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NASA Satellite Data shows High Altitude Clouds shifting to Earth’s Poles
Written by Ellen Gray NASA’s Earth Science News Team Washington, D.C. – A new NASA analysis of 30-years of satellite data suggests that a previously observed trend of high altitude clouds in the...
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NASA’s Portable Remote Imaging Spectrometer (PRISM) can observe Coastal...
Written by Carol Rasmussen NASA Earth Science News Team Pasadena, CA – A coastal scene with deep blue seas and a coral reef is beautiful to look at, but if you try to record the scene with a camera or...
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NASA researchers observe Arctic losing it’s older Sea Ice
Written by Maria-José Viñas NASA’s Earth Science News Team Washington, D.C. – Arctic sea ice, the vast sheath of frozen seawater floating on the Arctic Ocean and its neighboring seas, has been hit with...
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NASA reports 2015 Warm Cyclone thinned Arctic Sea Ice
Written by Maria-José Viñas NASA’s Earth Science News Team Washington, D.C. – A large cyclone that crossed the Arctic in December 2015 brought so much heat and humidity to this otherwise frigid and dry...
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NASA’s International Space Station Rapid Scatterometer instrument ends...
Written by Carol Rasmussen NASA Earth Science News Team Washington, D.C. – NASA’s International Space Station Rapid Scatterometer (ISS-RapidScat) Earth science instrument has ended operations following...
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NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland mission survey produces new data, maps of...
Written by Carol Rasmussen NASA Earth Science News Team Washington, D.C. – NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) mission has released preliminary data on the heights of Greenland coastal glaciers from...
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NASA’s Earth Science continues research from International Space Station
Written by Samson Reiny NASA Earth Science News Team Washington, D.C. – The number of instruments on the International Space Station dedicated to observing Earth to increase our understanding of our...
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NASA studies changes in Cloud Heights
Written by Carol Rasmussen NASA’s Earth Science News Team Washington, D.C. – A new analysis of 15 years of NASA satellite cloud measurements finds that clouds worldwide show no definitive trend during...
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NASA and NOAA study shows warmer weather increasing Carbon Emissions from...
Written by Ellen Gray NASA Earth Science News Team Washington, D.C. – Warmer temperatures and thawing soils may be driving an increase in emissions of carbon dioxide from Alaskan tundra to the...
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NASA’s Convective Processes Experiment (CPEX) will try to improve Weather...
Written by Carol Rasmussen NASA’s Earth Science News Team Washington, D.C. – A NASA-funded field campaign getting underway in Florida on May 25th has a real shot at improving meteorologists’ ability to...
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NASA study reveals new method of Ice Loss in Greenland
Written by Carol Rasmussen NASA Earth Science News Team Washington, D.C. – A new NASA study finds that during Greenland’s hottest summers on record, 2010 and 2012, the ice in Rink Glacier on the...
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NASA Study reveals Antarctic Glacier’s Ice Loss May Not Progress as Quickly...
Written by Carol Rasmussen NASA’s Earth Science News Team Washington, D.C. – The melt rate of West Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier is an important concern, because this glacier alone is currently...
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NASA Study shows possibility that it may be Rainier in the Future
Written by Carol Rasmussen NASA’s Earth Science News Team Washington, D.C. – A new study suggests that most global climate models may underestimate the amount of rain that will fall in Earth’s tropical...
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NASA study reveals why Clouds sometimes produce a Drizzle
Written by Carol Rasmussen NASA’s Earth Science News Team Washington, D.C. – A new NASA study shows that updrafts are more important than previously understood in determining what makes clouds produce...
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NASA Study shows influx of Warm Water accelerates melting of Antarctic Glaciers
Written by Carol Rasmussen NASA’s Earth Science News Team Washington, D.C. – A NASA study has located the Antarctic glaciers that accelerated the fastest between 2008 and 2014 and finds that the most...
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NASA reports newest Greenland Maps Show more Glaciers at Risk of Accelerated...
Written by Carol Rasmussen NASA’s Earth Science News Team Washington, D.C. – New maps of Greenland’s coastal seafloor and bedrock beneath its massive ice sheet show that two to four times as many...
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NASA Study finds evidence of Geothermal Heat Source under West Antarctica
Written by Carol Rasmussen NASA’s Earth Science News Team Washington, D.C. – A new NASA study adds evidence that a geothermal heat source called a mantle plume lies deep below Antarctica’s Marie Byrd...
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NASA to test CubeSat Weather Satellite
Written by Samson Reiny NASA’s Earth Science News Team Washington, D.C. – Behind every weather forecast—from your local, five-day prediction to a late-breaking hurricane track update—are the satellites...
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NASA’s studying of Earth will help to discover Life on another Planet
Written by Carol Rasmussen NASA’s Earth Science News Team Washington, D.C. – As a young scientist, Tony del Genio of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City met Clyde Tombaugh, the...
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NASA Survey produces Carbon Map of Congo’s Forest
Written by Ellen Gray NASA’s Earth Science News Team Washington, D.C. – The equivalent of 85 billion tons of carbon dioxide — a huge amount equal to three-quarters of the carbon stored in forests...
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