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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
Video: Simulation of global clouds and aerosols from September 1, 2005, to December 31, 2005.
Video: Simulated clouds and aerosols
B-roll for media on the sea level-observing Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite.
Video: Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Media Reel
Fly in 360 degrees over Greenland’s craggy glaciers and other ice formations from NASA’s P-3 aircraft.
Greenland's ice from above
Quiz: Our home planet
Quiz: Our home planet
Carbon dioxide is the main heat-trapping greenhouse gas that humans emit. How much do you know about it and its impact on global warming and climate change?
Quiz: Carbon dioxide
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
A visualization shows global temperature changes per latitude zone from 1880 to 2022.
Video: Global Warming Broken Down by Latitude Zone (1880-2022)
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
A quick guide to the science behind sea level rise from an ice-loss perspective, what it means in relatable terms and why it matters.
On Thin Ice: Why Ice Loss Matters
This animation shows how various temperature records and Arctic sea ice have changed between 1850 and 2018 from human and natural drivers of climate change.
Human and Natural Drivers of Climate Change (1850-2018)
Take a 360-degree view of an iceberg and sea ice during Operation IceBridge flights over Greenland.
Bird's eye view of an iceberg
Video: The ocean's important role in absorbing heat and carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Video: Ocean circulation plays an important role in absorbing carbon from the atmosphere
Video: Winter temperatures are soaring in the Arctic for the fourth winter in a row.
NASA studies an unusual Arctic warming event
Desde 1978, la NASA ha estado monitoreando los vientos oceánicos a través de la dispersometría, cuyos datos han mejorado los pronósticos meteorológicos y de huracanes y nos han ayudado a comprender mejor los patrones climáticos globales.
Los vientos oceánicos
Earth has about 370,000,000,000,000,000,000 (quintillion) gallons of water, with some sources easier to access and use than others. The water budget tells us where that water is – key information that helps better plan for the future.
Video: Earth's Water Budget
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.
Video: For 15 years, GRACE tracked freshwater movements around the world
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
Video: NASA scientists release the first new global map of Earth at night since 2012.
Video: Lights of human activity shine in NASA's image of Earth at night
La fuerza de la gravedad no solo evita que nos alejemos flotando, sino que también permite a la NASA estudiar el agua y el hielo de la Tierra desde el espacio.
Balanza en el cielo
Animation showing changes in Greenland ice mass since 2002 based on satellite data.
Video: Greenland Ice Mass Loss 2002-2023
Animación simplificada del efecto invernadero.
Efecto invernadero
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
Oceanographer Josh Willis discusses the heat capacity of water, performs an experiment to demonstrate heat capacity using a water balloon and describes how water's ability to store heat affects Earth's climate.
Video: Oceans of Climate Change
Video: The NASA satellite fleet in 2017, from low Earth orbit to the DSCOVR satellite taking in the million-mile view.
Video: NASA's vantage point to view Earth
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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.