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NASA Satellites Keep Watch on U.S. Food Supply
Since 2008, the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service, or NASS, has drawn on Landsat data to monitor dozens of crops in the lower 48 states as part of NASS's Cropland Data Layer program. The Cropland Data layer uses Landsat and...
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NASA | A Story of Ozone: The Earth’s Natural Sunscreen
In this talk, Dr. Paul Newman tells the story of how scientists and policy-makers safeguarded the Earth’s ozone layer and the world we avoided by by regulating chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) . Back in the 60s, we used chlorofluorocarbons, a...
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NASA and NOAA Take to the Air to Chase Smoke
NASA, NOAA and university partners are taking to the skies, and the ground, to chase smoke from fires burning across the United States. The Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality (FIREX-AQ) is starting in...
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Landsat 9: part 2, Designing For The Future
The soon-to-be-launched Landsat 9 is the intellectual and technical product of eight generations of Landsat missions, spanning nearly 50 years. Episode 2 takes us inside the spacecraft, showing how Landsat instruments collect carefully...
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NASA | CATS Up and Running on the ISS
On January 22, 2015, the Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS) was installed on the International Space Station. The team monitored the progress of the installation from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, where CATS was designed and...
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NASA | Ask a Climate Scientist
Have a question that's always confounded you about Earth's climate? Wonder why it matters that the climate is changing now if it has changed before? Or how scientists know changes seen in recent decades are the result of human...
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An EPIC View of the Moon’s Shadow During the June 10 Solar Eclipse
NASA’s EPIC, Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), sits aboard NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory Satellite (DSCOVR). EPIC provides high-quality, color images of Earth, which are useful for monitoring factors like the planet’s...
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PACE: Persistence and Perseverance Despite Pandemic
In the Spring of 2020, the physical construction of the PACE spacecraft moved into high gear, with engineers working hard to build, assemble, and test the actual machine. When the global COVID-19 pandemic forced social distancing among...
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Ocean Circulation Plays an Important Role in Absorbing Carbon from the Atmosphere
The oceans play a significant role in absorbing greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide, and heat from the atmosphere. This absorption can help mitigate the early effects of human-emissions of carbon dioxide. The Atlantic Meridional...
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Warmer Ocean Temperatures May Decrease Saharan Dust Crossing the Atlantic
Every year millions of tons of dust from the Sahara Desert are swirled up into the atmosphere by easterly trade winds, and carried across the Atlantic. The plumes can make their way from the African continent as far as the Amazon...
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PACE Mission to Study Ocean Health
Rising global temperatures are affecting our oceans in ways we have not yet fully explored. NASA’s PACE mission will use an ocean color imager to track phytoplankton communities over time, as well as monitor the health of our oceans and...
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NASA's 5 Newest Earth Expeditions Ready for Takeoff
NASA is sending five airborne campaigns across the United States in 2020 to investigate fundamental processes that ultimately impact human lives and the environment, from snowstorms along the East Coast to ocean eddies off the coast of...
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NASA Follows Changing Freshwater from Space
When we look into the vastness of space, our home planet stands out in many ways. One of the most crucial is the presence of abundant, accessible freshwater -- as a liquid, solid and gas. Water helps make our planet habitable. The first...
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LIVE: NASA Flying Parallel Science Campaigns at Both Poles
For the first time in its seven years of flights, NASA's Operation IceBridge, an airborne survey of changes in Earth’s polar ice, is conducting overlapping campaigns in Antarctica and the Arctic. Joining us are: Nathan Kurtz, IceBridge...
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NASA | Arctic Sea Ice Live Shot 2014
Dr. Tom Wagner talks about Arctic sea ice and the ARISE mission in this canned liveshot interview.
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ATom Postcard - Azore Islands to Kangerlussuaq
Atmospheric scientists Bernadett Weinzierl of the University of Vienna, Paul Newman of Goddard Space Flight Center, and Róisín Commane of Harvard University sent back a video postcard from the last three legs of the Atmospheric...
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Interconnected: The Science of NAAMES
Most people wouldn’t expect microscopic life forms in the ocean to have much to do with Earth’s atmosphere. It turns out that their influence is profound, which is why an extraordinary team of scientists has taken to the sea and the air...
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How a NASA Science Flight is No Ordinary Journey
A group of scientists and pilots conducted a series of science flights over Western Colorado for a new five-year NASA-led airborne mission called SnowEx. SnowEx is exploring better ways to measuring how much water is stored in...
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Dinosaur Age Meets the Space Age at NASA Goddard
In 2012, local dinosaur track expert Ray Stanford discovered a nodosaur track from the Cretaceous era on the campus of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt, Maryland. After the slab on which Stanford found the track was...
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Plants Are Struggling to Keep Up with Rising Carbon Dioxide Concentrations
Plants play a key role in mitigating climate change. The more carbon dioxide they absorb during photosynthesis, the less carbon dioxide remains trapped in the atmosphere where it can cause temperatures to rise. But scientists have...
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Our Dynamic Earth: Rebound and Subsidence
It’s not only water processes that play a role in global sea level rise – ground movements can play a significant role as well. On a continental scale, Earth’s crust is still recovering from the last ice age. Around 20,000 years ago,...
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NASA's CAMP2Ex Heads to the Philippines for Monsoon Season
NASA, the Naval Research Laboratory and the Manila Observatory are working together in the Philippines to study how tiny particles in the atmosphere affect cloud formation. Music credit: "After the Sun" from Killer Tracks Credit: NASA's...
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NASA | On Board NPP: The Five Instruments
The NPP satellite has 5 instruments on board: VIIRS, CERES, CrIS, ATMS, and OMPS. Each one will deliver a specific set of data helping weather prediction and climate studies. This video is a quick overview of each instrument and its...
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Field Study Sheds New Light on Melt Zone
Five years after a NASA-funded field study returned to to set up camp once again in the melt zone of the Greenland Ice Sheet, a new study adds to the rich findings from this innovative project. We look back on this bold undertaking,...