News
April 20, 2010
An instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft is helping officials accurately estimate the heights of the massive ash plumes emitted by Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano.
Dec. 17, 2009
At the age of 10, NASA's flagship Terra spacecraft continues to enrich our understanding of Earth's ocean, land and atmosphere.
Aug. 31, 2009
Triple-digit temperatures, extremely low relative humidities, dense vegetation that has not burned in decades, and years of extended drought are all contributing to the explosive growth of wildfires throughout Southern California.
May 31, 2007
When it comes to air pollution, the smallest size can do the most harm.
June 6, 2006
The collapse of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and the fires that followed produced a noxious smoke plume, a complex mixture of tiny airborne particles and gases.
July 20, 2005
A huge dust cloud blown westward from the Algerian desert is now wafting over the southeastern United States.
Jan. 27, 2005
Scientists studying satellite data have discovered an immense wintertime pool of pollution over the northern Indian state of Bihar.
Jan. 19, 2005
Newly released imagery from three NASA spaceborne instruments/missions sheds valuable insights into the Indian Ocean tsunami that resulted from the magnitude 9 earthquake southwest of Sumatra on December 26.
Dec. 7, 2004
New multiangle applications emphasized at MISR Science Team Meeting.
Sept. 14, 2004
Hurricanes Frances and Ivan provide a wealth of information.
Aug. 18, 2004
Scientists Study Desert Air to Understand Weather and Climate.
July 14, 2004
Mark Helmlinger and a team of "irregulars" from Oxford University, take ground measurements in support of vicarious calibration and other campaigns.
Feb. 7, 2003
Think of them as the Good Witches whizzing around the globe daily on their techno "broomsticks" in space.
Feb. 5, 2003
Unique capabilities allow researchers to view major earthquake.
Jan. 22, 2003
Australian antennas of NASA's Deep Space Network used for communicating with spacecraft
Jan. 7, 2003
Houston has a serious air quality problem.
Sept. 5, 2002
The Gauteng province in South Africa, site of this week’s United Nations’ second World Summit on Sustainable Development.
May 1, 2002
What appears to be a paisley pattern stitched by nature has been observed by MISR.