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Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) GLISTIN-A & AXCTD - Animated GIF

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Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) ship & AIRGrav instrument - Animated GIF

Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) ship & airborne AIRGrav instrument

Animation depicting a ship collecting measurements of the depth and shape of the sea floor, as well as an aircraft measuring free-air gravity with the AIRGrav instrument, which also provides information about the depth of the ocean.

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Visualization of a gravity model created with data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE).

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This visualization shows total sea level change between 1992 and 2019, based on data collected from the TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1, Jason-2, and Jason-3 satellites.

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Video: 27-Year Sea Level Rise

Animation of the average yearly change in global land ice mass during 2003-2010 from all of the world's glaciers and ice caps (excluding Greenland and Antarctica).

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Global mass balance from GRACE

Visualization that captures sea surface temperature anomalies around the world from 1982 to 2017.

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Video: Sea surface temperature anomaly timeline: 1982-2017

Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich will join a long-standing family of Earth-observing satellites from NASA and European partners, including EUMETSAT and the French space agency CNES.

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Video: Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Satellite Family Tree

Explore Kaneohe Bay with NASA’s CORAL scientists. During field campaigns, scientists take in-water (in situ) measurements to validate the data from airborne instruments.

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Video: Explore Kaneohe Bay with NASA's CORAL scientists

Visualization of the formation of an El Niño event towards the end of 2009 followed by a 2010 La Niña event.

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2009 El Niño and 2010 La Niña

Whiteboard animation on the basic science behind sea level rise.

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Video: NASA's Earth Minute - Sea level rise

Images from GRACE satellite data show Greenland ice mass changes since 2003.

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Greenland ice loss 2003-2013

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Video: NASA's Earth Minute - Greenland ice

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Regional assessments of glacier mass

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RapidScat observes El Niño

NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) and Operation IceBridge missions investigate Greenland's thinning ice sheets from above and below.

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Greenland's thinning ice

Animated GIF of the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite, scheduled to launch in November 2020.

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Animated GIF: Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich

Animation showing changes in Antarctic ice mass since 2002 based on satellite data.

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Video: Antarctic Ice Mass Loss 2002-2020

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The great Ice Age glaciers rise and fall in thousands of years per second.

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