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NASA Spinoffs Bolster Climate Resilience, Improve Medical Care, More

01.31.2023
The latest edition of NASA’s Spinoff publication features dozens of new commercialized technologies that use the agency’s technology, research, and/or expertise to benefit people around the globe. It also includes a section highlighting technologies of tomorrow.
Farmer in his field

NCCS Explore/ADAPT Science Cloud Enables Machine Learning-Based Crop Type and Yield Estimates in Burkina Faso, West Africa

01.25.2023
The NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) Explore/ADAPT Science Cloud enabled NASA Goddard Space Flight Center scientists and collaborators to leverage machine learning models and satellite data to predict crop type and yields in Burkina Faso, West Africa.
Landsat 8 satellite image of a whiting event off the west coast of Great Bahama Bank

Mysteries Remain About Bahama Whiting Events

01.23.2023
Researchers used satellite imagery to reveal where and when the discolored patches of water appeared between 2003 and 2020 and found a puzzling temporary increase in events in some areas.
Landsat 8 satellite image of Kilauea on January 11, 2023

Kilauea Glows

01.17.2023
After three weeks of rest, lava started flowing again on Kilauea’s summit.
Landsat 8 satellite image of Kaitoku

Kaitoku Says Hello

01.14.2023
Swirls of discolored water are signs of activity from the underwater volcano.
Landsat 9 satellite image of peat bogs in central Ireland, near Ballyforan

Ireland’s Cutaway Peatlands

01.03.2023
Peatlands have been mined in Ireland for centuries, but concern for climate is changing how they are managed.
CISTO Chief and SMCE Government Manager Dr. Daniel Duffy presenting in front of the NASA hyperwall during Supercomputing 2022

NASA’s SMCE Team Helps Scientists Develop Collaborative Cloud Computing Projects

12.21.2022
An agile team of computer experts at NASA Goddard helps scientists collaborate and develop Open Science projects in astrophysics, Earth science, biology, and heliophysics by creating the SMCE managed cloud environment for science.
Artist concept of Landsat Next satellite coverage of Earth

Next up to Continue NASA/USGS’s Landsat Legacy

12.20.2022
With a trio of smaller satellites that can each detect 26 wavelengths of light and thermal energy, the Landsat Next mission is expected to look very different from its predecessors that have been observing Earth for 50 years.
Map of rainfall anomalies in the October-November-December 2022 season so far from the CHC early estimates for Horn of Africa.

Worst Drought on Record Parches Horn of Africa

12.14.2022
The most severe drought in 70 years of record keeping threatens the Horn of Africa with famine.
Landsat 9 satellite image of erupting Mauna Loa volcano

Living the Lava Life on Mauna Loa

12.12.2022
A small research station in Hawaii where analog astronauts simulate living and working on the Moon or Mars is out of harm’s way after a lava flow appeared to be headed in its direction.
Image of moon over Earth's atmosphere

NASA Press Events at 2022 Fall AGU Meeting

12.08.2022
NASA researchers will be presenting findings on Earth and space sciences Dec.12-16 at the American Geophysical Union's 2022 Fall meeting, being held virtually and in Chicago this year.
Landsat 9 satellite image of Yangtze River Delta

NASA Scientists Map Global Salt Marsh Losses and Their Carbon Impact

12.07.2022
Earth has lost 561 square miles of salt marshes over the past 20 years, according to a new NASA-led study of the first consistent global accounting of salt marsh locations and changes.
Landsat 9 natural-color image of a volcanic plume streaming from Semeru

A Burst of Activity at Mount Semeru

12.06.2022
Intense explosions at the summit sent avalanches of ash and mud racing down the southeastern flank of the Indonesian volcano.
Suomi NPP satellite image of fires in northwest Argentina

Fires in Northwest Argentina

12.02.2022
Forests are burning after being primed by warm temperatures and a lack of rain.
Landsat 8 satellite image of ash from Sangay volcano eruption

A Line of Ash from Sangay

11.26.2022
An ongoing eruption blankets cities and farmland near the volcano with layers of ash.
Landsat 8 natural-color image of farmland around Peoria, Illinois

From Patches to Pies, Illinois Knows Pumpk

11.25.2022
Much of the canned pumpkin that ends up in Thanksgiving pies and soups came from Central Illinois.
Cranberry bogs in Plymouth County are visible in this natural-color image by Landsat 9

Cranberry Bogs in Plymouth County

11.24.2022
Massachusetts has a long-standing relationship with one of Thanksgiving’s iconic foods—the cranberry.
Landsat 9 natural-color image of snow blanketing the central Sierras, including Yosemite National Park

Snow Blankets Yosemite National Park

11.15.2022
The park and surrounding areas of the Central Sierra Nevada turned white after the season’s first significant winter storm.
Terra satellite natural-color image of the Inner Niger Delta

Seasonal Greening of the Inner Niger Delta

11.14.2022
A burst of green overtakes the normally brown landscape of central Mali as vegetation takes advantage of the seasonal inflow of water.
Natural-color Aqua satellite image of fires in Kentucky, West Virginia, and Ohio

Autumn Fires in Central Appalachia

11.12.2022
Dry autumn conditions and high winds spurred numerous wildland fires in Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia in November 2022.
Landsat 8 natural-color satellite image showing the tornado damage track in Red River County, Texas.

Tornado Damage in Texas

11.09.2022
The twister tore roofs off homes and flattened forests as winds raged to speeds of 170 miles per hour.
Landsat 8 natural-color satellite image of Vjosa River

Flowing Free Through Albania

11.08.2022
Though there are more than one million dams and other barriers on Europe’s rivers, little disrupts the natural flow of the Vjosa River.
Landsat 9 satellite image of Lake Torrens

Lake Torrens is a Lake Again

11.07.2022
In October 2022, a substantial amount of water returned to this ephemeral lake in South Australia.
Smoke, cloud wakes, and a phytoplankton bloom formed a mosaic of natural phenomena off the coast of central Chile in this Aqua satellite natural-color image

An Oceanic and Atmospheric Potpourri

11.05.2022
Smoke, cloud wakes, and an abundance of phytoplankton off the coast of Chile punctuate this spring scene.
Photo of Big Trail Lake near Fairbanks, Alaska

NASA Fieldwork Studies Signs of Climate Change in Arctic, Boreal Regions

11.02.2022
In the summer of 2022, the team investigated permafrost thaw, methane emissions from lakes, and the effects of wildfires in Alaska and northwestern Canada.

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