the Heliosphere
What NASA calls its 'Heliophysics Observatory' is an impressive fleet of spacecraft designed (often with international partnership) to study the relationship between the Sun, Earth, and Solar System. Flying in an array of trajectories...
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NASA | The How-To Guide to Satellites: The Design Review
Building satellites isn't easy. They're complex, expensive, and not to mention hard to make! This is why whenever NASA makes a new satellite--like the MAVEN mission to Mars--its scientists and engineers do everything they can to make...
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NASA | Sea Level Rising: Interview with Tom Wagner
Earth’s rising seas are some of most visible signs of our warming planet. Over the last 20 years, NASA satellites, airborne missions and field campaigns show a steady rise in global sea levels as the world’s polar ice sheets melt. As the...
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Intense String of Hurricanes Seen From Space
In 2017, we have seen four Atlantic storms rapidly intensify with three of those storms - Hurricane Harvey, Irma and Maria - making landfall. When hurricanes intensify a large amount in a short period, scientists call this process rapid...
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Five Things about Radiation Donuts
Have more questions about Earth’s radiation donuts? Ask our scientists in the comments below! Join Van Allen Probes scientists Feb. 12 from 1-3 p.m. EST10 a.m. - 12 p.m. PST to get your questions answered! Earth is surrounded by giant,...
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Why NASA Is Exploring The Edge Of Our Planet's Atmosphere
The Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, or GOLD, instrument launches aboard a commercial communications satellite in January 2018 to inspect the dynamic intermingling of space and Earth’s uppermost atmosphere. Together, GOLD...
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Two Scientists Have a Frank and Honest Discussion about Antarctica
NASA Glaciologists Kelly Brunt and Alex Gardner discuss the history, challenges, and evolution of mapping the Antarctic continent and what it means for science and society. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Ryan Fitzgibbons...
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NASA | Sun for Kids
We look at the sun rising every day. It's bright, it's big and it warms us up. Our sun happens to be the brightest object in our universe and it has captured our curiosity and imaginations throughout history. Our sun is very dynamic and...
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NASA | Teaming Up to Test the Future of Satellite Refueling
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and Kennedy Space Center in Florida joined teams and efforts to test new robotic refueling technologies that could help satellites live longer in space. During the test, a robotic arm with a...
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NASA | Earth Observatory: A Decade of Incredible Stories
April 29, 2009, marked the tenth anniversary of the launch of NASA's Earth Observatory. For the last decade, the Earth Observatory has been using the stunning images and data provided by NASA satellites to tell the story of our planet...
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NASA | Discover-AQ
NASA's launching a new mission this summer designed to better understand air pollution and gather data that could allow pollutants to be monitored more exactly from space. The field study coined, "Discover-AQ", will take place over the...
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Building and Utilizing Satellites in Singapore
This video highlights the incredible work of a team of engineers in Singapore who built the TeLEOS-1 satellite. This satellite provided valuable imagery for geospatial analysis, aiding in disaster response and identifying illegal...
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NASA and Partners Get Back into Snow Business
NASA’s SnowEx ground and airborne campaign is a multiyear effort using a variety of techniques to study snow characteristics, and the team began their new field study year in January 2021. Not only is SnowEx learning valuable information...
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NASA | Top Solar Discoveries: #5
A countdown of the top 5 solar discoveries from the Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum. These include the discoveries of sunspots, the solar cycle, the heliosphere, aurora formation, and space weather. An introduction plus Number 5 in...
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NASA | Scientists Link Earlier Melting Of Snow To Dark Aerosols
Tiny particles suspended in the air, known as aerosols, can darken snow and ice causing it to absorb more of the sun’s energy. But until recently, scientists rarely considered the effect of all three major types of light-absorbing...
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NASA | Science for a Hungry World: Part 1
As the first of six episodes, Science for a Hungry World: Part 1 sets the groundwork for explaining why NASA data is critical to ensure a stable global food system. This video reveals how satellite remote sensing data provide the world...
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Tour 2022: NASA's Upcoming Earth Missions
NASA has a unique view of our planet from space. NASA’s fleet of Earth-observing satellites provide high quality data on different parts of Earth’s interconnected environment from air quality to sea ice. Take a tour of missions launching...
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The Largest Group of Earth Scientists on Earth
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has the largest collection of Earth scientists on the planet. Their job is to be the nation's trusted source of comprehensive environmental information about the current state and the future of Earth....
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Science Comes Alive at NASA Goddard
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is home to the nation's largest organization of scientists, engineers and technologists who build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study Earth, the sun, our solar...
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NASA | Looking Down a Well: A Brief History of Geodesy
Geodesy is a field of study that deals with the measurement and representation of the Earth, and it all started when a clever human named Eratosthenes discovered that you could measure the circumference of the Earth by looking down a...
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NASA | Aqua MODIS: Science and Beauty
Beautiful images from the MODIS instrument on NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites are used by people all over the world every day. But MODIS is about more than just pretty pictures -- the instrument's contributions to science include a...
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A Trip Through Time With Landsat 9
For half a century, the Landsat mission has shown us Earth from space. Now, come along with us on a "roadtrip" through the decades to see how the technology on this NASA and U.S. Geological Survey partnership has evolved with the times...