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Grab your headphones! 🎧 NASA's Curious Universe podcast is back.

From wildfires here on Earth to Venus’ scorching surface, tune in for a new season of adventures starting Tuesday, Feb. 21. All you need is your curiosity. http://nasa.gov/curiousuniverse
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An astronaut on the @Space_Station took these images of the Quirimbas Islands stretching 322 kilometers (200 miles) along Mozambique’s coastline in 2021.

Blue-green water around the islands highlights the shallow complex of corals, sand and seagrass. https://go.nasa.gov/3HRPKVp
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Are you ready for the #SuperBowl? We are! 🏈

#Landsat took this photo of State Farm Stadium in Glendale, AZ.

And in 2020, NASA's ICESat-2 satellite measured the relative elevation of the stadium, which stands over 200 feet tall! https://go.nasa.gov/3JZLaak
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Today is the 10th anniversary of #Landsat 8! 🎉 🌍

For over 50 years, the @nasa / @USGS Landsat mission has studied our planet, providing the longest continuous record of Earth from space.
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NASA also supports #WomenInScience by fostering the next generation of Earth scientists through programs like SaSa, SARP, GLOBE and others. These programs provide opportunities to get involved with real @nasa research.
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In August 2022, several college students flew on @nasawallops P-3 aircraft to collect atmospheric data as part of NASA's SaSa program.

“I felt my dreams of becoming a scientist become more tangible,,” said Sophia Ramirez.

Read about their experiences: https://go.nasa.gov/3XpdyFY
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Through the @GLOBEProgram, sponsored by @nasa, people around the world can learn about and help with science research like documenting land cover, photographing clouds and taking environmental measurements with kites! 🌳 ☁️ 🪁

Learn more & join today: https://go.nasa.gov/3jFCknD
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In 2022, interns with @nasa SARP studied Earth’s atmosphere, forests and oceans.

SARP interns Jillian Ethridge and Dimagi Kottage collected ocean samples, while Andrea Belvis-Aquino helped process aerosol samples from a research flight! 🌊
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We support women in STEM. 👩‍🔬👩‍💻

Today is the @un International Day of Women and Girls in Science. #WomenInScience

To celebrate, we’re highlighting some of the amazing women doing @nasa Earth science!
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“My younger self would be very proud that I’m here at NASA, doing a job I love.”

Rachel Tilling monitors sea ice cover around the world. Usually this means studying satellite data, but her work also involves traveling to study sea ice up close! 🌊🧊 https://go.nasa.gov/3xbmt36
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As a research scientist @nasagoddard, Lola Fatoyinbo studies forest ecology and ecosystem structure to understand these important ecosystems and how they are changing. 🌲 #WomenInScience

More from Lola: https://go.nasa.gov/3xdNTFM
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This past summer, Liz Hoy conducted research in Earth’s Arctic and boreal regions with @nasa’s ABoVE. #WomenInScience

The project has been studying these regions – which are seeing the effects of climate change more than most places on Earth – since 2015. https://go.nasa.gov/3xbHMS5
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Sarah Bang was terrified of thunderstorms as a child, but she didn’t let that stop her!

Now, she uses sensors on @NASAEarth satellites to detect lightning and hail.

⛈: https://go.nasa.gov/3xckL1w
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Siling Lake – one of the largest water bodies on the Tibetan Plateau – hasn’t plateaued! The lake has been growing in recent decades.

An astronaut on the @Space_Station took this image of Siling Lake on Dec. 4, 2021, when the lake wasn’t frozen over. 💧:https://go.nasa.gov/3DVx46h
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In this preliminary damage proxy map, made with data from #Landsat and Japan’s ALOS-2 satellite, dark red areas are likely to have severe damage to buildings, homes, and infrastructure or changes to the landscape. Orange and yellow areas are moderately or partially damaged.
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NASA and other agencies are using satellites to map damage caused by the 7.8 and 7.5 earthquakes in southern Türkiye and western Syria on Feb. 6. https://go.nasa.gov/3lp7K22
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As new data become available, NASA’s Earth Applied Sciences team is posting near real-time imagery and data products related to the earthquake on its mapping portal.

Get the updates: https://go.nasa.gov/3jPsHTq
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A dried-out Lake Hamun means more dust storms.

The seasonal lake in the Sistan Basin of eastern Iran and southern Afghanistan has been shrinking, reducing vegetation cover and exposing silt and dust. This makes the area a major source of dust storms. https://go.nasa.gov/3RJ79UZ
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This is just one dust storm, but the cumulative effect of Earth's dust storms can have significant effects on the atmosphere.

