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Hungry for more? Get the latest on how farmers use NASA data: http://nasa.gov/earth
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The Mississippi River Valley is home to most of the rice farms in the United States. 🌾🍚

This #Landsat 9 image shows the patchwork of flooded rice fields in southwestern Louisiana on February 3, 2023. https://go.nasa.gov/3LmwPFw
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Louisiana is the nation’s third-largest producer of rice, after Arkansas and California.

In 2021, the Rice Belt (Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas) produced about 73%of all rice in the U.S. The map here shows rice-growing areas within these states (in blue) in 2022.
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Flooded rice fields are easier to see in this false-color #Landsat image taken on February 3, 2023.

Inundated fields appear dark blue in the false-color image and vegetation is bright green. Raised levees used for water management form the grid pattern between the fields. 🌾
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Our view from space can also show us how crops like rice are growing.

Satellites like #Landsat and Terra helped map a drop in rice acreage during a drought in Sacramento’s Central Valley – normally the largest rice-growing region in California.

🔗https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/150412/a-rough-year-for-rice-in-california
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A new air pollution mission, called MAIA, will investigate the health impacts of tiny airborne particles polluting some of the world’s most populated cities.

@nasa and @ASI_spazio are partnering to build and launch MAIA before the end of 2024.

Details: https://go.nasa.gov/3YFdQJo
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When you think of NASA, do you think of...
Rockets or corn?
Space or wheat?
Mars or rice?

NASA data also plays a big role in the food we eat, from water management to sustainable farming processes.
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When you think of NASA, do you think of...
Rockets or corn?
Space or wheat?
Mars or rice?

NASA data also plays a big role in the food we eat, from water management to sustainable farming processes.
#NASAEarth


The Corn Belt in the midwest is home to the nation’s most productive soils.

Hundreds of miles above, NASA satellites provide critical views of the region that help scientists study soil loss over time and develop tools for conservation techniques.

🔗 https://go.nasa.gov/3mDlpD9
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Bringing satellite data down to Earth: NASA is increasing its investment in U.S. agriculture with NASA Acres, a new consortium that will unite scientists & leaders in agriculture, to bring NASA data & tools to the many people working to feed the nation.
🔗https://go.nasa.gov/3ZLbJVw
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Tropical Cyclone Freddy, an unusually long-lived storm, wandered in the Indian Ocean for more than a month, bringing strong winds and downpours to anything in its path.

The @NOAA-20 satellite captured this image of the storm on March 8, 2023. https://go.nasa.gov/3YDQP9I 🌀
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How can space satellites help us know if a forest is changing or a lake is blooming with algae? 🤔

It starts with very, very precise sensors!

Meet Julia Barsi. Her team @NASA_Goddard calibrates the instruments on the @nasa @usgs Landsat satellites. 🧵 👇 #IWD2023
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Many @nasaearth satellites use light to study Earth from space.

Light from the Sun bounces off Earth and to the satellite’s sensor. Each wavelength of light tells scientists something about the surface below. Julia and her team make sure those sensors are extremely precise.
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Julia Barsi also works with the @NASA_Goddard GLAMR lab, where scientists test sensors before the satellite is sent to space.

They shine laser light at the sensor to see how it responds to different wavelengths. This information helps scientists interpret the satellite data.
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Julia Barsi is one of the many #WomenInScience at NASA who help us learn more about our home planet.

Follow along this #WomensHistoryMonth as we highlight more female-identifying scientists at NASA.
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Happy #InternationalWomensDay!

From studying air quality to sea ice, women at @nasa help us learn more about our home planet. 🌎👩‍🔬#IWD2023

Follow along this #WomensHistoryMonth as we highlight more female-identifying scientists at NASA.
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NASA’s OCO-2 satellite helps track carbon dioxide emissions for more than 100 countries.

In this map, countries where more carbon dioxide was removed than emitted appear as green depressions, while countries with higher emissions are tan or red and appear to pop off the page.
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“NASA is focused on delivering Earth science data that addresses real world climate challenges – like helping governments around the world measure the impact of their carbon mitigation efforts.” – Karen St. Germain, NASA’s Earth Science Division director

https://go.nasa.gov/3Jl2x4L
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Every day, @nasa data gets served on a dinner plate. 🍽️

Our fleet of Earth-observing satellites helps farmers make critical decisions about how to better grow food on our changing planet.

https://go.nasa.gov/3SXlEoT
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Scientists mapped nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in California’s air at the neighborhood scale and found hotspots of the air pollutant near high-rise buildings and food processing facilities.

Dark orange shows where NO2 concentrations were highest in 2018 & 2019. https://go.nasa.gov/3Jgjs8x
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TEMPO, an upcoming @nasa mission, will allow scientists to see how concentrations of pollution—such as NO2 and ozone—change over time depending on temperature, wind, traffic patterns, and other phenomena.

