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NASA uses the vantage point of space to increase our understanding of Earth and improve lives.

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  1. 5 hours ago

    ⚡️ From airplanes ✈️ high above the South Pole to satellites 🛰 in orbit, 🌎❄️ investigate some of Earth's coldest places to learn more about our changing planet. Join them in 's digital series! Watch 👀:

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  2. Feb 1

    Another Deadly Dam Collapse in Brazil

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  3. Feb 1

    Join 🌎❄️ on the coldest game of tag ever played. A satellite 🛰 and an airplane ✈️ chase each other through the night skies over Antarctica 🇦🇶 to measure the changing height 📏 of ice on our warming 🌡 planet. Watch 👀:

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  4. Feb 1

    It may be cold 🥶 in parts of the United States right now, but is sweating through a sweltering summer. 🥵 🌡️

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  5. Feb 1

    The dark of a September morning 🌌 is suddenly illuminated by rocket fire 🚀. For some 🌎❄️, it’s the culmination of a decade’s work designing, building and launching 🛰 for a global view 🔎 of our changing planet. Watch 👀:

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  6. Feb 1

    Blistering Summer in Australia

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  7. Feb 1

    Ice can be a time ⏰ machine. The Arctic’s frozen soil, permafrost, holds dead plants 🍂 & animals from thousands of years of ago. Join 🌎❄️ on a trip underground 🕳 — and through time — to learn what happens as permafrost thaws. Watch 👀:

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  8. Jan 31

    High in the mountains 🏔, temperatures stay icy year-round and rivers of ice — glaciers — flow down into lower altitudes, providing an important source of freshwater 💧. 🌎❄️ study how these glaciers respond to a warming planet. Watch 👀:

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  9. Jan 31

    .'s Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument captured the as it moved southward from central Canada into the U.S. Midwest.

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  10. Jan 31

    From Earth into the solar system, water ice 💧❄️ is out there. On other planets and moons 🌑, it can be a good starting point in the 📡. 🌎❄️ are looking 🔎 at the cryosphere on Earth and beyond. Watch 👀:

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  11. Jan 31

    -2 does more than measure polar ice. It also makes detailed observations of elevation in tropical and temperate latitudes. This is what the observed as it passed over a forested hillside in .

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  12. Jan 31

    Icy Moose River

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  13. Jan 30

    NASA research scientist visits a 3-year-old volcanic island for the first time after watching it form from space – an blog post

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  14. Jan 30

    Ice sheets and glaciers 🏔 in Greenland and Antarctica store more than 99% of Earth’s freshwater 💧 ice. This ice is melting, and 🌎❄️ are investigating how it raises sea levels 🌊 as it makes its way from land to the ocean. Watch 👀:

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  15. Jan 30

    Etna Awakens on its Side

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  16. Jan 30

    Fortnight Fires in Tasmania

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  17. Jan 30

    ICESat-2 Sees the Trees in Mexico

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  18. Jan 30

    Findings highlight the need for detailed observations of Antarctic glaciers' undersides in calculating how fast global sea level will rise in response to . Find out how is measuring 📏 one of the hardest places to reach on Earth 🌎 

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  19. Jan 30

    Radar data from NASA airborne ✈ and new international satellite missions 🛰️ helped researchers discover the gigantic cavity which is big enough to have contained 14 billion tons of ice, and most of that ice melted over the last three years.

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  20. Jan 30

    About the size of Florida, Thwaites Glacier is currently responsible for approximately 4% of global sea level rise 🌊📏 It holds enough ice to raise the world ocean over 2 ft & backstops neighboring glaciers that would raise sea levels an additional 8 ft if all the ice were lost.

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