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Photo of high-altitude ice clouds as seen from the International Space Station in 2008.

NASA Mission to Study Ice Clouds, Help Observe Our Dynamic Atmosphere

05.22.2023
NASA has selected a new mission to help humanity better understand Earth’s dynamic atmosphere – specifically, ice clouds that form at high altitudes throughout tropical and sub-tropical regions. The PolSIR instrument – short for Polarized Submillimeter Ice-cloud Radiometer – will study such ice clouds to determine how and why they change throughout
Maestro Piotr Gajewski conducts the National Philharmonic in the world premier performance of Henry Dehlinger’s “Cosmic Cycles,” Thursday, May 11, 2023, at Capital One Hall in Tysons, Va. “Cosmic Cycles: A Space Symphony” is a collaboration between composer Henry Dehlinger, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, and the National Philharmonic that features a fusion of music and video in seven multimedia works on the Sun, Earth, Moon, Planets, and Cosmos. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA Goddard, National Philharmonic Explore Cosmos Through Imagery, Music Collaboration

05.15.2023
Awe-inspiring NASA visuals combined with the might of a live symphonic orchestra last week in “Cosmic Cycles,” a multimedia collaboration among the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, the National Philharmonic, and composer Henry Dehlinger.
This image, acquired on April 8, 2011, with the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instruments on NASA’s Terra satellite, shows Saharan dust over the Bay of Biscay.

How Desert Dust Nourishes the Growth of Phytoplankton at Sea

05.10.2023
After a long-distance delivery, nutrients in desert dust nourish life in the ocean.
Photo of Vice President Harris and South Korea President Yoon shaking hands at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

VP Harris, South Korea President Yoon Visit NASA Goddard

04.26.2023
Vice President Kamala Harris and Republic of Korea (ROK) President Yoon Suk Yeol saw firsthand how NASA studies climate change during a visit to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, this afternoon.
Photo of VP Harris at GSFC in 2021

VP Harris, South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol to Visit NASA Goddard

04.24.2023
Vice President Kamala Harris and Republic of Korea (ROK) President Yoon Suk Yeol will visit NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, on Tuesday, April 25, to see firsthand the agency’s climate change work. NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy and Goddard Center Director Makenzie Lystrup will join them on tour.
Satellite image of burn pit

NASA Data Helps Track Veterans’ Exposure to Air Pollution

04.24.2023
Researchers with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) are using NASA Earth observations of smoke and other air pollution to study the health impacts on veterans who were deployed to Afghanistan, Iraq, and other areas of Southwest Asia in the years after September 11, 2001.
Image of part of Earth from space

NASA Celebrates Earth Day with Earth Science in Action

04.12.2023
This Earth Day, you can join us in person and online to see how our observations help us monitor the planet’s vital signs and share them with scientists and citizens around the world.
Collage of 6 NASA climate-related images

NASA Releases Agency Climate Strategy

03.29.2023
NASA has been working to better understand our home planet from the unique vantage point of space since the first TIROS satellites launched in the 1960s. Today, with more than two dozen Earth-observing satellites and instruments, it’s clearer than ever that our planet is an interconnected system.
Satellite image of a wall of dust from the Gobi Desert approaching northeastern China and the Beijing metropolitan area on March 10, 2023

How Dust Affects the World’s Health

03.17.2023
NASA research finds that a combination of windblown dust and human-caused particle pollution was associated with nearly 3 million premature deaths in 2019.
Cover of Spinoff 2023

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.
Natural-color Aqua satellite image of lengthy cavum spanning part of southeastern France on January 14, 2023

When Clouds Cave

01.18.2023
When airplanes pass through clouds with supercooled water droplets, they can leave distinctive holes in their wake.
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.
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.
Photo of Spandan Das

Spandan Das: Self-Taught Machine Learning Intern, NCCS User, College Student, and Published Author

11.30.2022
In two NASA summer internships, Carnegie Mellon University computer science major Spandan Das has harnessed NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) compute power to build, train, and test machine learning models to help NASA develop new ways to detect Earth's precipitation.
Aqua satellite image of plumes of silt and sand blowing from the Copper River Delta and over the Gulf of Alaska.

Dusty Copper River Delta

11.22.2022
Plumes from this part of Alaska happen in autumn when winds are strong, water levels are low, and snow has not yet blanketed the floodplain.
Image of FY21 NASA Economic Report

NASA’s Economic Benefit Reaches All 50 States

10.27.2022
NASA released the results of its second agencywide economic impact report on Thursday, demonstrating how its Moon to Mars activities, investments in climate change research and technology, as well as other work generated more than $71.2 billion in total economic output during fiscal year 2021.
Suomi NPP satellite image of ship tracks

NASA Study Finds Evidence That Fuel Regulation Reduced Air Pollution from Shipping

10.18.2022
A global standard limiting sulfur in ship fuel reduced artificial “ship track” clouds to record-low levels in 2020. Pandemic-related disruptions played a secondary role.
Terra satellite image of smoke from western fires over Pugent Sound and Pacific Ocean

Western Smoke Rides the Winds

09.13.2022
Smoke from fires in Washington and Oregon blanketed Puget Sound and wafted out over the Pacific Ocean.
Nighttime view of Hurricane Ida making landfall in Louisiana on August 30, 2021, as seen by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite

Five Questions to Help You Understand Hurricanes and Climate Change

06.01.2022
What’s the recipe for hurricane formation, and how is the behavior of these storms changing as Earth’s long-term warming trend continues? NASA research answers these questions to help you understand how excess heat in Earth’s oceans is changing the way hurricanes form and evolve.
Satellite image of Hurricane Agatha

Hurricane Agatha Strikes Mexico

06.01.2022
In a potent start to the eastern Pacific hurricane season, the May storm brought torrential rain and fierce winds to Mexico’s Pacific Coast.
Map of trends in aerosols since 2002 as measured by Terra’s MODIS

How Aerosols Helped Untangle Carbon Monoxide Trends

05.27.2022
Short-lived aerosols from smoke helped researchers pinpoint some of the key processes drawing levels of carbon monoxide down.
Global map of anomalies in carbon monoxide column residuals

A Global Decline in Carbon Monoxide

05.26.2022
The widespread adoption of cleaner-burning technologies and declines in fire activity over the past two decades has drawn down global levels of the pollutant.
Employees from the JPSS and GOES-R programs pose for a group photo

JPSS and GOES-R Exhibit Ribbon Cutting

05.23.2022
On May 19, 2022, the Goddard Visitor Center held a ribbon cutting ceremony for a new exhibit by the JPSS and GOES-R Series programs. Located on the outer edge of the Rocket Garden, the exhibit features an abstract kinetic sculpture with three mirrored orbs, representing the Sun, Earth and the satellites, that are activated by the wind.
Earth Day 2022 Poster image

Join NASA's Earth Day Event

04.22.2022
Join us in person or virtually. Registration is open for virtual events.

The iconic “Earthrise” image of Earth appearing over the Moon’s horizon as seen from the Apollo 8 spacecraft, taken during a live broadcast with NASA astronauts from the lunar orbit on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 1968.

NASA Celebrates Earth Day with Every #NASAEarthling

04.18.2022
NASA’s space exploration continues to inspire us to be better stewards of our planet and Earth Day is a great time to celebrate what we’ve done and can do to keep Earth everyone’s favorite planet in the universe.

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