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NASA Celebrates Earth Day 2012 in the Washington Area
04.12.12 - NASA is taking part in the celebration of Earth Day's 42nd anniversary on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., from April 20 through April 22, 2012.
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Live Music, NASA Science, American Indian Perspectives
04.20.12 - NASA's "Beautiful Earth" educational program combines interactive talks and hands-on workshops for students with live music.
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Students Use Xbox Kinect to Enhance Visualizations of Earth
04.20.12 - Students in a NASA training and development program put an Xbox Kinect into their 3-D virtual environment to display satellite data.
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Ash Cloud from Mexico's Popocatepetl Volcano
04.20.12 - Mexico's Popocatepetl Volcano has re-awakened and has been emitting gas and ash.
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Home Through the Astronauts' Eyes
In honor of Earth Day a half century into the space age, here is a list of the top 10 most requested Earth images taken by astronauts.
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NASA Marks Earth Day with Public Events and Online Activities
04.18.12 - NASA will celebrate the 42nd anniversary of Earth Day this week with several live and online activities to engage the public about the agency's mission to use space to explore and better understand our planet.
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Great Plains Tornado Outbreak Seen from Space
04.17.12 - NASA has just released an animation of visible and infrared satellite data showing the development and movement of the Great Plains tornado outbreak.
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SERVIR: Expanding From the Ground to the ISS
04.16.12 - SERVIR, NASA and USAID's joint-venture environmental monitoring system, is adding a new research and global observation tool to the ISS.
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Public Invited to Two Free Earth Day 2012 Events at NASA Goddard
04.16.12 - NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. is hosting two free events on April 18 in celebration of Earth Day's forty-second anniversary.
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Breaking the Ice on Icebergs
04.13.12 - It's been 100 years since the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank. JPL scientists demystify these frozen mountains of floating ice.
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Texas Storm System in 3-D
04.05.12 - NASA's TRMM satellite gathered data above the Texas storm system on April 3, providing a 3-D view of rain intensity and vertical distribution.
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GOES Satellite Movie Tracked Tornadic Texas Trouble
04.04.12 - A powerful weather system moved through eastern Texas and dropped at least 15 tornadoes in the Dallas suburbs. This animation of GOES-13 satellite data shows the storms.
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Q&A: Studying How Debris Influences Glaciers
04.02.12 - NASA glaciologist Kimberly Casey has visited six remote glaciers around the world to study what satellites can tell us about particulate pollution on glaciers, and how these particulates impact glacier melting rates.
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Successful ATREX Launch From Wallops
03.27.12 - The first rocket was launched at 4:58 a.m. EDT and each subsequent rocket was launched 80 seconds apart with each releasing a chemical tracer.
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NASA's Hurricane Twitter Exceeds 200,000 Followers
03.27.12 - NASA's Hurricane Twitter, which posts the web site's updates, exceeded 200,000 followers recently - a landmark that just a few NASA Twitter accounts have reached.
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NASA Measures Impact of Solar Flare
03.23.12 - NASA instrument directly measures the impact of solar events on the Earth's upper atmosphere.
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NASA Awards Atmospheric Sciences Support Contract
03.26.12 - NASA has awarded a contract to Science Systems and Applications, Inc., of Lanham, Md., to provide atmospheric-sciences support services.
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NASA GRACE Data Hit Big Apple on World Water Day
03.22.12 - Premiering on New York's Times Square today to mark World Water Day: a new visualization of global groundwater depletion.
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NASA's 'Eyes on the Earth' Gets Sharper Vision
03.22.12 - NASA's Webby Award-winning Global Climate Change website has introduced a new version of its "Eyes on the Earth" interactive virtual reality visualization.
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Tackling the Global Water Challenge
03.22.12 - The U.S. Water Partnership is a public-private partnership that seeks to mobilize expertise and resources to improve water security around the world.
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NASA'S Grail MoonKam Returns First Student-Selected Lunar Images
03.22.12 - One of two NASA spacecraft orbiting the moon has beamed back the first student-requested pictures of the lunar surface from its onboard camera.
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Satellite Sees Earthquake Region in Southwestern Mexico
03.20.12 - Just after a major earthquake occurred in southwestern Mexico on March 20,2012, NASA produced a satellite view of the region from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite.
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NASA's New 'Earth-Now' App - Your World, Unplugged
03.19.12 - A free, new iPhone app from NASA literally puts the whole world in the palm of your hands.
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At 10, GRACE Continues Defying, and Defining, Gravity
03.16.12 - A decade after launch, NASA’s GRACE space twins continue their orbital waltz, producing amazing science.
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At 10, GRACE Continues Defying, and Defining, Gravity
03.16.12 - A decade after launch, NASA’s GRACE space twins continue their orbital waltz, producing amazing science.
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How 2012 Snow Stacks Up
03.14.12 - The relatively mild winter of 2012 has many people asking, "Where's the snow?" These maps show the answer.
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NASA Plans Airborne Scientific Study in Southeast Asia
3.13.12 - Researchers will probe the Southeast Asian atmosphere at a time when weather systems and air pollution pump chemicals and particles high into the air.
