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Northern Glow Spans Iceland and Canada

Although the aurora borealis, or northern lights, is most often observed in March and September, it can appear at other times of the...

Peering Homeward, 1972 – NASA Science

By Laura Rocchio On July 23, 1972 the first civilian satellite designed to image Earth’s land surfaces was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base...

Measuring the Big Bang with the COBE satellite

By John Mather The Cosmic Background Explorer satellite (COBE) went up on a Delta rocket on Nov. 18, 1989, into a polar sun-synchronous orbit...

The Sky Belongs to All of Us

By Hashima Hasan How did a little girl born in India soon after its independence from the British Empire, become a program scientist for...

42 Years of Measuring the Sun, the Earth and the Energy in Between

By Denise Lineberry On Jan. 31, 1958, Explorer 1 became the first satellite launched by the United States. Its primary science instrument, a cosmic...

Notes from the Field – NASA Science

By Compton "Jim" Tucker NASA scientists are able to study plants from space, but this wasn’t always the case. “I love using satellite data to...

CSDA Program Announces Eight New Data Agreements

NASA’s Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program announced eight new agreements with seven of its commercial partners— Airbus Defense and Space GEO Inc (Airbus...

CSDA Releases New Data Acquisition Request System

4 min read CSDA Releases New Data Acquisition Request System This screen capture of the SDX dashboard shows a map of Earth’s surface, and on...

Digital Surface and Terrain Models from Vantor’s Precision3D Product Line Added to Satellite Data Explorer

NASA’s Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program announces the addition of three digital elevation and digital terrain products from Vantor’s Precision3D Product Line...

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