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New Orleans power outage seen via satellite imagery
After Hurricane Ida, New Orleans experienced power outages. The NASA Earth Observatory show the outages by comparing night lights on August 31, 2021 against night lights on August 9, 2021: VIIRS has a...
View ArticleA view from the Moon’s south pole
NASA Goddard visualized the point of view from the south pole of the Moon, based on years of data collection to map the Moon’s surface. The result is a data-based time-lapse that shows Earth moving up...
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Animated map of microplastics in the ocean
Using estimates based on satellite data, Joshua Stevens for NASA Earth Observatory mapped the concentration of microplastics in the ocean over time: Researchers at the University of Michigan (UM)...
View ArticleNASA solar probe touched the sun
NASA launched the Parker Solar Probe in 2018 in an effort to explore closer to the sun. The probe recently flew through and out of the Sun’s upper atmosphere to successfully sample particles and...
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Launching a telescope to explore the Big Bang
NASA is launching the James Webb Space Telescope on December 22, 2021 with an objective to collect data on light from 13.8 billion light-years away. Using 3-D models from NASA, Rahul Mukherjee and...
View ArticleClimate spiral to show temperature change
Say what you will about circular visualization, but the spiral plays. This one from NASA shows global temperature change over time: The visualization presents monthly global temperature anomalies...
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A lot of galaxies
NASA released an image from the Webb First Deep Field telescope, which shows a whole lot of galaxies: Thousands of galaxies – including the faintest objects ever observed in the infrared – have...
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Why the galaxy pictures from the Webb telescope are pretty cool
The first public picture from the James Webb telescope is kind of cool and all, but you can’t fully appreciate it unless you know what those glowing blobs represent and how they came to be. For...
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Differing approaches between SpaceX and NASA to sending rockets to the moon
For The Washington Post, William Neff, Aaron Steckelberg, and Christian Davenport show the contrast between NASA and SpaceX using a scrolly tour through 3-D rocket models. Tags: 3-d, moon, NASA, space,...
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Objects in space headed towards Earth
NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies tracks large objects, such as asteroids, that have passed Earth or are headed towards it. Reuters visualized the nearest objects in the database. The graphic...
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