The Orpheus submersible robot is being developed by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and JPL to explore the deep ocean autonomously. Orpheus uses vision-based navigation that…
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It’s official: 2020 ranks as the second-hottest year on record for the planet, knocking 2019 down to third hottest, according to an analysis by NOAA…
The first and only total solar eclipse of 2020 occurred on December 14, with the path of totality stretching from the equatorial Pacific to the…
November 16, 2020. (Click image for full view.) Less than two weeks after being hit by category 4 Hurricane Eta, several Central American countries braced…
This split image shows the difference between an active Sun during solar maximum (on the left, captured in April 2014) and a quiet Sun during…
NOAA-NASA’s Suomi NPP was able to image this nighttime image of the California fires on Aug. 20, 2020. This image does not have the Visible…
July 9, 2020 When the usually chilly Great Lakes feel like bath water, you know it has been a warm summer. When the water is…
Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NOAA/NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite captured this image of the Bighorn Fire on June 22,…
Solar storms may scramble whales’ navigational sense, as evidenced by a new study that found gray whales were 4.3 times more likely to strand when…
Captured in the wild and raised in tanks at UC Davis, Sacramento splittail show spinal deformities traced to exposure to selenium. Scientists used the fishes’…
Killer whales in Antarctica, as shown here, often display a yellow coloration due to diatom accumulation on their skin, evidence that they are not sloughing…
NASA’s LHASA landslide risk model and Global Landslide Catalog track the areas most at risk from deadly landslides, which can cause effects ranging from destroying…
Emily Osborne, a marine scientist with NOAA’s Ocean Acidification Program, examines a sediment sample taken from the Santa Barbara Basin off California which contains recently…
NOAA-NASA captured this stunning satellite image of the areas affected by the fire and smoke on January 4, 2020. The rains did not come in…
This satellite image was collected by NOAA-NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite using the VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) instrument on January 1, 2020. Actively burning…
On the right, satellite composition of El Nino in 1997, and on the left, El Nino in 2015. Both were extreme El Nino events that…
New research finds the Arctic’s oldest and thickest ice is more mobile and is vanishing twice as fast as ice in the rest of the…
A scribbled filefish, about 50 days old and 2 inches long, surrounded by plastics. Credit: David Liitschwager New research shows that many larval fish species…
The 2019 ozone hole reached its peak extent of 6.3 million square miles (16. 4 million square kilometers) on Sept. 8. Abnormal weather patterns in…
The Jason-2/OSTM satellite provided insights into ocean currents and sea-level rise with tangible benefits to marine forecasting, meteorology, and understanding of climate change. These observations…