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A satellite image from NASA’s Earth Observing System Data and Information System shows Agnes enveloping the country.

The UAF Alaska Satellite Facility manages NASA satellite data, and its workload will soon increase with a new US-India project.

Looking for the latest Government Contracting News? Read about University of Alaska Books $70M Contract to Continue Services for NASA's Radar Archive Center.

Lake Dian in Kunming, the capital of southwest China’s Yunnan province, suffered greatly when, in the 1950s, Chairman Mao Zedong called on the Chinese people to “conquer nature” and reclaim land by filling lakes with soil.Nowadays, Dianchi, as it’s known in Chinese, effectively acts as Kunming’s main sewage dump—its pollution is a persistent and at times stinky problem for

Smoke from what is believed to be the largest wildfire in the UK was so big it was seen from space.

A more accessible, open data-sharing infrastructure will engage a broader community of contributors, helping to develop satellite data products that benefit Earth science research and applications.

Striking photos from space show the Sierra and Southern California mountain ranges beginning to shed their record snowpack as weather warms up.

Looking for the latest Government Contracting News? Read about University of Colorado Boulder to Manage NASA Snow & Ice Distributed Active Archive Center

Under a contract valued at $68 million, the NSIDC will provide data management services focused on preserving, documenting and providing access to cryospheric data and related geophysical data. This is the seventh time the NSIDC has been selected for the work.

NASA gave one of its highest national honors to UAF’s Nettie La Belle-Hamer for her work in synthetic aperture radar.