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Visualization showing water features on New York’s Long Island – shown as bright pink splotches. Purple, yellow, green, and dark blue shades represent different land elevations, while the surrounding ocean is a lighter blue. The data was collected on Jan. 21, 2023, by SWOT’s KaRIn instrument.

Joint NASA, CNES Water-Tracking Satellite Reveals First Stunning Views

03.24.2023
The international Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission – led by NASA and the French space agency Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES) – has sent back some of its first glimpses of water on the planet’s surface, showing ocean currents like the Gulf Stream in unprecedented detail.
Global map depicting the extremes of the water cycle over a twenty-year period (2002-2021) based on observations from the GRACE and GRACE-FO satellites

Warming Makes Droughts, Extreme Wet Events More Frequent, Intense

03.13.2023
Scientists have predicted that droughts, floods will become more frequent and severe as our planet warms and climate changes, but measuring this on regional scales has proven difficult.
False-color Terra satellite image of Australia's Barkly region near Tennant Creek and Newcastle Waters

Floods Swamp Australia’s Northern Territory

03.11.2023
Days of rain have swollen rivers and lakes in the sparsely populated territory.
Landsat 9 false-color satellite image of flooded rice fields in Jefferson Davis Parish in southwestern Louisiana on February 3, 2023.

Flooded Rice Fields in Louisiana

03.10.2023
The low-lying alluvial plain of the Mississippi River Valley is home to much of the nation’s rice farms.
Landsat 8 satellite image of landslides in the coastal municipality of São Sebastião, Brazil

Landslides in São Paulo, Brazil

03.04.2023
After torrential rains, satellite images revealed widespread landslides in the Brazilian state’s coastal municipality of São Sebastião.
Landsat 9 satellite image of flooded farmland and communities along the Orontes River

Flooding Along the Orontes River

02.25.2023
Some towns and farmland were flooded after powerful earthquakes and heavy rains struck areas of Türkiye and Syria.
Landsat 9 satellite image of landslide areas in Türkiye

Landslides in Türkiye

02.24.2023
Scientists are using satellite images to locate landslides following the powerful earthquakes that struck in early February.
Photo of Peyman Abbaszadeh

Peyman Abbaszadeh: Hydrology and Hope for the Future

02.14.2023
Peyman Abbaszadeh works with researchers around the world to model and estimate the ways in which water flows above and below the surface of the Earth.
Section of damage proxy map of earthquake impact in parts of Turkey and Syria

NASA Scientists Help with Turkey, Syria Earthquake Response

02.14.2023
NASA’s Earth Applied Sciences Disasters program area is coordinating with stakeholders, providing maps, data and scientific expertise to aid ongoing response efforts and risk assessments.
Landsat 9 satellite image of Shasta Lake

Reservoirs Rise, but Groundwater Woes Remain

02.13.2023
The water delivered by winter storms in 2022-2023 is likely insufficient to reverse the longer-term depletion of California’s groundwater.
Terra satellite natural-color image of flooding along Madagascar's northwest coast

Cheneso Floods Madagascar

02.01.2023
Heavy rain from the tropical cyclone triggered flash floods and landslides along the island nation’s northwestern coast.
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.
Terra satellite image of Lake Albert

Shrinking Lake Abert

01.27.2023
As the lake in southern Oregon dries up, the remaining water is becoming too salty to support key food sources for birds.
False-color Terra satellite image of flooding in Queensland

Floodwater Reaches Australia’s Channel Country

01.24.2023
After several weeks of heavy rainfall in northern Queensland, the water has worked its way south.
Map of surface soil moisture in the western United States on January 9, 2023, as measured by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) satellites

Storms Soak California

01.12.2023
Unrelenting storms have inundated the state, delivering soil-saturating rain.
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 SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching with SWOT spacecraft onboard

SWOT Launches on Mission to Study Earth's Water

12.16.2022
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches with the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) spacecraft onboard, Friday, Dec. 16, 2022, from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
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.
Artist image of SWOT above Earth's surface

Latest International Water Satellite Packs an Engineering Punch

12.12.2022
Set for a Thursday, Dec. 15 launch, the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite promises to provide an extraordinary accounting of water over much of Earth’s surface.
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 satellite image of a portion of the Yukon River in Alaska

Water Mission to Gauge Alaskan Rivers on Front Lines of Climate Change

12.08.2022
While Alaska straddles the Arctic Circle and is covered by vast expanses of frozen land, the state also has a lot of liquid water. In fact, Alaska holds about 40% of U.S. surface water resources.
Image of the global precipitation variation from Integrated Multi-satellite Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) data, from Nov. 20, 2022.

NASA Satellite Precipitation Data Joins the Air Force

11.22.2022
For the first time, the Air Force meteorology unit has integrated the Integrated Multi-satellite Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) algorithm into its operational weather forecasts and advisories.
False-color Terra satellite image of flooding in Australia

More Flooding in Australia’s Soggy Southeast

11.21.2022
After an extremely wet October, storms in November 2022 have added to ongoing flooding across New South Wales and Victoria.
Artist image of SWOT in orbit

5 Things to Know About How SWOT Will Look at the World’s Water

11.15.2022
On Dec. 12, NASA will launch the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite into Earth orbit from The international Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission will provide high-definition data on the salt- and fresh water on Earth’s surface.
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.

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