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Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research (GESTAR) II

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From Nepal to NASA: A  journey of resilience and discovery 

Aug 25, 2025 / 6 minutes of reading
view from space of the eastern half of the U.S. and western portion of the Atlantic Ocean. Swirling green eddies can be seen in the blue water, and green patches show plant growth on land.

Leaf year: PACE satellite data reveals global plant health

Jul 29, 2025 / 4 minutes of reading
an image of Earth from space with Africa on the right, South America on the left, and a big cloud of tan dust aerosols traveling from one to the other

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May 28, 2025 / 3 minutes of reading
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5 ways UMBC partnered with NASA in 2024

Dec 13, 2024 / 3 minutes of reading
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PANTHYR instrument installed in Chesapeake Bay to monitor water quality, validate satellite data

Nov 1, 2024 / 4 minutes of reading
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GESTAR II center awarded $47 million extension on cooperative agreement with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Sep 26, 2024 / 2 minutes of reading
A room of people looking at the Hyper-Angular Rainbow Polarimeter instrument family. One person in the center has his hands outstretched, looking at someone on his left as he explains what the instruments do.

UMBC hosts “NASA Days” event series with Goddard Space Flight Center

Sep 13, 2024 / 4 minutes of reading
group photo of about 25 people on a wooden footbridge, green trees in the background

Month of Earth Day events culminates with 8th Annual Earth Day Symposium

May 3, 2024 / 5 minutes of reading
The background of the image is entirely black, with an illustration of Earth centered on Africa in the top right corner of the image. The HARP2 logo lies below the Earth illustration. A small box is highlighted over Western Africa and two lines are extending out from it, meeting with two larger images which take up most of the image, indicating that the larger images are zoomed in to the location highlighted over the Earth. The larger image to the left has a label above it in white that says “True Color Image”. It shows a portion of land on the right side of the image in shades of brown. The left side of the image is primarily the dark blue color of the ocean. Over the land and ocean, primarily in the top left corner of the image and along the right border are wisps and speckles of clouds. The larger image to the right, which has a label above it that says “Polarization”, is the same as the left image, but with inverted colors. The land shows up as a dark black color, while the ocean is seen as a brighter blue. The clouds now show up in a range of colors. The clouds on the right border of the image appear in shades of muted greens and oranges, and as the clouds extend over to the top left corner, they are seen in a full rainbow color. From right to left, the colors transition from dark purple, through the rainbow to end at red.

First data from UMBC’s HARP2 instrument on NASA PACE mission goes public

Apr 11, 2024 / 5 minutes of reading
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