EarthRise to Artemis II: NASA’s Evolving View of a Changing Earth
TL;DR
NASA marks Earth Day by recounting how Earth observation has advanced—from Apollo 8’s Earthrise to Artemis II’s Earthset—through radar and imaging missions like NISAR and INCUS, plus ongoing data from PACE and VIIRS, to monitor sea level rise, ice loss, weather, and urban growth and to inform agriculture, wildfires, droughts, floods, and other hazards.
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