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Evidence for a Chaotic Solar System

shale and limestone near Big Bend, Texas

Plumbing a 90 million-year-old layer cake of sedimentary rock in Colorado, a team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Northwestern University has found evidence confirming a critical theory of how the planets in our solar system behave in their orbits around the Sun.

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Earth from Space: Ötztal Alps, Austria

Earth from Space: Ötztal Alps, Austria.

The Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite takes us over the Ötztal Alps in the western Austrian state of Tyrol in this image from 16 October 2016.

NASA: Snow Science Supporting the U.S. Water Supply

Researchers have completed the first flights of a NASA-led field campaign that is targeting one of the biggest gaps in scientists' understanding of Earth's water resources: snow.

Saving Government Climate Data: NASAWatch on PBS NewsHour

Keith Cowing, editor of NASAWatch appeared tonight in a PBS NewsHour segment titled "How scientists are scrambling to safeguard vital environmental data".

NASA Test Robotic Concepts in Antarctica

Mt. Erebus is at the end of our world -- and offers a portal to another.

The Bahamas Seen From Orbit

Shane Kimbrough @astro_kimbrough Striking beauty of the Bahamas!

Earth from Space: Sicilian Space, Italy

Part of the Italian island of Sicily is pictured in this false-colour image from the Sentinel-2A satellite.

Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission Heads For New Orbit

On Feb. 9, 2017, NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, known as MMS, began a three-month long journey into a new orbit.

New Details of Ice Loss In Greenland

Less than a year after the first research flight kicked off NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland campaign last March, data from the new program are providing a dramatic increase in knowledge of how Greenland's ice sheet is melting from below.

Earth from Space: Musa Bay, Iran

Iran's Musa Bay on the northern end of the Persian Gulf is pictured in this image from the Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite on 13 January 2017.

Underwater Volcanic Eruption Near Tongatapu Seen From Space

Murray Ford was scanning satellite imagery of a young island in Tonga called Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai when he noticed something odd--a turquoise plume of water--in the corner of an image.

Earth from Space: Western Texas

An area over the western end of the US state of Texas is pictured in this image from the Sentinel-2A satellite from 13 March 2016.

Using Satellites To Map Amazon Biodiversity and Aid In Conservation

Researchers have used remote sensing data to map out the functional diversity of forests in the Peruvian Andes and Amazon basin, a technique that has revealed hotspots for conservation.

NASA Observes Extreme Rainfall Over Southern California

NASA calculated California's rainfall over seven days using a constellation of satellites and created a map to provide the visual extent of the large rainfall totals.

First Images From GOES-16

Since the GOES-16 satellite lifted off from Cape Canaveral on November 19, scientists, meteorologists and ordinary weather enthusiasts have anxiously waited for the first photos from NOAA's newest weather satellite, GOES-16, formerly GOES-R.

Earth from Space: Big Island, Hawaii

The volcanic landscape of the largest island in the Hawaiian archipelago is pictured in this Sentinel-2A satellite image.

Data Shows That 2016 Was The Warmest Year on Record Globally

Earth's 2016 surface temperatures were the warmest since modern recordkeeping began in 1880, according to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Earth from Space: Saint Petersburg, Russia

The snow-covered Russian city of Saint Petersburg on the Neva Bay is pictured in this image from the Sentinel-2A satellite.

Storms Affecting the Western U.S. Seen From Space

NASA/NOAA's GOES Project created a satellite animation showing the storms affecting the region from January 6 through 9, 2017, and NASA's Aqua satellite captured a look at the snowfall.

Evidence for a Chaotic Solar System View

Earth from Space: Ötztal Alps, Austria View

Earth from Space: Ötztal Alps, Austria

Saving Government Climate Data: NASAWatch on PBS NewsHour

Earth from Space: Sicilian Space, Italy

Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission Heads For New Orbit

Earth from Space: Musa Bay, Iran

Earth from Space: Western Texas

Earth from Space: Big Island, Hawaii

Earth from Space: Saint Petersburg, Russia

Earth from Space: Sentinel-2 Special Edition

Earth from Space: China's Tian Shan Mountains

Evidence for a Chaotic Solar System

Earth from Space: Ötztal Alps, Austria