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NASA is introducing the Earth System Observatory – an array of satellites, instruments and missions that are going...
Artist rendering of NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory OCO-2, one of five new NASA Earth science missions set to...
This frame from a movie shows the asteroid 2012 DA14 flying safely by Earth, as seen by the Gingin Observatory in...
Kennedy Space Center Director Jim Kennedy invites viewers to submit their questions about the STEREO mission to the...
Global average carbon dioxide concentrations as seen by NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 mission, June 1-15,...
On Sept. 13, 2015, as NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, kept up its constant watch on the sun, its view was...
NASA's ARIA team, in collaboration with the Earth Observatory of Singapore, used satellite data to map the extent of...
On Sept. 16, 2015, a magnitude 8.3 earthquake struck near the coast of central Chile along the boundary of the Nazca...
Parked in space a million miles from Earth, the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) onboard the Deep Space...
The Solar Dynamics Observatory SDO spacecraft, shown above the Earth as it faces toward the Sun. SDO is designed to...
In a global experiment in exoplanet observation, the K2 mission and Earth-based observatories on six continents will...
ESA Herschel Space Observatory captured asteroid Apophis in its field of view during the approach to Earth on Jan. 5...
Mt. Dana and Dana Plateau in the Tuolumne River Basin within Yosemite National Park, Calif., as seen out the window...
A natural color image of Mt. Lyell, the highest point in the Tuolumne River Basin top image is compared with a...
Spatial distribution of snow water equivalent across the Tuolumne River Basin from April 10 to June 1, 2013 as...
NASA Airborne Snow Observatory measurements of snow water equivalent top image and snow albedo, or reflectivity...
This image shows the Parkes telescope in Australia, part of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research...
NASA Airborne Snow Observatory is two instruments combined that provides information on every patch of snow,...
On Feb. 11, 2010, NASA launched an unprecedented solar observatory into space. The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)...
Backdropped against the Earth's surface, the Gamma Ray Observatory (GRO) with its solar array (SA) panels deployed...
NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) sits onboard NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR)...
Artist rendering of NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory OCO-2, one of five new NASA Earth science missions set to...
This image is a blinking of two 14-minute exposures of NASA Dawn spacecraft from 600,000 miles from Earth. Bill...
Using NASA Herschel Space Observatory, astronomers have discovered that comet Hartley 2 possesses a ratio of heavy...