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Discovery Sheds New Light on Wandering Continents
03.22.12 - A layer of partially molten rock more than 20 miles underground isn't the only thing letting continents slide.
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NASA’s Astrobiology Research Sparks 'GreenTech' Revolution
3.09.12 - NASA’s astrobiologists study microbial life to understand how it transformed a rocky Earth into the thriving, diverse, life-sustaining planet we inhabit today. These studies of photosynthetic ‘green’ algae are creating sparks for new ‘green technologies’ on Earth and future human space exploration missions.
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What Doesn't Stay in Vegas?
03.07.12 - What happens in Vegas doesn't always stay in Vegas: Las Vegas itself has undergone a massive growth spurt over the past several years.
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Multi-Agency Satellite Begins Climate and Weather Studies
03.07.12 - NASA has completed commissioning of the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite (NPP), which is now making global environmental observations.
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NASA Studies March 3 Severe Weather Outbreak
03.07.12 - A NASA satellite used infrared and microwave "vision" to analyze the storm system that created the March 3 severe weather outbreak in the U.S.
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NASA Hosts Teleconference on Upcoming Launch of Five Rockets
03.05.12 - NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST on Wednesday, March 7, to discuss the upcoming launch of five rockets in slightly more than five minutes from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
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NASA Finds Sea Ice Driving Arctic Air Pollutants
03.01.12 - A NASA-led study finds Arctic sea ice loss may be intensifying release of bromine into the atmosphere and depositing toxic mercury in the Arctic.
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NASA Finds Sea Ice Decline Driving Rise in Arctic Air Pollutants
03.01.12 - Drastic reductions in Arctic sea ice in the last decade may be intensifying the chemical release of bromine into the atmosphere, resulting in ground-level ozone depletion and the deposit of toxic mercury in the Arctic, according to a new NASA-led study.
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NASA Awards Cooperative Agreement for Earth Science Research
03.01.12 - NASA has awarded a cooperative agreement to the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute of Sonoma, Calif., to support Earth science research at NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif.
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Watching the Planet Breathe →
02.29.12 - Scientists have come up with an entirely new way to monitor the health of Earth’s plants from space.
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Thickest Parts of Arctic Ice Melting Faster
02.29.12 - A new NASA study revealed that the oldest and thickest Arctic sea ice is disappearing at a faster rate than the younger and thinner ice at the edges of the floating ice cap that covers the Arctic Ocean.
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NASA Seeking University Participants for Summer Rocket Workshop
02.29.12 - University faculty and students are invited to join a weeklong workshop June 16-21 to learn how to build and launch a scientific experiment to space. Registration is open through May 1.
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NASA Completes GCPEx Snow Study over Canada
02.28.12 - NASA's DC-8 airborne science laboratory completes six-week Global Cold-season Precipitation Experiment mission, returns to Palmdale base.
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Aiming for an Open Window
02.23.12 - Why schedule a rocket launch for the middle of the night, or aim for a liftoff time when weather is unlikely to cooperate? The simplicity of the question belies the complexity of the answer.
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Suomi Ozone Suite Continues More Than 30 Years of Data
02.23.12 - A new satellite instrument suite is now sending back detailed information about the health of the Earth's ozone layer, the shield that protects us from harmful ultraviolet radiation.
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Meteorites Reveal Another Way to Make Life's Components
03.09.12 - Evidence that there is more than one way to make some components of life increases the likelihood that life emerged elsewhere in the Universe.
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NASA Satellite Finds Earth's Clouds are Getting Lower
02.21.12 - A new university study using data from NASA's Terra spacecraft finds Earth's clouds got about one percent lower on average during the first decade of the 2000s.
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NASA Map Sees Earth's Trees in a New Light
02.17.12 - A NASA-led science team has created an accurate, high-resolution map of the height of Earth's forests.
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New Jersey Education Consortium Hosts Live Chat with Space Station Astronauts
02.17.12 - Students and educators from Sussex County, N.J., will gather at Newton High School on Wednesday, Feb. 22, to further their space studies by speaking live with Expedition 30 Commander Dan Burbank and Flight Engineer Don Pettit aboard the International Space Station.
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The Legacy of the Megaflood
02.16.12 - The 60-mile-long Grand Coulee, the largest of the stair-step canyons in eastern Washington, gives the Channeled Scablands its character.
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Landsat Infrared Sensor Arrives at Orbital
02.14.12 - A new NASA satellite instrument that makes a quantum leap forward in detector technology has arrived at Orbital Sciences Corp. in Gilbert, Ariz.
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NASA Science Aircraft to Travel the Globe in 2012
02.13.12 - NASA's Airborne Science Program operates highly specialized aircraft that will be deployed all over the world in 2012 for Earth science missions.
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NASA Hosts Events to Celebrate 50 Years of Americans in Orbit
02.10.12 - In celebration of 50 years of Americans in orbit, NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida will host several events Feb. 17 and 18.