NASA Selects Combined Data Services Contract For Polar Satellites

NASA has selected the Norwegian Space Centre of Oslo, Norway, for combined data support services for…

Smokey Bear to Celebrate 68th Birthday at Mission Control

NASA, the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), the Texas Forest Service and Smokey Bear are teaming up…

Dust Dominates Foreign Aerosol Imports to North America

NASA and university scientists have made the first measurement-based estimate of the amount and composition of…

Satellites See Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Melt

For several days this month, Greenland's surface ice cover melted over a larger area than at…

The Longest Continuous View of Earth From Space Hits 40

WASHINGTON -- NASA and the Interior Department Monday marked the 40th anniversary of the Landsat program,…

New NASA Supercomputer Facility Set to Advance Earth Research

NASA soon will open a new chapter of discovery using enhanced Landsat Earth-observing data in a…

Earth-Observing Camera to Launch to International Space Station

A remote-controlled Earth-observing camera system called ISERV will be launched to the International Space Station (ISS)…

NASA Mission Takes Stock of Earth’s Melting Land Ice

In the first comprehensive satellite study of its kind, a University of Colorado at Boulder-led team…

NASA Spinoff 2011 Unveils Benefits of NASA Technologies on Earth

NASA's Spinoff 2011 publication, now available online, reveals how the space agency's ingenuity and partnerships have…

NASA Renames Earth-Observing Mission in Honor of Satellite Pioneer

NASA has renamed its newest Earth-observing satellite in honor of the late Verner E. Suomi, a…