On April 18, I had the opportunity to participate in the launch of the newest version of Google Earth, which now includes some collaboration with the NASA Earth Observatory. The Google Earth team even ...

The global ocean is made up of five major ocean basins: the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern and Arctic Ocean. The Pacific Ocean is the largest of these basins as well as the deepest. Its expanse ...

The global ocean is made up of five major ocean basins: the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern and Arctic Ocean. The Pacific Ocean is the largest of these basins as well as the deepest. Its expanse ...

Vanguard II hangs in the atrium of the Earth sciences building at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: NASA/Tabatha Luskey The shiny metallic orb hanging in the Earth sciences building at ...

Remember the year 2000? Bill Clinton was president of the United States, Faith Hill and Santana topped Billboard music charts, and the world’s computers had just “survived” the Y2K bug. It also was ...

Update on 4/25: This Landsat image shows Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument in the winter. Congratulations to Mike and Charles for being the first readers to identify the location. Every ...

Every month on Earth Matters, we offer a puzzling satellite image. The April 2025 puzzler is shown above. Your challenge is to use the comments section to tell us where it is, what we are looking at, ...

Earth Day (8,192 by 8,192 pixels, 9.1 MB JPEG) Earth Night (8,192 by 8,192 pixels, 4.2 MB JPEG) ...

Earth Day (8,192 by 8,192 pixels, 9.1 MB JPEG) ...

Just as the incoming and outgoing energy at the Earth’s surface must balance, the flow of energy into the atmosphere must be balanced by an equal flow of energy out of the atmosphere and back to space ...

Earth Matters occasionally publishes interviews with earth scientists from around NASA. Here we feature Santiago Gassó, research associate at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. What is most ...