Chasing Sprites in Electric Skies
Paul Smith is a night-sky fanatic and photographer. His obsession is sprites: immense jolts of light that flicker high above thunderstorms. Last October, he guided NASA scientist Dr. Burcu Kosar […]
Topic: Earth
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Chasing Sprites in Electric Skies
How Do We Know Earth Is Changing?
Scientists can use new and old pictures to keep track of Earth’s changes over time. Since Earth is where we live – and it’s the only planet we know of […]
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How Do We Know Earth Is Changing?
Landsat 9: Plays Well With Others
Landsat is not the only satellite orbiting Earth and sending back data. It takes a team of data sets to get the full picture of what’s happening down on the […]
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Landsat 9: Plays Well With Others
What Is A CubeSat?
Learn the basics of CubeSats, the small spacecraft that schools, universities and institutions are designing and building to perform missions previously requiring massive, expensive satellites.
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What Is A CubeSat?
Space Place in a Snap: What Causes Sea Level Rise?
People have been measuring local sea level at certain locations along the coasts for hundreds of years. And NASA has been measuring the global sea level for almost three decades. […]
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Space Place in a Snap: What Causes Sea Level Rise?
Temperature Record 101: How We Know What We Know about Climate Change
NASA’s global temperature analysis, takes in millions of observations from instruments on weather stations, ships and ocean buoys, and Antarctic research stations, to determine how much warmer or cooler Earth […]
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Temperature Record 101: How We Know What We Know about Climate Change
The Science of Snow: Digging for Data
It takes a lot of field work in challenging conditions to gather important snow data. This is the story of NASA’s last SnowEx campaign and those who participated in it. […]
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The Science of Snow: Digging for Data
Ozone 101: What Is the Ozone Hole
Ozone 101 is the first in a series of explainer videos outlining the fundamentals of popular Earth science topics. Let’s back up to the basics and understand what caused the […]
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Ozone 101: What Is the Ozone Hole
Ocean Worlds: The Search for Life
Astrobiology, our search for life beyond Earth, is a search for planets, dwarf planets, and moons that harbor substantial liquid water. We call these places “ocean worlds.”
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Ocean Worlds: The Search for Life
NASA’s CAMP2Ex Cloud, Aerosol, and Monsoonal Processes: Philippines Experiment
The Cloud, Aerosol, and Monsoonal Processes-Philippines Experiment, or CAMP2Ex, involved collaborators from government agencies and universities across the United States, the Philippines, Japan, and Europe all working together to better […]
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