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NASA's Planetary Photojournal: Earth
Images of Earth and All Available Satellites Subscribe Your search criteria found 1696 images Target is Earth (and available satellites) Go directly to image (PIxxxxxx): Other Search Methods Sub-select this list of images...
Precision Farming
significant number of farmers who use high technology and remote sensing data for precision crop management." The U.S. Department of Agriculture, NASA, and NOAA are among key agencies contributing to this revolution in large-scale agriculture. The goa...
Fire Emergency in Acre, Brazil
burn before the episode is over. Foster Brown is one of several NASA-funded scientists who is working with Brazilian scientists and government planners to develop strategies for controlling and preventing the destructive blazes. “Our role is to use satel...
Urban Heat Makes Cities � Greener?
environments extend the growing season by two weeks, according to new research. The term "urban heat islands" has for decades been used to describe the fact that roads and concrete buildings retain heat better than rural terrains. Using NASA's Moderate Resolution...
New Tools for Conservation
or urban growth, to the frequency and severity of air pollution events, to increased ocean temperatures in sensitive coral habitat. Along with other agencies, NASA is entering “a new age of remote sensing,” says Woody Turner, a program scientis...
'Dinosaur-Killer' Asteroid Crater Imaged for First Time
Imaged for First Time National Geographic News March 7, 2003 A high-resolution map from NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM), released yesterday, has provided the most telling visible evidence to date of a 112-mile (180-kilometer) wide, 3,000-foot (900-mete...
Stepping back to get a closer view
Atlanta led to 1998's Urban Heat Island Pilot Project (UHIPP) which conducted similar measurements over Baton Rouge, Sacramento, and Salt Lake City. Right: An image from the Landsat 5 thermal channel (top) is shows how hot areas (red) correspond with urban a...
EO-1: It's not just a good idea, it's the law!
growth or urban planning; it certainly looks at productivity of crops; it looks at forest management; it looks at natural disasters, for example floods or volcanoes; it looks at some cases of pollution, like people dumping things into coastal waters," s...
NASA Views Landing Site Through Eyes of Future Moon Crew
floors two and a half times deeper than the Grand Canyon. There are challenges that come with such rugged terrain, and these data will be an invaluable tool for advance planning of lunar missions." Three times during a six-month period in 2006,...
Bright Lights, Big City
U.S., Europe, and Japan are brightly lit by their cities, while the interiors of Africa, Asia, Australia, and South America remain (for now) dark and lightly populated. (Data courtesy Marc Imhoff of NASA GSFC and Christopher Elvidge of NOAA NGD...
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