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Space.com on MSN.com · 15d

Happy Earth Day 2025! Write your name in NASA satellite images and celebrate our planet (video)

April 22 is traditionally known as Earth Day, the occasion where we pause as temporary travelers on our 'blue marble' to honor and respect our precious planetary home and its immeasurable beauty, allowing for greater appreciation of this distinctive world's bounty of resources.

Space.com on MSN.com · 9d

Newly launched NASA satellites open eyes to start studying 'auroral electrojets' in Earth's atmosphere

The first bits of data have come back from the trio of small satellites that make up NASA's EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer) mission, which aims to solve some mysteries surrounding the "auroral electrojet" phenomena in our atmosphere.

ABC News on MSN.com · 6d

New Biomass satellite will provide an unprecedented look at the planet's forests

The Biomass satellite will measure the trunks, branches and stems of the trees that populate the planet's forests. ESA says these measurements will serve as a proxy for determining carbon storage, which is the key goal of the mission.

Newsweek on MSN.com · 9d

NASA Satellite Catches Solar Eclipse Visible Only From Space

On April 27, the moon blocked 23 percent of the sun in a partial eclipse, but it was not possible to see this from Earth.

MSN · Mar 31, 2025

NASA's SWOT satellite unveils hidden underwater peaks

The SWOT satellite, supported by NASA ... maps of the Moon's surface than those of the ocean floor. Scientists have been trying to change this for years. New data sheds fresh light on Earth's ...

NASA’s SPHEREx Telescope Just Switched On. Time to Map the Entire Universe in 3D

The space-based observatory will scan the cosmos in 102 colors we can't see to unlock the secret history of the universe.

BGR · Apr 19, 2023

A dead NASA satellite will plummet to Earth today

A NASA satellite launched in 2002 will finally fall back to Earth this week. The dead NASA Satellite was decommissioned in 2018, and now, five years later, it’s finally falling out of orbit.

Austin American-Statesman · 15d

This NASA tool writes your name with satellite imagery. Where in the world is yours?

Here's an example using Texas. Landsat is a decades-long satellite program run by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey. It captures high-resolution images of Earth’s surface, helping scientists ...

Smithsonian Magazine · Mar 21, 2018

NASA’s On-Again, Off-Again Satellite

Using a satellite catalog, he looked up its transmitter frequency and spin rate, and realized he had to alert NASA. Back in 2005, the space agency suddenly lost contact with IMAGE, the Imager for ...

Hackaday · Jul 9, 2021

Checking Up On Earth’s Sister Planet: NASA’s Upcoming Venus Missions

with NASA having selected two new missions that will explore Venus by the end of this decade. The DAVINCI+ and VERITAS missions aim to respectively characterize Venus’ atmosphere and map its ...

Here’s a NASA Satellite View of One of New Jersey’s Biggest Wildfires in Decades

Image: NASA Earth Observatory images by Wanmei Liang, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Images taken by a NASA satellite this week reveal the worrying extent of a fast-moving ...

Yahoo News UK · 7d

NASA's Expedition 19 crew captured satellite imagery of man-made object that's slowing down Earth's rotation

As climate change and human development continue to reshape Earth, satellite imagery could be one of the most important tools for humanity to help fix the issues that they created in the first place. While many of you may have thought that NASA's only ...

Mundo Deportivo · 27d

Breakthrough: First-ever detailed ocean floor map by NASA leads to astonishing find

Submarine maps are ... The SWOT satellite is a joint mission between NASA and France’s National Centre for Space Studies (CNES). It covers approximately 90% of the Earth's surface every ...