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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.
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Video: Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Satellite Family Tree
A visualization of U.S. East Coast ocean flows
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Video: Ocean Flow Vignettes
Video: Ocean Flow Vignettes
Animation showing changes in Antarctic ice mass since 2002 based on satellite data.
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Video: Antarctic Ice Mass Loss 2002-2020
Global ice viewer interactive
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Global ice viewer interactive
Interactive: Global ice viewer
Quiz: The air we breathe
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Quiz: The air we breathe
Quiz: The air we breathe
This visualization depicts changes in Antarctic land ice thickness as measured by the ICESat and ICESat-2 satellites.
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Antarctic Land Ice Height C...
Antarctic Land Ice Height Change as Measured by ICESat and ICESat-2
CO2 emissions
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CO2 video for carbon feature
NASA Earth Right Now promo
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NASA Earth Right Now promo
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This animation shows the change in atmospheric nitrogen dioxide (NO2) levels as a result of COVID-19 stay-at-home restrictions.
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COVID-19 Mitigation Leads t...
COVID-19 Mitigation Leads to Reduced Pollution Associated with Decreased Fossil Fuel Use
Video: Scientists combined an array of NASA satellite observations of Earth with data on human activities to map locations where freshwater is changing around the globe and why.
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For 15 years, GRACE tracked...
Video: For 15 years, GRACE tracked freshwater movements around the world
Graphic: Global surface temperature changes versus the Sun's energy that the Earth receives in watts (units of energy) per square meter since 1880.
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Temperature vs Solar Activity
Graphic: Temperature vs Solar Activity
Color-coded map of changing global surface temperature anomalies from 1880 through 2020. 
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Video: Global Warming from 1880 to 2020
A series of rocky outcroppings are a prominent feature of this Sahara Desert landscape near the Terkezi Oasis in the country of Chad. This image was taken by the Landsat 7 satellite on October 22, 2000. It is a false-color composite image made using near infrared, green, and red wavelengths. The image has also been sharpened using the sensor's panchromatic band.
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Terkezi Oasis
Terkezi Oasis
Track Earth's vital signs and fly along with NASA's Earth-observing satellites.
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Eyes on the Earth
Interactive: Eyes on the Earth
Test your knowledge about global temperature change and its impact on Earth's climate.
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Quiz: Global warming
Ice covers 10 percent of Earth's surface and helps moderate the planet's temperature. Glaciers and ice sheets around the world are melting at an alarming rate. By keeping an eye on Earth's ice from space, NASA satellites help us understand the global effects of climate change.
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Video: Frozen Earth
The carbon dioxide cycle is the movement of carbon dioxide (CO2) between the land, the atmosphere, and the ocean. Print this page to color with your kids at home.
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Coloring Page: The Carbon D...
Coloring Page: The Carbon Dioxide Cycle
​ A spring phytoplankton bloom off of the Alaskan coast.
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Churning in the Chukchi Sea
Churning in the Chukchi Sea
This visualization shows total sea level change between 1992 and 2019, based on data collected from the TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1, Jason-2, and Jason-3 satellites.
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Video: 27-Year Sea Level Rise
Video: 27-Year Sea Level Rise
An animation shows several high impact events across the globe between August 2019 and January 2020, including the Australian bushfires.
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Global Transport of Smoke f...
Global Transport of Australian Bushfire Smoke
The past decade has been the hottest ever recorded since global temperature records began 150 years ago. This video discusses the impacts of the sun's energy, Earth's reflectance and greenhouse gasses on global warming.
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Video: Temperature Puzzle
This image shows a spinning formation of ice, clouds and low-lying fog off the eastern coast of Greenland. This image was acquired by the Landsat 7 satellite on May 14, 2001. This is a false-color composite image made using infrared, red and green wavelengths.
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Whirlpool
Whirlpool
Learn how you can explore Earth Now's many features, including real-time data visualizations of Earth's vital signs and 3D models of Earth-orbiting satellite missions.
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'Earth Now' Tutorial
'Earth Now' Tutorial
NASA explores. From its earliest days of sounding rockets and balloon-borne instruments, to Apollo and Hubble and missions to Mars. This mission of exploration has also always focused on our own corner of the universe, Earth - the home frontier. Earth is still the only planet we've ever been to, as this video explains.
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Home Frontier
By comparing bee data to satellite imagery, NASA research scientist Wayne Esaias uses honey bees as tiny data collectors to understand how climate change is affecting pollination and plants.
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Video: Sting of Climate Change

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Images of Change

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.
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Climate Mobile Apps

Climate Mobile Apps

Keep track of Earth's vital signs, see the planet in a state of flux and slow the pace of global warming with NASA's free mobile apps.
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Climate Time Machine

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.
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Eyes on the Earth

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.
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Global Ice Viewer

Global Ice Viewer

Earth's ice cover is shrinking. See how climate change has affected glaciers, sea ice, and continental ice sheets.
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