NASA Sensing Our Planet 2017 features 25 researchers from Canada, Chile, China, France, Norway,...
Click here to find Sensing Our Planet online. High-resolution imageBoulder, Colo.—The NASA Earth science data centers highlight the work of twenty-five researchers worldwide in...
Researchers, ski safety experts develop new tool that maps potential avalanches
A researcher prepares to use a laser scanning (lidar) unit to scan snow depth at the Arapahoe Ski Basin Ski area in Keystone, Colorado....
Arctic sea ice at 7th lowest September
Arctic sea ice extent for September 2017 was 4.87 million square kilometers (1.88 million square miles). The magenta line shows the 1981 to 2010...
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Earth's Future http://doi.org/bzpc (2017)
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