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Natural Hazards

This poster highlights NASA JPL missions that provide important inputs to research on volcanoes, fires, earthquakes,...

GPM Applications: Tropical Cyclones

Water is fundamental to life on Earth. Knowing where and how much rain and snow falls globally is vital to...

GPM Applications: Too Much Too Little

Water is fundamental to life on Earth. Knowing where and how much rain and snow falls globally is vital to...

North American Monsoon

North America experiences a yearly monsoon weather system in late summer as moisture comes up from the west coast of...

Tsunami Study Challenges Long-held Formation Theory

A new NASA study is challenging a long-held theory on how tsunamis form and offering a new method for forecasting...

GPM Sees Hurricane Matthew's Life Cycle

Hurricane Matthew dropped a lot of rain, caused flooding and deaths in the state of North Carolina. Flooding is...

TRMM at 15: The Reign of Rain

When it rains it pours, goes the saying, and for the last 15 years, the data on tropical rainfall have poured in....

NASA Studies Hurricane Edouard in HS3 Mission (2014)

NASA's Global Hawk in 2014 traveled to the middle of the Atlantic and flew over Hurricane Edouard. Remote sensing...

HS3: Cloud Physics Lidar

A short video about the Cloud Physics Lidar instrument onboard the HS3 Global Hawk aircraft.

HS3: Global Hawks Soar into Storms

During this year's Atlantic hurricane season, NASA is redoubling its efforts to probe the inner workings of...

GPM 2015: One Year of Storms

A look back at the storms captured by GPM around the world during 2015. The storms that appear in order are as...

Through Smoke and Fire, NASA Searches for Answers

NASA satellites reveal a world marked by fire: a global patchwork of flame and smoke driven by the seasons and...

NASA Captures Hurricane Harvey's Rainfall

The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory captured these images of Hurricane Harvey at 11:45 UTC...

NASA Catches Hurricanes Jose and Maria

The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission shows the rainfall distribution for two major storms churning in...

NASA Captures Hurricane Harvey's Rainfall: Visualization

The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory captured these images of Hurricane Harvey at 11:45 UTC...

SHIFT Campaign Helps NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Research Partners Study  Diverse Ecosystems

B-roll for media and public use. Above Santa Barbara County, scientists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The Window Observational Research Facility (WORF), seen in the Space Station Processing Facility, was designed and built by the Boeing Co. at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. WORF will be delivered to the International Space Station and placed in the rack position in front of the Destiny lab window, providing locations for attaching cameras, multi-spectral scanners and other instruments. WORF will support a variety of scientific and commercial experiments in areas of Earth systems and processes, global ecological changes in Earth’s biosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere and climate system, Earth resources, natural hazards, and education. After installation, it will become a permanent focal point for Earth Science research aboard the space station.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Arturo Ramierez, Charles Curley and Duke Follistein, KSC and Costa Rican researchers, carry the hazardous gas detection system AVEMS to the central of the Turrialba volcano. The Aircraft-based Volcanic Emission Mass Spectrometer determines the presence and concentration of various chemicals. It is being tested in flights over the Turrialba volcano and in the crater, sampling and analyzing fresh volcanic gases in their natural chemical state. The AVEMS system has been developed for use in the Space Shuttle program, to detect toxic gas leaks and emissions in the Shuttle’s aft compartment and the crew compartment.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Arturo Ramierez, Charles Curley and Duke Follistein, KSC and Costa Rican researchers,...

2017 Hurricanes and Aerosols Simulation

Tracking the aerosols carried on the winds let scientists see the currents in our atmosphere. This visualization...

How Do Active Volcanoes Change Clouds: Cloud Particles with Aerosols

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center scientist Andrew Sayer talks about how emissions from volcanoes can affect clouds.

What Are The Chances Of Another Katrina?

The U.S. hasn’t experienced the landfall of a Category 3 hurricane or larger since 2005, when Dennis, Katrina, Rita...

Earth Science Week: Career Spotlights: Dalia Kirschbaum

A short video profile about research physical scientist Dalia Kirschbaum, who focuses on landslide modeling as well...

NASA Follows Changing Freshwater from Space

When we look into the vastness of space, our home planet stands out in many ways. One of the most crucial is the...

Five Years of GPM Storms

On February 27, 2019, we celebrate five years in orbit for the NASA/JAXA Global Precipitation Measurement mission,...