A UCLA research team found airborne dust has likely increased by 55% on a global scale since pre-industrial times. https://go.nasa.gov/3RJ79UZ
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The series of maps below show dust spreading toward the south over Pakistan, India, and the Arabian Sea during six-hour intervals on January 12.

The data came from NASA’s Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) modeling system.
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NASA is committed to #OpenScience – making our data, tools, and resources free and accessible.

At 10:45 ET, Chelle Gentemann, project scientist for @nasa TOPS, is speaking about open science at the @un @unlibrary Open Science Conference.

Stream here: http://bit.ly/3YvAMeA
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NASA, along with the @WhiteHouse and other federal agencies, has declared 2023 a #YearOfOpenScience to celebrate the benefits and successes created through the open sharing of data, information, and knowledge.

Learn more: http://bit.ly/3jFWAoW
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Widespread #fires have been raging through south-central Chile since Feb. 2, 2023.

NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired this image of the fires on Feb. 3 showing smoke billowing from Santa Juana, south of Concepción, out to the Pacific Ocean. https://go.nasa.gov/3RK42Mj
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This false-color #Landsat 8 image shows fires near Santa Juana

It combines shortwave infrared, near infrared, and visible light to make it easier to identify the unburned vegetated areas (green) and recently burned landscapes (brown). Active fires are shown in red.
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Buckle up, this will be a bumpy ride! 🛩️ 🌨️

Scientists with @nasa IMPACTS took off from @NASA_Wallops and flew straight into snowstorms to learn how clouds form. ☁️

Read about what it's like onboard: https://go.nasa.gov/40ztmc1
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Got your head in the clouds this weekend? Us too. ☁️😊☁️

This time-lapse video shows open-celled and closed-cell marine stratocumulus clouds. Imagery is from @noaa’s GOES-17 satellite, which @nasa helped develop and launch.

More: https://go.nasa.gov/3X2Jxf3
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A meeting of two worlds 🌊🐦

The waters off Australia’s famed Eighty Mile Beach are inhabited by whales, dolphins, and dugongs, while its sandy coastline is one of Australia’s most important environments for migratory shorebirds. https://go.nasa.gov/3YbUWtP
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The photograph was taken from the @Space_Station by the EarthKAM camera. Despite its name, the Eighty Mile Beach is 140 miles long (220 kilometers).
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In eastern Congo, a large, slow-moving landslide is accelerating and putting a community at risk. A new NASA study using satellite data shows how changing water usage in the city of Bukavu influences land movements near and just below the surface.

More: https://go.nasa.gov/3HWeEob
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In these visualizations, strain rates indicate zones of stretching, shearing, and shortening at the landslide surface. NISAR, a mission set to launch in 2024, could help provide even better information on these processes.
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NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites helped meteorologists determine that marine stratocumulus clouds are relatively common.

On average, they cover ~15% of Earth’s total surface.
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Organized marine stratocumulus clouds, found in the subtropics and midlatitudes, take two forms; open-celled and closed-cell.

Recent studies have found that smoke, dust, and aerosols can affect the formation of open- and closed-cell clouds.

Full story: http://go.nasa.gov/3DDJVtI
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Hope you don't have your head in the clouds, because it's time for a pop quiz!

What kind of clouds are these?☁️
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Hey Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF)! 👋💚 Heard you're passing through the neighborhood. 🌎
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These images show roughly the same area in false-color to better distinguish water (blue) and land (brown and green).

The left image shows more typical conditions; the right image is from after the storm.
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Heavy rain from Tropical Cyclone Cheneso caused flash floods and landslides along Madagascar’s northwestern coast. 🌧️

This @nasa satellite image shows brown sediment-laden floodwater pouring toward the Mozambique Channel. https://go.nasa.gov/3JwMst6
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These false-color images show a detailed view of the Betsiboka River acquired by #Landsat 9. Flooding was widespread when the image was taken on Jan. 27, 2023.
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This collaboration will use new AI technologies to provide an easier way for researchers to analyze large NASA datasets and learn new things about our home planet. 🌏 https://go.nasa.gov/3H3Ht0p
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Did you get it right?

The #Landsat 9 images show a snow-covered desert landscape and sand dunes near the Keriya River in the Xinjiang region of western China, taken after a powerful winter storm earlier this month. ❄️https://go.nasa.gov/3JvzlZu
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In this wider, false-color image taken on the same day by the Suomi NPP satellite, snow appears blue in southern Xinjiang.
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