1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (374+ words) NASA’s exaggerated 3D geoid model utilizes 15 years of GRACE satellite data to reveal Earth’s true gravitational shape and track catastrophic climate shifts. From the freezing vacuum of deep space, the Earth appears as a pristine, geometrically perfect \"Blue Marble.\" However, a…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (473+ words) NASA’s newly released image of Earth has sparked intense debate across social media. Unlike the familiar blue sphere that has represented the planet for decades, this version appears as an irregular shape covered with bulges and depressions, resembling a lump…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (294+ words) The science-minded guest also weighs in on whether the planets could fit between Earth and the moon. A deadpan joke about Uranus turned into a social media moment for Kalpana Pot, and she walked through how that happened during an…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (501+ words) NASA has released a 3D visualization based on more than a billion satellite observations, showing the true shape of Earth. For years, we were taught that Earth was an almost perfect sphere. But the reality is much more intriguing. NASA has…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (157+ words) Pasadena Now NASA’s newest class of suborbital Earth science missions is preparing for flight, with the first mission set to study dangerous wildfire-generated storm clouds using aircraft-mounted instruments, including infrared wildfire trackers developed by Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. NASA’s…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (215+ words) Scientists from the Center for Lunar Origin and Evolution, a virtual NASA organization led by Southwest Research Institute, studied materials excavated when a large impactor created the ancient South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin (blue), a massive structure on the Moon’s far…...