NASA Earth Observatory is an online publishing outlet for
NASA which was created in 1999. It is the principal source of
satellite imagery
Satellite images (also Earth observation imagery, spaceborne photography, or simply satellite photo) are images of Earth collected by imaging satellites operated by governments and businesses around the world. Satellite imaging companies sell ima ...
and other scientific information pertaining to the
climate and the
environment
Environment most often refers to:
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* Natural environment, all living and non-living things occurring naturally
* Biophysical environment, the physical and biological factors along with their chemical interactions that affect an organism or ...
which are being provided by NASA for consumption by the general public. It is funded with public money, as authorized by the
United States Congress, and is part of the EOS Project Science Office located at
Goddard Space Flight Center
The Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is a major NASA space research laboratory located approximately northeast of Washington, D.C. in Greenbelt, Maryland, United States. Established on May 1, 1959 as NASA's first space flight center, GSFC empl ...
.
, NASA Earth Observatory has won the
Webby People's Voice Award in Education three times. There were a series of publicized images issued by the website in 2008, including imagery of clouds streaming over the
Caspian Sea, dust storms curling off the coast of
Morocco, the crumbling of the
Wilkins Ice Shelf Wilkins or Wilkin is a name variant of William, and may refer to:
People
Given name: Wilkin
* Wilkins (singer) (Germán Wilkins Vélez Ramírez, born 1953), Puerto Rican pop music singer and composer
* Wilkin Castillo (born 1984), Dominican b ...
,
Hurricane Bertha The name Bertha has been used for ten tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean.
* Tropical Storm Bertha (1957), a moderate tropical storm that threatened areas devastated by Hurricane Audrey two months earlier, but did not become a hurricane and ca ...
, and others.
See also
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Earth observation
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Earth observation satellite
An Earth observation satellite or Earth remote sensing satellite is a satellite used or designed for Earth observation (EO) from orbit, including spy satellites and similar ones intended for non-military uses such as environmental monitoring, me ...
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Space exploration
Space exploration is the use of astronomy and space technology to explore outer space. While the exploration of space is carried out mainly by astronomers with telescopes, its physical exploration though is conducted both by robotic spacec ...
References
External links
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NASA
NASA online
Geophysical observatories
Satellite imagery
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