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NASA’s favorite (habitable) planet. 🌎💚 Studying Earth from ground to orbit.
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This planet is haunted! 👻
Ghosts of volcanoes, lakes & more are visible in echoes seen from space. Explore places on our planet haunted by the past, like the Manicouagan Crater, formed 214 million years ago when a 3-mile wide asteroid struck Canada.
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Two scientists. One unforgettable view of our planet.
What's it like to see the Artemis II Earthrise image through the eyes of a lunar scientist? How about an oceanographer? Jacob Richardson & Ivona Cetinic are here to tell us.
Explore Artemis II data:
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What’s under the Greenland Ice Sheet? 🧊
This new map from @NASA scientists and others shows the land beneath the ice, linking hundreds of valleys that previous maps missed or left fragmented.
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An island on the move! In July 2026, a forested island the size of 2 football fields appeared in Canada’s Williston Reservoir and then vanished. 🏝️
See how scientists used Landsat and Sentinel satellite data to track its 19-mile journey! 🛰️
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Albedo keeps us cool — literally!
Parts of Earth with high albedo, like sea ice or clouds, reflect sunlight, which helps regulate Earth’s temperature.
Let's reflect...
Albedo is a measure of how much light and heat a surface reflects. Lighter objects tend to have higher albedo, and darker objects have lower. This reflectivity plays an important role in studying the makeup of the surface of bodies like the Moon.
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For the first time in nearly five centuries, Krasheninnikov erupted. 🌋
The @NASA/@ISRO NISAR satellite captured lava filling its caldera and overflowing into a wider crater, showing how NISAR can repeatedly monitor volcanoes and other natural hazards in sharp detail.
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If Earth were a hard marble, its center of mass would stay in the middle – but in reality, the center shifts as seasons move water, ice, and air around the planet. NASA scientists developed a new way to track these motions more precisely, helping improve mapping and navigation.
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The ocean has a hidden garden of phytoplankton.
You just need to know how to see it, and NASA’s PACE mission has the tools! 🌊🛰️
With PACE, scientists can identify types of phytoplankton in the water, which each play a different role in ocean ecosystems.
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How will El Niño affect hurricanes? NASA satellites are helping improve predictions. 🌀
NASA and European Sentinel-6 satellites measure sea level height to track changes in ocean heat and better understand shifts in hurricane patterns. The data can help guide disaster response.
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Do you recognize this area? If so, you might be a Star Trek fan! 🖖
This @NASA satellite image shows Vasquez Rocks Natural Area in Southern California. Multiple Star Trek scenes were filmed here, including an iconic battle between Captain James T. Kirk and a reptilian alien.
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NASA studies air pollution around the world to better understand what’s in the air and what it can mean for human health. #CleanAirDay#
Clean air matters for everyone. 🌎 With missions like TEMPO, NASA helps track air quality across North America, helping communities plan for a healthier future. #CleanAirDay#
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From Texas to Maine, coastal wetlands and marshes are releasing over 1.45 billion pounds of carbon into the ocean each year.
The finding comes from a study analyzing Landsat images and @USGS elevation data to track marsh loss in the area from 1985-2022.
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A partial lunar eclipse will pass over the Americas—and parts of Europe and Africa—tomorrow night! It will reach its peak around 12:12am ET (0412 UTC) on Thursday, Aug. 28.
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It’s #NationalParkWeek#! ⛰️🥾🌲
Can you identify these @NatlParkService parks from space?
Check out these satellite images and drop your guesses in the comments. Bonus points if you’ve visited or can identify any iconic landmarks!
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For a few million years, Earth may have been left out in the cold — literally.
New NASA research shows the Sun's protective bubble has shrunk smaller than Earth's orbit at least three times in the past 10 million years, possibly triggering ancient ice ages. 🌍
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A series of heat waves broke records and is taking a toll in Europe this summer.
This animation shows the daily max surface air temperature across Western Europe from May 1 to Aug. 19, 2026 using the @NASAGoddard GEOS model.
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A photo of the world for World Photography Day 🌍📷
In April 2026, Artemis II flew around the Moon and back. On the way there, astronaut Reid Wiseman captured this full disk photograph of Earth at nighttime.
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NASA’s PREFIRE satellites have now collected two full years of data showing how surface temperatures change at Earth’s poles. Tracking these changes helps scientists better understand how energy moves into and out of the Earth system.
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This graphic shows the path of totality for the August 12 eclipse. Totality will begin around 8:30pm in Spain & 5:45pm in Iceland (local times).
Learn how to safely view the eclipse:
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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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