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Wildfires

NASA provides many resources for monitoring and tracking wildfires.

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Open Science empowers an inclusive, collaborative scientific process through the open sharing of data and knowledge.

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Air Quality

Air pollution is one of the largest global environmental and health threats.

This screen capture from NASA Worldview shows the locations of widespread thermal anomalies and smoke haze in Thailand and neighboring Cambodia.
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FIRMS Helps Thai Officials Manage Fire and Smoke Haze
Geographer Veerachai Tanpipat promotes the use of NASA's Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) throughout the Lower Mekong River Region.
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It’s Always Sunny in Space (and That's a Problem for Satellite Teams)
Strong solar storms can impact satellite orbits, instrument health, and data transmission. NASA Earth science satellite teams work to mitigate these challenges.
This nighttime visible image created with data from the VIIRS instrument shows Tropical Storm Alberto in the Gulf of Mexico on June 20, 2024.
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NASA Data Help the U.S. Navy Forecast Tropical Cyclones
Data from NASA’s Land, Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for Earth observations (LANCE) are critical to the Navy’s tropical cyclone forecasts.
This is a rectangular image of a sunglint over land. The upper two-thirds of the image shows land with clouds floating over it. The lower third of the image is largely ocean. In the center of the image is a red outline of a square and in the center of the square is a red, green, and blue sunglint.
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A Glint of Understanding
NASA researchers and data offer new insights into the impish and interesting visual phenomenon of sunglint in satellite imagery.
An image of South America from FIRMS showing the location of active fires on the landscape.
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Data Tool in Focus: Fire Information for Resource Management System
Global and US/Canada active Fire Maps enable users to visualize the location, extent, and impact of wildfires with minimal delay.
News and Events
Level-3 Cloud Properties Data Product Suite Now Available

This new suite of products provides data on cloud properties for detecting climate trends and enhancing models.

NASA CSDA Program Vendor Focus—Planet

Join us Wednesday, Sep 25, at 2 p.m., EDT (-04:00 UTC), to learn about the NASA Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition (CSDA) program vendor Planet, the company's constellations of Earth observation satellites, and how to discover, access, and work with these data.

Registration Now Open for the 2024 NASA International Space Apps Challenge

This year’s hackathon will be held Oct 5 and 6 and feature NASA-created challenges along with 400 local events around the world.

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From Onboarding to Fledging and Beyond—An Openscapes Journey

After learning how to migrate workflows to the cloud during onboarding, NASA Openscapes participants “fledge” to use their new skills in cloud-based scientific research.

Reflections on Leading NASA's IMPACT Project

The founding manager of NASA's Interagency Implementation and Advanced Concepts Team (IMPACT) looks back on five years of project accomplishments with the Earth Science Data Systems Program.

Explore New Aerosol Layers in NASA Worldview

NASA Worldview added four layers from the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) program to provide ground-based measurements of aerosol optical depth (AOD) and Angstrom parameter.

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False-color corrected reflectance image of fires in Portugal on 17 September 2024 from the VIIRS instrument aboard the joint NASA/NOAA NOAA-20 satellite
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Fires in Northern Portugal

Image captured on Sep 17, 2024, by the VIIRS instrument aboard the joint NASA/NOAA NOAA-20 satellite.

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