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Video: NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) and Operation IceBridge missions investigate Greenland's thinning ice sheets from above and below.
Video: Greenland's thinning ice
Satellite scatterometer missions make essential measurements to support weather and marine forecasting. Learn more about how they work, why they measure ocean winds, and what the QuikScat mission accomplished during its time in orbit.
QuikScat: A Pioneer of Satellite Scatterometry (Video)
This documentary traces the efforts of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to measure greenhouse gases.
JPL and the Space Age: Sky High (Video)
Explore Kaneohe Bay with NASA’s CORAL scientists. During field campaigns, scientists take in-water (in situ) measurements to validate the data from airborne instruments.
Explore Kaneohe Bay with NASA's CORAL scientists
This video shows the accumulation of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO
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Global Carbon Dioxide: 2020-2021
This animation shows the change in atmospheric nitrogen dioxide (NO
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) levels as a result of COVID-19 stay-at-home restrictions.
COVID-19 Mitigation Leads to Reduced Pollution Associated with Decreased Fossil Fuel Use
¡La NASA no explora solamente el espacio exterior! Desde 1959, con el lanzamiento del primer satélite meteorológico, la NASA ha estado estudiando nuestro planeta de origen a escala global.
Misión a la Tierra
The relentless rise of carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere.
Graphic: The relentless rise of carbon dioxide
A view from one of our flying science laboratories over the ice in Greenland during Operation IceBridge.
Inside NASA's P-3 aircraft
Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich will join a long-standing family of Earth-observing satellites from NASA and European partners, including EUMETSAT and the French space agency CNES.
Video: Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Satellite Family Tree
Karen St. Germain, NASA's director of Earth science, gave a presentation at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference.
Video: What NASA Knows from Decades of Earth System Observations
Learn how you can explore Eyes on the Earth's many features, including real-time data visualizations of Earth's vital signs and 3D models of Earth-orbiting satellite missions.
Tutorial: NASA's Eyes on the Earth
Los aerosoles son diminutas partículas sólidas y líquidas suspendidas en la atmósfera.
Me llamo Aerosol
Video: Global sea level rise is accelerating incrementally over time rather than increasing at a steady rate.
Video: New study finds sea level rise accelerating
This animation shows the movement of carbon dioxide between the air and sea with the help of ocean surface winds from Jan. 3, 2012 to Aug. 15, 2012.
Video: Movement of Carbon Dioxide Between the Air and Sea
Video: total sea level change between 1992 and 2014, based on data collected from the TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1 and Jason-2 satellites.
Video: 22-year sea level rise
The basics of sea level rise, expressed in everyday terms, and what it means for those on the coast.
Rising Tides: Understanding Sea Level Rise
This visualization shows carbon emissions from fires from January 1, 2003 through December 31, 2018. The color bar reflects the quantity of carbon emitted.
Carbon Emissions from Fires: 2003-2018
Video: Explore how scientists determine glacial speed from space.
Video: At glacial speed
This movie shows the evolution of several regions of the Greenland Ice Sheet between 2008 and 2300 based on three different climate scenarios.
Greenland Ice Sheet: Three Futures
NASA scientists say 2013 tied for the seventh warmest of any year since 1880, continuing a long-term trend of rising global temperatures.
Video: Global Temperature Variation
A video depicts all seven continents on Earth converging over 250 million years into one new supercontinent called Aurica.
Exploring the Climates of Earth's Future Supercontinent with a NASA Supercomputer
Animation showing changes in Antarctic ice mass since 2002 based on satellite data.
Video: Antarctic Ice Mass Loss 2002-2020
Antes de la Revolución Industrial, el clima de la Tierra cambiaba debido a eventos naturales como la actividad volcánica y las variaciones de la energía solar.
Los sospechosos de siempre
An animation shows global sea level trends from 1993 to 2022 as observed by several satellite missions.
Video: Tracking 30 Years of Sea Level Rise
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Interactives, galleries and apps
Images of Change
Explore a stunning gallery of before-and-after images of Earth from land and space that reveal our home planet in a state of flux.
Climate Time Machine
Travel through Earth's recent climate history and see how increasing carbon dioxide, global temperature and sea ice have changed over time.
Eyes on the Earth
Track Earth's vital signs from space and fly along with NASA's Earth-observing satellites in an interactive 3D visualization.
Global Ice Viewer
Earth's ice cover is shrinking. See how climate change has affected glaciers, sea ice, and continental ice sheets.