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Extremely hot and dry conditions in June and July enabled large fires to break out in Europe.
Spain saw its largest fire on record in Ávila, as shown in this Landsat 9 false color image. Unburned vegetation is light green and burned areas appear brown.
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Best interns on Earth! 🫶🌎
Whether they’re launching weather balloons, flying on a NASA aircraft, or taking measurements in the field, @NASAInterns help us learn more about the planet we call home.
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Jimothy runs this city. 🦝
This astronaut photograph, taken from the @Space_Station, shows Seattle, Washington.
The iconic raccoon, nicknamed Jimothy, has been spotted in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood (top middle in this image).
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Happy 250th, America! 🇺🇸
Red (Mars), white (Moon), and blue (Earth) brought to you by the solar system.
What’s going on here? 🤔
The poles are the only places ICESat-2 can’t gather data. Instead, the satellite’s orbit is designed so that it can better study the edges of the polar ice sheets and sea ice, where much of the change is happening.
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Recently, two powerful earthquakes struck Venezuela.
NASA satellites captured imagery and data that are supporting response efforts. This NISAR map shows how the quakes shifted the land surface. Explore more:
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Tonight's full Moon has an atmosphere too — just extraordinarily thin.
With about a quadrillion times fewer molecules in a given space than Earth's, it’s so sparse that space rocks strike the surface directly instead of burning up!
📸 NASA/Bill Dunford
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Something sweet is on the rise! 🍓🌕
The Strawberry Moon will light up the night sky tonight, reaching peak illumination in late afternoon. The best time to see it will be shortly after sunset.
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A NASA-sponsored team developed an open-source tool that uses machine learning to speed up identification of potential flash floods, delivering near real-time insights to help communities respond faster.
Explore how this data-driven tech tracks extreme weather and produces forecasts in as little as 15 minutes:
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Seems like everyone’s watching Fiji right now… 👀🏝️
Even @NASA satellites!
NASA has a fleet of more than 20 satellites that study our home planet and capture images — including this one of the islands of Fiji, which are home to a certain iconic villa.
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Happy summer solstice ☀️
Today marks the start of astronomical summer in the Northern Hemisphere and the longest stretch of daylight. It’s the day the Northern hemisphere is most tilted toward the Sun.
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NASA has selected the DAPHNE mission to study how Earth’s atmosphere drives space weather, helping improve predictions that protect tech and astronauts. Twin satellites will launch no earlier than 2029. More:
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Watch the colors change.
This timelapse of Landsat and Sentinel-2 satellite images shows the evaporation process at Chile’s Salar de Atacama, the country's largest salt flat and a major source of the global lithium supply.
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Even from afar, wildfires are creating unhealthy air.
A NASA-supported study found wildfires have worsened ground-level ozone, or smog, across the U.S., with larger changes in the West and Midwest. Wildfires can increase surface ozone thousands of miles away from active fires.
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These tiny birds follow their noses to find prey – even if it leads them into an energy-sapping crosswind.
The finding comes from a @NASA-funded study that tracked Mediterranean storm petrels with lightweight GPS sensors. 🐦⬛
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Need some motivation to get through this Monday? Earth has you covered. 🌎
These motivational posters feature images from @NASA satellites and @ISS astronauts, along with words of wisdom inspired by our own home planet.
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NASA’s Artemis program has its eyes on the Moon—but so does Landsat! 🌕
Once a month, the Landsat satellites turn to look at the Moon instead of Earth. Observing the Moon helps calibrate the satellites’ instruments, allowing Landsat to consistently and reliably study our planet.
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