ICESat-2 Stories

Tundra Vegetation to Grow Taller, Greener Through 2100, NASA Study Finds

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Warming global climate is changing the vegetation structure of forests in the far north. It’s a trend that will continue at least through the end of this century, according to NASA researchers. The change in forest structure could absorb more…

Article1 month ago
An image of the Sun shows a bright flash in the bottom right side where a solar flare erupts.

How NASA Tracked the Most Intense Solar Storm in Decades

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May 2024 has already proven to be a particularly stormy month for our Sun. During the first full week of May, a barrage of large solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) launched clouds of charged particles and magnetic fields…

Article4 months ago

That’s No Meteor: NASA Satellite’s Elusive Green Lasers Spotted at Work

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For the first time, NASA’s ICESat-2 team has seen footage of the satellite’s green laser beams streaming from orbit to Earth

Article1 year ago