Taking Stock of 2014 Fire Emissions

Taking Stock of 2014 Fire Emissions

On a typical day in August, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometers (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites detect approximately 10,000 active fires, as well as huge swaths of freshly charred land in ecosystems ranging from boreal forests to savanna to tropical forests.

Taking Operation IceBridge to the Next Level

Taking Operation IceBridge to the Next Level

NASA’s annual Antarctic mission yields record results as researchers dig deeper into a host of factors that impact global warming. By Holli Riebeek, NASA Earth Observatory (http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov), Greenbelt, Md. Additional IceBridge information is ...

Taking Earth's Temperature from Space

Taking Earth's Temperature from Space

The European Space Agency's new GlobTemperature project merges data from several spaceborne sensors to give scientists a one-stop shop for land, lake and ice temperature data.

Taking a Volcano's Pulse from Space

Taking a Volcano's Pulse from Space

A new study from the University of Miami shows that satellite images of inflating magma balloons deep beneath the ground can help predict the eruptions of some volcanoes.

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