NASA’s favorite (habitable) planet. 🌎💚 Studying Earth from ground to orbit.
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ALT A satellite's-eye view from October 2022 of the Adirondack Mountains of northeast New York during fall. The leaves on trees are a fiery orange and red. Some trees remain green. White fluffy clouds are visible at the edges of the image.
ALT A group of interns is gathered around a large red sculpture of the NASA worm logo outside of NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC.
ALT A diagram depicting the partial lunar eclipse occuring on Aug 28, with times in UTC marking the different stages of the eclipse. Credit: NASA's Scientific VIsualization Studio
ALT A black background with a thin white crescent on the left representing the Earth, and a thin off-white crescent on the right represents the Moon.
ALT On a pitch-black background sits a bright circle on the left filled with yellow, orange, and red and surrounded by a faint halo of purple. On the right, is a circle outlined with a white line, filled with black and a thin purple crescent on the right side of the circle.
ALT A satellite view of a large green lake showing swirling patterns of algae in the water. The lake is surrounded by rugged, brown mountain terrain with a small rocky island near the lower center. Lighter, dried shoreline areas appear along the top and sides, contrasting with the deep green water.
ALT This image shows the Moon’s shadow on Earth during the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, as seen from about 90,000 feet from a camera carried by a scientific balloon. Earth's atmosphere is also visible in this image, with its distinctive glow. Credit: Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project/Virginia Tech
ALT Lilly stands in front of a window looking into Goddard's large clean room. She is smiling and wearing a badge on a lanyard around her neck. The Roman space telescope and a sign with the NASA Goddard logo are visible in the clean room. Text in the upper left says "Meet Lilly" with an arrow pointing to her.
ALT Aavik sits next to a computer screen, smiling with his arms crossed. He is wearing a badge on a lanyard. The computer is on a small desk in an office. The screen shows a program with code over much of it. Text in the upper right says "Meet Aavik" with an arrow pointing to him.
ALT A satellite image of the Great Lakes area. Bright white clouds cover the right half of the image, where little to no land is seen below them. On the left side of the image, gray-tan wispy smoke streaks the image, traveling from top to bottom. Beneath the smoke, green and brown land can be seen, as well as the dark blues of the large Great Lakes.
ALT A satellite view of land, water and smoke. Land is a light brown covering the top, left, and right portions of the image. The right side of the image is splotched with white snow. Between the land is ocean water, usually in a deep blue color, but sometimes swirling with blue and green sediment near the shore. On the left side of the image, wisps of light brown smoke glide over the land from top to bottom.
