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NASA operates state-of-the-art platforms that collect critical information about our home planet. Drill down to the data and tools you need by exploring platforms on Earth and in the sky.

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Atmosphere

The atmosphere is a gaseous envelope surrounding and protecting our planet from the intense radiation of the Sun.

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The biosphere encompasses all life on Earth and extends from root systems to mountaintops and all depths of the ocean.

Climate Indicators

Climate Indicators hold key information for the most relevant domains of climate change: temperature and energy, atmospheric composition, ocean and water as well as the cryosphere.

Cryosphere

The cryosphere encompasses the frozen parts of Earth, including glaciers and ice sheets, sea ice, and any other frozen body of water.

Human Dimensions

The human dimensions discipline includes ways humans interact with the environment and how these interactions impact Earth’s systems.

Land Surface

The land surface discipline includes research into areas such as shrinking forests, warming land, and eroding soils.

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This vast, critical reservoir supports a diversity of life and helps regulate Earth’s climate.

Solid Earth

Processes occurring deep within Earth constantly are shaping landforms.

Sun-Earth Interactions

The Sun influences physical and chemical processes in Earth’s atmosphere.

Terrestrial Hydrosphere

The terrestrial hydrosphere includes water on the land surface and underground in the form of lakes, rivers, and groundwater along with total water storage.
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Find all of the resources we have available for the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) community, as well as our archive of StoryMaps.

Data in Action

Data in Action demonstrates Earth science data applications with interactive explanations as to how the work was accomplished.

Data Recipes

Data Recipes are code-based instructions that help data scientists accomplish a specific task, such as converting data into a specific format for analysis or visualization.

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Trainings are interactive opportunities to develop technical skills with NASA Earth science data.

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Tutorials are step by step “how to” content that cover a broad range of tasks, from data collection to visualization.

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Webinars are video seminars featuring experts in various disciplines who share their knowledge in a particular subject area, from data in the cloud to specific data tools.

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All of the resources for the airborne and field data community within our program can be found here.
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