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Helping Build the Internet: Valerie Thomas | Great Minds
Despite computers barely being a thing when she was born, Valerie Thomas knew that she was cut out for the tech world, pushed until she got there, and contributed to some hugely important technologies that many of us could not live without.
Astrum
What Satellites Can See From Space Is Troubling
The military spy satellites orbiting Earth, right now.
NASA
NASA in Silicon Valley: NASA and the USGS, a Shared History in Remote Sensing
A conversation with Jim Brass, Bruce Coffland from NASA and Susan Benjamin USGS director of the Western Geographic Science Center. They discuss the shared history between NASA and the USGS in remote sensing.
NASA
NASA's Curious Universe: From Space to Farm
Farmers rely on the accuracy of a crucial NASA and USGS mission, Landsat, to make decisions about crops. Those decisions have far-reaching implications that can impact what you see on your dinner plate!
NASA
NASA | Goddard's Detector Technology
Behind those stunning NASA images are specialized detectors developed, fabricated, and packaged here at the Goddard Space Flight Center. Tour the Detector Development Lab (DDL) and see how these first-of-a-kind detectors are created....
NASA
Getting a Bird’s-Eye View of Biodiversity With Landsat
Global temperatures are rising, putting bird species across America in danger of extinction as their habitats change. To understand how temperature affects birds across the country, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison...
NASA
NASA in Silicon Valley: Jennifer Dungan Talks About Studying the Earth with Satellites
A conversation with Jennifer Dungan, a research scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center and project manager for the big-data Earth science initiative, the NASA Earth Exchange.
NASA
NASA | TIRS: The Thermal InfraRed Sensor on LDCM
The Thermal InfraRed Sensor (TIRS) is one of the instruments on the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) satellite. It will continue the archive of thermal imaging and support emerging applications such as evapotranspiration rate...
NASA
12th Annual Goddard Film Festival
This year’s 12th Annual Goddard Film Festival will highlight Goddard’s achievements over the past year in astrophysics, Earth science, heliophysics and planetary science. Highlights include recent and upcoming missions such as the Nancy...
NASA
NASA | Continuing Landsat's 40-Year Legacy
The Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) is a collaboration between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey that will continue the Landsat Program's 40-year data record of monitoring Earth's landscapes from space. LDCM will expand and...
NASA
NASA | Best of "Earth As Art" -- Top Five
Counting down the Top Five Earth As Art images, as voted on by the public. Landsat has been collecting data of the Earth's surface since 1972. Some of the images are visually striking, and they have been selected for the "Earth As Art"...
NASA
NASA Studies Snow At The Winter Olympics
NASA engineer Manuel Vega can see one of the Olympic ski jump towers from the rooftop of the South Korean weather office where he is stationed. Vega is not watching skiers take flight, preparing for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics...
NASA
NASA | Landsat Tracks Urban Change and Flood Risk
Landsat data, which can identify areas of urbanization, are used by the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a key indicator of sites where the agency should further investigate the potential for flooding. With its archive of images...
NASA
Snacktime with NASA: Chips and Dip
Snacktime with NASA digs into the science behind what’s on your plate from a tasty cheese board, to seafood, to fresh produce, to chips and dip. Food can bring us a sense of home, and it connects people all around the world. With...
NASA
NASA / USGS | Landsat: A Space Age Water Gauge
Water specialists Rick Allen, Bill Kramber and Tony Morse have created an innovative satellite-based method that maps agricultural water consumption. The team uses Landsat thermal band data to measure the amount of water evaporating from...
NASA
Predicting Malaria Outbreaks With NASA Satellites
In the Amazon Rainforest, few animals are as dangerous to humans as mosquitos that transmit malaria. The tropical disease can bring on severe fever, headaches and chills and is particularly severe for children and the elderly and can...
NASA
NASA | Visions of Goddard
Excerpts from 14 short films about NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
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VP Kamala Harris at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
The urgency of Earth science and climate studies took the spotlight Friday, Nov. 5, 2021, as U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris visited NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Alongside NASA Administrator Bill Nelson,...
NASA
NASA | TIRS TVAC1 Opening the Vacuum Chamber
The Thermal InfraRed Sensor (TIRS) is part of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) to continue thermal imaging and to support emerging applications such as evapotranspiration rate measurements for water management. TIRS is being...
NASA
Landsat Helps Warn of Algae in Lakes, Rivers
From space, satellites such as the NASA and USGS Landsat 8 can help scientists identify where an algal bloom has formed in lakes or rivers. It’s a complicated data analysis process, but one that researchers are automating so resource...
NASA
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...
NASA
NASA | The Changing Chesapeake
The Chesapeake Bay receives water from the 64,000 square miles of land surrounding the bay and Landsat satellites are a critical and invaluable tool for characterizing the landscape and mapping it over time. Landsat data provides a...
NASA
NASA | From the River to the Sea
A pulse of water released down the lower reaches of the Colorado River last spring resulted in more than a 40 percent increase in green vegetation where the water flowed, as seen by the Landsat 8 satellite. The March 2014 release of...
NASA
NASA | Dalhart, Texas 1972-2011
A water-rich polka dot pattern takes over the traditional rectangular patchwork of fields in this 40 year sequence of Landsat images showing the dry Texas panhandle near the town of Dalhart. In this series, vegetation appears red and the...