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Assessing the Nature of the U.S.

NASA representatives are part of the National Nature Assessment, which will take stock of U.S. lands, waters, wildlife, and ecosystems.
News
Aug. 19, 2024
This rectangular image shows phytoplankton levels along Florida and the East Coast of the United States, the Bahamas, and Cuba. Land is colored in muted shades of brown and green, water is dark blue, and snow is white. Nearshore are bands of light to dark green depicting picoeukaryote organism levels. Further out to sea are regions in variations of light blue showing the presences of prochlorococcus cyanobacteria.

New PACE Data Tutorials

A series of Jupyter notebook tutorials show how to retrieve and use data from NASA's Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission.
News
May 31, 2024
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Worldview Adds 15 New Data Layers

New ocean color, nighttime lights, corrected reflectance, and other layers have been added to Worldview's extensive catalog of satellite imagery.
News
May 14, 2024
False-color corrected reflectance image of Lake Volta in Ghana from the VIIRS instrument aboard the Suomi NPP satellite on 16 March 2024

Lake Volta, Ghana

Image captured March 16, 2024, by the VIIRS instrument aboard the joint NASA/NOAA Suomi NPP satellite.
Worldview Image of the Week
March 21, 2024
This is an image showing simulated chlorophyll concentrations in the ocean on March 21, 2022. The image has a black background. Regions colored in blue represent areas of low chlorophyll concentration, green are medium, and red areas have high levels. The image has strips of black running through the colored areas from the upper left to the lower right to show PACE’s orbital track around the globe and places across the ocean where it has not scanned.

Preparing for PACE Data

Simulated data help Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) users prepare a day in the life of the new satellite.
Feature Article
Feb. 28, 2024
Dr. Philip Brodrick stands before a mountainous and forested landscape.

Dr. Philip Brodrick

NASA has long used imaging spectroscopy to peer into space. Now, scientists are using the technology to take a closer look at Earth.
Data User Story
Feb. 15, 2024
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