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Wildfires

NASA provides many resources for monitoring and tracking wildfires.

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Open Science

Open Science empowers an inclusive, collaborative scientific process through the open sharing of data and knowledge.

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Air Quality

Air pollution is one of the largest global environmental and health threats.

This image from NASA Worldview shows ISS LIS Flash Count data (i.e., the pink, purple, and red dots), which provide the number of lightning flashes recorded by the LIS aboard the ISS. Red dots indicate high numbers of lightning flashes (greater than or equal to 20), while purple dots indicate the fewest flashes.
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Lightning Imaging Sensor’s Nearly 25-Year Data Record Ends
The Lightning Imaging Sensor measured the amount, rate, and radiant energy of lightning around the globe both day and night.
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Air Pollution by the First-Light of Day
Videos from NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio reveal the brilliant view from the agency’s newest pollution-detecting sensor.
This graphic from POPGRID Viewer offers a visual representation of population data (orange and pink) in China, India, Japan, North and South Korea, and several other countries in the region.
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Data Tool in Focus: POPGRID Viewer
The POPGRID Viewer tool demystifies the process of finding the right population dataset.
Dr. Gonzalo González Abad, an Atmospheric Physicist at the Center for Astrophysics, sits at a desk in his office. He is wearing a green collared shirt and behind him is a computer monitor showing code used to manipulate data.
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User Profile: Dr. Gonzalo González Abad
NASA Earth science data help Dr. Gonzalo González Abad produce retrievals of formaldehyde and other atmospheric trace gases.
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How Open Science is Enabling Equity and Environmental Justice
NASA-funded projects are using Earth observation data to bring greater equity to underserved communities in the U.S. Gulf South.
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Celebrate GIS Day 2023!

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) make it easy to see the relationships between different datasets and are a powerful tool for researchers. GIS Day celebrates this technology.

NASA Earth Science Data Roundup: November 2023

A summary of datasets, products, and resources released by NASA’s Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) in October 2023.

All Historical Data from NASA's LAADS DAAC Now in the Cloud

The migration of historical satellite data from NASA's Level-1 and Atmosphere Archive and Distribution System Distributed Active Archive Center (LAADS DAAC) to the Earthdata Cloud brings new efficiencies to using these data.

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Clear sky image of brown mountains with white smoke in the center; red dots indicating hotspots are on the left side of the center smoke
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Wildfires in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia

Image captured on Nov 4, 2023, by the MSI instrument aboard the ESA (European Space Agency) Sentinel-2A and -2B satellites.

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