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Spell your name with satellite imagery

Maps / Landsat, names, NASA, satellite imagery

Here’s a fun interactive from NASA Landsat that lets you enter your name…
Visualization of flying into a black hole

Infographics / black hole, NASA, space

Assuming you were still alive flying into a black hole, NASA’s Goddard Space…
Map of magnetic fields in the Milky Way

Maps / magnetic fields, Milky Way, NASA, Strange Maps

Based on data from NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), Villanova University…
Objects in space headed towards Earth

Infographics / asteroids, NASA, Reuters, scale, space

NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies tracks large objects, such as asteroids,…
Differing approaches between SpaceX and NASA to sending rockets to the moon

Infographics / 3-d, moon, NASA, space, SpaceX, Washington Post

For The Washington Post, William Neff, Aaron Steckelberg, and Christian Davenport show the…
Why the galaxy pictures from the Webb telescope are pretty cool

Infographics / NASA, Sergio Peçanha, telescope, Washington Post

The first public picture from the James Webb telescope is kind of cool…
A lot of galaxies

Visualization / galaxies, NASA, telescope

NASA released an image from the Webb First Deep Field telescope, which shows…
Climate spiral to show temperature change

Statistical Visualization / Ed Hawkins, NASA, temperature

Say what you will about circular visualization, but the spiral plays. This one…
Launching a telescope to explore the Big Bang

Infographics / Los Angeles Times, NASA, space, telescope

NASA is launching the James Webb Space Telescope on December 22, 2021 with…
NASA solar probe touched the sun

Infographics / NASA, Parker, sun

NASA launched the Parker Solar Probe in 2018 in an effort to explore closer to the sun.
Animated map of microplastics in the ocean

Maps / NASA, ocean, pollution

Using estimates based on satellite data, Joshua Stevens for NASA Earth Observatory mapped…
A view from the Moon’s south pole

Infographics / moon, NASA, space, time-lapse

NASA Goddard visualized the point of view from the south pole of the…
New Orleans power outage seen via satellite imagery

Maps / Hurricane Ida, lights, NASA, outage

After Hurricane Ida, New Orleans experienced power outages. The NASA Earth Observatory show…
Decade-long time-lapse of the sun

Maps / NASA, sun, time-lapse

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has been taking a picture of the sun every…
Map shows how NASA satellites collect global rain data

Maps / collection, NASA, precipitation, satellites

We can download data as a single snapshot in a single file, but…
Arctic ice melting

Maps / Arctic, climate, ice, NASA

One way to gauge the amount of ice in the Arctic is to…
Map shows long-term record of fires around the world

Maps / fire, NASA

For the NASA Earth Observatory, Adam Voiland describes about two decades of fires:…
Opportunity rover’s path on Mars

Maps / Jonathan Corum, Mars, NASA, New York Times, opportunity

After a most unforgiving dust storm on Mars, NASA ended the 14-year mission…
Real-time speed of light from Earth to Mars

Infographics / light, NASA, scale, speed

Hurry up, light. We’re gonna be late:
By James O’Donoghue, the animation shows…
Inside Hurricane Maria, a 3-D perspective

Statistical Visualization / 3-d, hurricane, NASA, VR

This 3-D view inside Hurricane Maria, from NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio and NASA’s…

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