Learn about TEMPO:
https://go.nasa.gov/424mg07
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After torrential rains in São Paulo, a state in southeast Brazil, #Landsat images revealed widespread landslides in the coastal São Sebastião municipality.

This Feb. 26 image shows landslides across the hilly landscape between Jaqueí and Praia da Baleia. https://go.nasa.gov/3EVK3VZ
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Quantum science is behind many technologies we use on Earth and helps us study the universe's biggest mysteries.

Learn more alongside Ant-Man actor Paul Rudd! 🐜👇
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An astronaut aboard the @Space_Station captured this panoramic view of the Kalahari Desert in southern Africa. 🧑‍🚀📷🌍

The dark-toned lines of forest in Botswana’s Okavango inland delta are prominent against the tan landscape. https://go.nasa.gov/3KMgmKR
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Over the Cuando River basin (upper right corner in this image) a cloud free line traces the course of a river.

This line reflects a zone of cooler air directly above the river where cloud development is suppressed—at least on days with little wind.
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Nuisance or high-tide flooding is projected to rapidly increase along U.S. coastlines in the mid-2030s, when a regular wobble in the Moon’s orbit will amplify the effects of rising seas. Now, see how many high-tide flood days are forecasted for a US city: https://go.nasa.gov/3EV2fiz
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Tropical Cyclone Freddy brought heavy rain and flooding to Madagascar and Mozambique. This animation shows NASA IMERG satellite precipitation estimates from Feb. 6 to March 2, along with the cyclone’s position and intensity.

Details:
https://go.nasa.gov/3Yl5SVF
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📢UPDATE: EMIT’s data is now available to the public through the open science portal: VISIONS. You can explore what measurements have been made and where the mission will be observing next.

Get started: https://earth.jpl.nasa.gov/emit/data/data-portal/coverage-and-forecasts/

[Video embedded in original tweet]
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Overgrazing by deer poses a threat to a giant quaking aspen tree colony in Utah that scientists have named Pando.

In this image by #Landsat 9, Pando’s yellow leaves are visible for about 200 meters on either side of State Route 25. https://go.nasa.gov/3KPIeNU
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The dust storm is visible in this simulated natural-color image, acquired late in the afternoon on February 26 by GOES-16, operated by @noaa. @nasa helps develop and launch the GOES satellites.

https://go.nasa.gov/3Y5sxoU
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An international team including @nasa scientists mapped nearly 10 billion individual trees in Africa’s drylands. 🌳

Their goal? Assess the amount of carbon stored outside of Africa’s tropical forests, which is essential for climate change projections. https://go.nasa.gov/3ZzUg2l
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The team identified every single tree in over 326,000 satellite images, using artificial intelligence algorithms. Measuring trees in the field allowed the scientists to relate the satellite data to how much carbon was stored in individual trees.
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The team found there are far more trees in semi-arid regions of Africa than previously thought. But those trees store less carbon than some models predicted.

They estimate roughly 0.84 petagrams of carbon are locked up in African drylands.
(1 Pg = 1 billion metric tons)
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The data are publicly available with a viewer app developed by the team. #OpenScience

The app identifies individual trees in satellite imagery and shows the amount of carbon they contain.
Full story: https://go.nasa.gov/3ZzUg2l
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Strong earthquakes in Türkiye on Feb. 6 left many areas without electric power.

These maps show light around Antakya before (left) and after the earthquakes (right). Maps are from the Black Marble HD product, using @nasa @noaa Suomi-NPP satellite data. https://go.nasa.gov/3xTvQVw
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The second pair of maps (below) show that some nighttime lights returned between February 8 and 9, but widespread outages persisted in much of the region surrounding Antakya in Türkiye.
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An astronaut on the @Space_Station took this photo of Mōkapu Peninsula.

The U.S. Marine Corps Base Hawaii spans most of the peninsula. Next to it is a tuff ring crater called Ulupa’u Head that belongs to the lower part of the Honolulu volcanic series.

https://go.nasa.gov/3YZlpvs
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“I realize that following my curiosity opened me up to a world I never thought I would be in — a world beyond who I thought I could be or what I thought I could do."

Dr. Justin Rice helps make Earth science data accessible to a worldwide community.
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Get to know Dr. Rice’s journey and his work with NASA’s Earth Science Data and Information System Project: https://go.nasa.gov/3m3ii7k
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On February 14, 2023, an astronaut aboard the @Space_Station photographed a landslide in a canyon near İslahiye in southeastern Türkiye.

İslahiye is one of several towns and cities where large numbers of homes were damaged or destroyed by the earthquakes.
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