Earth from Orbit 2019: How NASA Satellites #PictureEarth
Music: After the Sun by Andrew Michael Britton [PRS], David Stephen Goldsmith [PRS], Andrew Skeet [PRS]
Complete transcript available.
This Earth Day, NASA invites you to share how you #PictureEarth. For inspiration, NASA collected some of the best and most inconic satellite images and data visualizations capture over the last year. NASA's space-based view of our planet, and the way it's changing, helps humans understand Earth better.
Image Sources:
International Space Station: Clouds and Continents
https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/BeyondThePhotography/CrewEarthObservationsVideos/
Earth Observing Fleet (June 2018)
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4662
A Clear Spring View of the Great Lakes
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/144747/a-clear-spring-view-of-the-great-lakes
A Spacecraft’s Journey to the Space Station
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/144408/a-spacecrafts-journey-to-the-space-station
Etna Awakens on its Side
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/144493/etna-awakens-on-its-side
Urban Growth in Las Vegas
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30215
Pinwheel Squares in Bolivia
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/144717/pinwheel-squares-in-bolivia
Aquaculture in China
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/144624/seaweed-and-fish-world
Growth of Medina, Saudi Arabia
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/144471/living-on-lava
Phytoplankton Bloom in the Baltic Sea
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/144643/jupiter-or-earth
Typhoon Mangkhut
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/92749/mangkhut-bearing-down-on-the-philippines
Hurricane Maria and Disaster Recovery in Puerto Rico
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4658
Damage to El Yunque National Forest, Puerto Rico
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4621
Global Temperature Anomalies from 1880 to 2018
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4626
City Lights from the International Space Station
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/92912/earth-awash-in-lights-of-the-night
Earth’s Magnetosphere
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4663
Ozonewatch 2018
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30985
Sea Ice Maximum Extent 2018
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4628
Annual Arctic Sea Ice Minimum 1979 - 2018
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4686
Average Motion of Greenland Ice Sheet
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4688
Wide View of a Shrinking Glacier: Retreat at Pine Island
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/pine-island
Changes of the Padma River
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/world-of-change/PadmaRiver
Evolution of the Meteorological Observing System
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4654
Global Fire Weather Database
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4634
Tropical Storm Michael Drenches the Carolinas
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4692
GPM Captures Super Typhoon Mangkhut Approaching the Philippines
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4682
Ice Cube Cubesat Measures High Altitude Atmospheric Ice
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4636
Interface to Space: The Equatorial Fountain
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4617
Midsummer Sunrise, Gulf of Saint Lawrence
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/92622/midsummer-sunrise-gulf-of-saint-lawrence
Love in the Air: Von Kármán Vortices
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/144556/love-is-in-the-air
Cloudy Congo River Basin
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/144608/cloudy-congo-river-basin
Europe at Night
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/NightLights
International Space Station: Canada at Night
https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/BeyondThePhotography/CrewEarthObservationsVideos/
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Producer
- Katie Jepson (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Production assistant
- Kathryn Mersmann (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Annual Arctic Sea Ice Minimum 1979-2019 with Area Graph
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Global Temperature Anomalies from 1880 to 2018
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Evolution of the Meteorological Observing System in the MERRA-2 Reanalysis
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El Yunque National Forest, Puerto Rico Canopy Change Nadir View (2017-2018)
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ID: 4658 Visualization
NASA's Black Marble night lights used to examine disaster recovery in Puerto Rico
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ID: 4692 Visualization
Tropical Storm Michael Drenches the Carolinas
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ID: 4686 Visualization
Annual Arctic Sea Ice Minimum 1979-2018 with Area Graph
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ID: 4662 Visualization
Earth Observing Fleet (June 2018)
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ID: 4636 Visualization
Ice Cube Cubesat Measures High Altitude Atmospheric Ice
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ID: 4628 Visualization
Sea Ice Maximum extent 2018
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ID: 4617 Visualization
Interface to Space: The Equatorial Fountain
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