What Is the Greenhouse Effect?
Earth is a comfortable place for living things. It’s just the right temperatures for plants and animals – including humans – to thrive. Why is Earth so special?
Topic: Earth
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What Is the Greenhouse Effect?
Why Observe: Tree Height
“Why Observe?: Tree Height” explores surface height measurement missions and the role that citizen science can play within the scientific community.
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Why Observe: Tree Height
Why Observe: Land Cover
Why do scientists use land cover observations from satellites, and why do they need help from citizen scientists? Find out the answer to these questions in Why Observe?: Land Cover […]
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Why Observe: Land Cover
NASA’s Earth Minute: Usual Suspects
Before the Industrial Revolution, Earth’s climate changed due to natural events such as volcanic activity and solar energy variations. These natural events still contribute to climate change today, but their […]
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NASA’s Earth Minute: Usual Suspects
NASA’s Earth Minute: Why Does NASA Study Earth?
Earth is a complex, dynamic system we do not fully understand. To learn more about it, NASA, as the agency with access to space, was tasked with launching the first […]
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NASA’s Earth Minute: Why Does NASA Study Earth?
NASA’s Earth Minute: Mission to Earth
NASA doesn’t just explore outer space! Since 1959, with the launch of the first weather satellite, NASA has been studying our home planet on a global scale. NASA monitors Earth’s […]
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NASA’s Earth Minute: Mission to Earth
NASA’s Earth Minute: Earth Has a Fever
Earth’s average temperature has risen over 1º F in the past century. It is projected to rise an additional 3º to 10º over the next 100 years. Data from NASA’s […]
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NASA’s Earth Minute: Earth Has a Fever
NASA’s Earth Minute: Sea Level Rise
For over 20 years NASA has been tracking the global surface topography of the ocean in order to understand the important role it plays in our daily lives. Climate change […]
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NASA’s Earth Minute: Sea Level Rise
NASA’s Earth Minute: My Name is Aerosol
Aerosols are minute solid and liquid particles suspended in the atmosphere. Examples include desert dust, sea salt from ocean spray, volcanic ash, smoke from wildfires and emissions from the burning […]
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NASA’s Earth Minute: My Name is Aerosol
NASA’s Earth Minute: Scale in the Sky
The force of gravity not only keeps us from floating away, it lets NASA study Earth’s water & ice from space. Using a pair of twin satellites named GRACE, we […]
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NASA’s Earth Minute: Scale in the Sky
NASA’s Earth Minute: Cloudy Forecast
Clouds are complicated when it comes to climate science, as they both warm and cool Earth. NASA is studying these atmospheric masses of condensed water vapor with satellites and aircraft.
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NASA’s Earth Minute: Cloudy Forecast
NASA’s Earth Minute: Blowin’ in the Wind
Since 1978, NASA has been monitoring ocean winds via scatterometry, the data of which has improved weather and hurricane forecasts and helped us better understand global climate patterns. Knowing which […]
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