We often focus on space observatories that peer beyond Earth. But the vast majority of satellites stare right back at us.

Caption Africa is front and center in this image of Earth taken by a NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite. The image, taken July 6 from a vantage point one million ...

For decades, scientists have had better maps of the Moon and Mars than of Earth’s own ocean floor. But thanks to NASA’s ...

The remains of the rocket are from a Falcon 9 that launched in February 2015. The rocket launched to deliver a NASA satellite, the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), into orbit. Instead of ...

AIM is a NASA satellite mission to study how polar mesospheric ... reflected from Earth in wavelength bands covering most of the solar spectrum. The Deep Space Climate Observatory is a NOAA-led ...

Amid the satellite party, we also have climate ... from space. Snow is notoriously difficult to quantify; we can see the area it covers, but it's still difficult to sense how deep it is and ...

The rocket was deployed in 2015 to put into orbit a NASA satellite called the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR).

Accurate seafloor maps are also important for an improved understanding of deep ... Earth Observatory The global map of seafloor features is based on ocean height data from the SWOT satellite.

First thought to be a SpaceX Falcon rocket stage that launched NASA's Deep Space Climate Observatory in 2015 ... the payload (typically a spacecraft or satellite) into orbit.