The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, located in Katmai National Park, forms a unique and ashen landscape. Encircled by volcanoes – both active and inactive – it has served as a perfect collection area for huge amounts of volcanic ash.
Water departments in the West are using maps and models originally created by a NASA team to help track water.
NASA and Google broadened an existing partnership to help local governments improve their monitoring and prediction of air quality for better decision making.
On December 18, 2019 Terra celebrated it’s 20th year in orbit. To mark this milestone scientists, engineers, and Terra enthusiasts, gathered together at events in San Francisco as part of the American Geophysical Union conference and Greenbelt, Maryland where Goddard Space Flight Center is located.
Presentations highlighting the past, present and future of the mission were given by a number of people involved in the longevity of Terra’s mission.