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Bringing Data to Life

This data-driven animation of carbon dioxide emissions moving around the planet is driven by massive climate data sets and highly detailed emissions maps, illustrating the impact of power plants, fires, and cities on our planet. 

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Earth Information Center

For more than 50 years, NASA satellites have provided data on Earth's land, water, air, temperature, and climate. NASA's Earth Information Center allows visitors to see how our planet is changing in six key areas: sea level rise and coastal impacts, health and air quality, wildfires, greenhouse gases, sustainable energy, and agriculture.

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Popocatépetl, one of Mexico’s most active volcanoes, continued to spew gases and ash in October 2024.

On This Day: Apollo 12 Lands on the Moon

On Nov. 19, 1969, astronaut Alan L. Bean, lunar module pilot for the Apollo 12 mission, begins to step off the ladder of the lunar module to join astronaut Charles Conrad Jr., mission commander, in a spacewalk. Conrad and Bean descended in the Apollo 12 lunar module to explore the moon while astronaut Richard F. Gordon Jr., command module pilot, remained with the command and service modules in lunar orbit.

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Affirming Native Voices

Each November, NASA commemorates National Native American Heritage Month by celebrating the traditions, languages, stories, and cultures of Indigenous peoples who have shaped our country since before its beginning. We are proud to honor Indigenous communities and their contributions to NASA’s mission. 

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Astronaut John B. Herrington, STS-113 mission specialist, traverses along a truss on the International Space Station during the mission's third spacewalk.
Astronaut John B. Herrington, STS-113 mission specialist, traverses along a truss on the International Space Station during the mission’s third spacewalk.

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