The video discusses the importance of monitoring polar ice decline and introduces the upcoming launch of the Cryosat satellite by the European Space Agency. Cryosat will use radar technology to precisely map changes in the thickness of...

This video explores five fun facts about glaciers.

In a tsunami, devastation is created by far more than the wave itself. Debris that hits homes and other structures plays a huge role in a tsunami's destructive power. But until now, engineers could only estimate the forces at work when...

Presented virtually, the festival highlights Goddard’s achievements over the...

With Earth’s recent record-breaking temperatures, the pace of sea level rise has accelerated. NASA scientists take us on a trip into their research right here on our home planet. Join us as we fly over Antarctic ice sheets and consult...

A massive wall of ice may have stopped the first people entering the Americas doing so via the land bridge that connected it with Asia.

NSF-funded KU researchers successfully test unmanned aircraft system in Antarctica. Check it out!

"Melting Ice, Rising Seas" is Episode 5 in the six-part series "Tides of Change", exploring amazing NASA ocean science to celebrate Earth Science Week 2009. Sea level rise is an indicator that our planet is warming. Much of the world's...

This brief video introduces the viewer to how lakes are formed on our planet and the different types of lakes we might find on Earth.

NASA Hangout: Wildfire and Climate Change

In this week's episode, we discover hidden dangers in crib mattresses; we learn about a new stretchable antenna for wearable health monitoring devices; we study the dynamics of deep Earth; and, finally, we explore Antarctic ice sheets...

In episode 20, Charlie and Jordan chat about rising sea levels, biodegradable "smart" implants and the existence of the pentaquark.

In episode 20, Charlie and Jordan chat about rising sea levels, biodegradable “smart” implants and the existence of the pentaquark.

NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) mission uses ships and planes to measure how ocean temperatures affect Greenland's vast icy expanses. Jakobshavn Glacier, known in Greenlandic as Sermeq Kujalle, on Greenland's...

The topic of climate change inspires a lot of debate. At NASA, it has also inspired a lot of science.



NASA scientists examine the Earth's climate and how it is changing -- gaining knowledge through decades of...

In this week's episode we discover hidden dangers in crib mattresses. We learn about a new stretchable antenna for wearable health monitoring devices. We study the dynamics of deep Earth and finally we explore Antarctic ice sheets from...

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...

In 2018, NASA will intensify its focus on one of the most critical but remote parts of our changing planet with the launch of two new satellite missions and an array of airborne campaigns.

GRACE-FO and ICESat-2 will use...

With winter closing in, a new NASA airborne campaign launched October 31, 2013 in Greenland. For the first time, the Laser Vegetation Imaging Sensor, or LVIS, is flying about NASA's new C-130 aircraft to measure the island's...

NASA cryospheric scientist Kelly Brunt and ICESat-2 Deputy Project Scientist Tom Neumann recall some of the highlights and challenges from the recent 88-South Antarctic Traverse, which provided elevation data support for the...

Ice caps are simply small versions of ice sheets, measuring in at a maximum area of 50,000 square kilometers (about 19,000 square miles). It's their small and thin stature that makes ice caps more prone to melt in a warming Arctic....

Greenland and Antarctica are home to most of the world's glacial ice – including its only two ice sheets – making them areas of particular interest to scientists. Combined, the two regions also contain enough ice, that if it...

This year Operation IceBridge has returned twice to the Pine Island Glacier, the site of a massive glacial crack poised to potentially create an iceberg the size of New York City.



Operation IceBridge returned to the Pine...

Operation IceBridge is heading back into the Arctic with two aircraft and the most sophisticated suite of instruments ever flown in polar regions. This year's mission will focus on sea ice thickness, the Canadian Ice Caps, Greenland...