Storms and a lunar eclipse are a few of the phenomena visible in animations of Earth’s full disk.
Published Dec 16, 2015
Fall storms often hinder ecological research in the vicinity of the North Atlantic, but in 2015, scientists made observations from ship, aircraft, and satellite.
Published Dec 10, 2015
Before there was a Blue Marble photograph or composite image of Earth, there was TIROS IX.
Published Apr 22, 2015
The season is a time of great change, turbulence, and productivity in northern waters.
Published Mar 9, 2020
The ocean has fronts and vortices that stir up nutrients and promote blooms of phytoplankton and algae.
Published May 26, 2015
Fifty years ago, NASA launched the first of seven satellites that revolutionized how we study weather, the atmosphere, and other Earth systems.
Published Oct 12, 2014Image of the Day Atmosphere Water Severe Storms Remote Sensing
Sixteen operating satellites monitor Earth. Four more are scheduled to launch in 2014.
Published Jul 5, 2013
July 2019 brought the latest display of a phytoplankton bloom that occurs every year in the North Atlantic Ocean.
Published Jul 15, 2019
From one million miles away, the DSCOVR satellite returned its first view of the entire sunlit side of Earth.
Published Jul 21, 2015
The waters off of Newfoundland were colored by coccolithophore blooms for two months.
Published Sep 21, 2020
Twenty years ago this month, astronauts on the space shuttle Discovery used the spacecraft's robotic arm to launch the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite into orbit around the Earth.
Published Sep 24, 2011
The Suomi NPP satellite captured a glimpse of the northern lights over North America.
Published Apr 24, 2018
In March 2017, phytoplankton bloomed off the coast of Tunisia.
Published Mar 25, 2017
When the Apollo 11 astronauts left the surface of the Moon on July 21, 1969, they brought home samples of solar wind particles, lunar rocks and dirt, and a big helping of perspective.
Published Jul 20, 2019
Scientists show that a virus was responsible for the collapse of a large coccolithophore bloom in the North Atlantic.
Published Nov 26, 2014
