Acquired August 28, 2010, and August 28, 2009, these false-color images show part of Pakistan’s Balochistan Province before and after the 2010 monsoon floods.
The MODIS instrument on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this natural-color image of Typhoon Kompasu approaching the Korean peninsula and China on September 1, 2010
Acquired on August 23, 2010, and August 27, 2009, these false-color images show part of Niger before and after torrential rains that began in July 2010.
NASA completed a historic day for its hurricane research on Thursday as it put the Global Hawk over Earl, marking the first time the unmanned drone flew over a fully formed hurricane.
NASA and NOAA's latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-15, has successfully completed five months of on-orbit testing and has been accepted into service.
NASA and NOAA's latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-15, has successfully completed five months of on-orbit testing and has been accepted into service.
NASA and NOAA's latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-15, has successfully completed five months of on-orbit testing and has been accepted into service.
Operation IceBridge -- a NASA airborne mission to observe changes in Earth's rapidly changing polar land ice and sea ice -- is soon to embark on its fourth field season in October.
A series of new NASA satellite images provides useful perspectives on the origins, extent and effects of the massive flooding devastating large parts of Pakistan.
James Cameron, director of the award-winning film "Avatar," is featured in a new series of public service announcements describing the contributions NASA's Earth science program has made to environmental awareness and the exploration of our home planet.
Widespread reports of a decline in the population of bees and other flower-visiting animals have aroused fear and speculation that pollination is also likely on the decline.
A new study led by a Stanford researcher shows that more than 80 percent of the new farmland created in the tropics between 1980 and 2000 came from felling forests.
New method successfully predicted how oil from Deepwater Horizon spill would spread.
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