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Earth, Our Home Planet
Earth, our home planet, is the 3rd planet from the sun.
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The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environment Satellite System Preparatory Project (NPP) spacecraft was launched aboard a Delta II rocket on October 28. The Earth-observer combines weather and climate observations on the same platform.
NASA's NPP satellite will gather data for short-term weather forecasting and long-term climate monitoring.
NPP is the first satellite designed to gather data for short-term weather forecasts and long-term climate monitoring.
After a massive February 2010 earthquake and tsunami devastated parts of Chile, researchers used LiDAR, laser scanning technology, to assess the aftermath.
7 Billion people live below on this planet. But fewer than a thousand have seen these sights with their own two eyes. Join us on a journey of vibrant beauty in these compilations of space station, space-transport and satellite imagery.
NPP will be the first satellite to collect data for short-term weather forecasts and long-term climate modeling.
This cool space wallpaper of an artist's impression shows the distant dwarf planet Eris.
Highlights from recent space station fly-overs of Earth includes the Western United States, Mediterranean, Sahara Desert, Red Sea, Balkans, Southeast Asia and Malaysia.
Hurricane Rina appears to be intensifying as it approaches Mexico's Yucatan peninsula.
A look at NASA's NPOESS Preparatory Project satellite (NPP), which will launch Oct. 28, 2011. NPP will gather data for both short-term weather forecasting and long-term climate monitoring.
"Spaceman" takes readers on a journey into a future climate change ravaged Earth where NASA plays God by creating the perfect astronauts to live on Mars. Public outcry leaves these Mars-men stuck on Earth. Writer Brian Azzarello talks about the book.
Using satellite data, NASA has comprised a view of each continent's wild and man-made fires that consume major portions of land each year. Nearly 10 years of data shows the path of these fires, helping scientists infer their impact on the climate.
New study of ancient impact shows similarity to large eruptions.
Was it meteorites raining on earth, a secret spy satellite or something else?
Researchers are trying to connect stellar radiation events to extinctions visible in the fossil record, and are able to estimate how often an extinction-level gamma ray burst may occur.
The photo could be a scene from a science fiction movie, but it's actually real.
NASA's WISE mission has tracked down 93 percent of the 1 kilometer diameter or larger asteroids whose size could devastate our planet. The project's asteroid census has revised the total number of NEO's down from 36,000 to 20,500.
Nature-made lightning – and man-made lighting – enhance this surreal time-lapse view from the International Space Station. The video was created using astronaut photography that anyone may download.
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