{"id":8854,"date":"2026-04-21T21:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T21:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/ground_post\/new-nasa-views-of-earth-from-space\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T21:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T21:00:23","slug":"new-nasa-views-of-earth-from-space","status":"publish","type":"ground_post","link":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/ground_post\/new-nasa-views-of-earth-from-space\/","title":{"rendered":"New NASA Views of Earth, From (S)PACE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>NASA\u2019s photos of Earth released during Artemis II&#8217;s mission around the moon show our planet against the dark backdrop of space. Auroras illuminated the thin atmosphere, city lights dotted the outline of continents, and brown deserts gave way to green vegetation.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Are those city lights normally this bright? What kind of clouds are swirling over the <a>Atlantic Ocean<\/a>? Is that hazy brown bit dust, or smoke, or something else?<\/p>\n<p>To dig into the mysteries of our planet Earth, NASA has a fleet of satellites in orbit, gathering data around the clock. Join one of these satellites \u2014 the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem satellite (PACE), which launched in February 2024 \u2014 to explore its unique views of our home planet\u2019s ocean, atmosphere, and land surfaces.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Touring the Globe with PACE\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VlVv40A-6_k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/earth\/new-nasa-views-of-earth-from-space\/?rand=6382\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s photos of Earth released during Artemis II&#8217;s mission around the moon show our planet against the dark backdrop of space. Auroras illuminated the thin atmosphere, city lights dotted the outline of continents, and brown deserts gave way to green vegetation.\u00a0Are those city lights normally this bright? What kind of clouds are swirling over the Atlantic Ocean? Is that hazy&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":99049,"featured_media":8855,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[359,374,391,2229],"ground_category":[137,313],"class_list":["post-8854","ground_post","type-ground_post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-earth","tag-nasa","tag-space","tag-views","ground_category-1-grounds-science","ground_category-1-4-discover-saturn"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets.science.nasa.gov\/content\/dam\/science\/esd\/articles\/2026\/pace_tour_diatom_still_01.05500.tif\/jcr:content\/renditions\/cq5dam.web.1280.1280.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_post\/8854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ground_post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99049"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_post\/8854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8854"},{"taxonomy":"ground_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_category?post=8854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}