Earth Observation
New U.S. Climate Map Shows Temperature Changes In HD. How To Prepare?
If you're interested to see how warm your neighborhood will look like at 2090, here's a chance. There's new data…
Massive ‘Grand Canyon’ Found Hidden Beneath Greenland’s Ice
There’s a “Chuck Norris fact” that says Chuck once went skydiving but promised never to do it again, saying one…
Stunning Aerial Tour of the Arctic
Enjoy this tour of the Arctic and Greenland, courtesy of the pilots of IceBridge, a six-year NASA mission to survey…
Astronauts Wax Poetic About Seeing Earth from Space
Astronauts have tried to explain the view of Earth from space, with many saying that there just aren't the words…
Watch Sprite Lightning Flash at 10,000 frames Per Second
Mysterious red sprite lightning is intriguing: sprites occur only at high altitudes above thunderstorms, only last for a thousandth of…
Stunning Photo from Space: Moon Rising Amid Noctilucent Clouds
Recently, Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano spent a "night flight" in the Cupola of the International Space Station in hopes of…
This Is What Leaving Earth Behind Really Looks Like
Prepare yourself for some goosebumps. The Mercury spacecraft MESSENGER took this series of images of Earth eight years ago today…
30 Years of City Growth Seen From Space
Since the launch of its first satellite in 1972, the eight NASA/USGS Landsat satellites have made the longest continuous observations…
Could Cassini See You On “The Day The Earth Smiled?”
So along with the rest of the world, you smiled. You waved. You went outside on July 19, wherever you…
Space Debris: A Tale of Two Satellites
It’s sometimes tough being a satellite in Earth orbit these days. An interesting commentary came our way recently via NASA’s…