JPL
Careers
Education
Science & Technology
JPL Logo
JPL Logo
JPL Life
.

NASA Wins 3 2021 Webby Awards, 2 People's Voice Honors

May 20, 2021

The awards are the highest honor for online communications.

Credit: Webby Awards

NASA-JPL web experiences are among NASA's winners at the 2021 Webby awards, which recognize excellence on the internet.

NASA received three Webby Awards and was honored as the People's Voice winner in two categories in the 2021 Webby Awards competition. The awards, given by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, recognize the best in online communications.

NASA's three Webby winners are:

  • The agency's flagship social media accounts, for Best Overall Social Presence: Brand
  • Exoplanet Exploration, exploring the science of planets outside our solar system, for Website and Mobile Site: Science.
  • Eyes on the Earth, showing global climate change in real time, for Website and Mobile Site: Data Visualization.

Get the Latest JPL News

SUBSCRIBE TO THE NEWSLETTER

“We are doubly honored with these awards,” said Marc Etkind, NASA’s associate administrator for communications. “It’s great to have our work selected by the Webby judges, but the public is our ultimate audience, so it’s just as gratifying to be recognized by them for our efforts to share the excitement of exploration, both of the cosmos and our home planet, across all our platforms.”

Managed by the Office of Communications, NASA's social media presence extends across multiple platforms, including Twitter (46.6 million followers), Facebook (26 million followers) and Instagram (66 million followers). The effort has received four previous Webby Awards and three People's Voice awards.

NASA’s Eyes on the Earth is just one of the many web-based visualization products offered to the public at https://eyes.nasa.gov. NASA's Eyes allows users to take a ride on multiple NASA satellites and examine our planet's health from outer space, in real-time, from any internet-connected web browser. View both current and past Earth science data projected on a 3-D interactive globe, including global temperature, sea level, and carbon dioxide concentrations and see latest events observed from space, such as wildfires, hurricanes, and dust storms. Eyes on the Earth was a website honoree in 2013. The Eyes team is based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.

NASA’s Exoplanets website shares the science behind the search for and discovery of worlds beyond our solar system. It is managed by the Exoplanet Exploration Program and JPL for NASA’s Astrophysics Division. This is the fourth Webby nomination and second win for the exoplanets website.

NASA had three additional nominees and an honoree:

  • #LaunchAmerica – NASA's multi-platform campaign, beginning with NASA's SpaceX Demo-2 mission: American astronauts launching on American rockets from American soil for the first time since 2011. (Category: Social Content Series and Campaigns, Events and Livestreams)
  • NASA STEM@Home – Bringing learning and fun to students at home as the COVID-19 pandemic closed schools through much of 2020. (Websites and Mobile Sites)
  • The Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate's social media, using the latest channels on behalf of aeronautics, "the first 'A' in NASA." (General Social, Education & Discovery)

The Hubble Space Telescope program's Instagram video "Hubble and Whale Sharks" was an honoree in the Social Video, Education & Discovery category.

News Media Contact

Stephanie L. Smith

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

818-393-5464

slsmith@jpl.nasa.gov

2021-107

Related News

JPL Life .

NASA Selects Minority-Serving Institution Proposals to Receive Support

JPL Life .

NASA Wins 3 Webby Awards, 5 People’s Voice Awards for 2022

JPL Life .

JPL Commits to First-Ever Space Industry Diversity Pledge

JPL Life .

NASA Receives 8 2022 Webby Award Nominations

Robotics .

JPL-Mentored Teams Shine at Annual Student Robotics Competition

JPL Life .

NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter and Asteroid-Monitoring System Honored

JPL Life .

Pi Day Challenge: Solve Math Problems With NASA

Technology .

NASA Selects Futuristic Space Technology Concepts for Early Study

JPL Life .

Santa Monica High Wins Ocean Sciences Bowl Hosted by NASA’s JPL

JPL Life .

Caltech Names Laurie Leshin Director of JPL

Explore More

Slice of History

Image .

Slice of History - Then & Now: Space Flight Operations Facility (SFOF)

Event June 30, 2022 .

JPL & the Space Age: The Pathfinders

poster Gallery .

Various Posters

poster Gallery .

Robotics Posters

Universe Newsletter

Image .

Slice of History - JPL Photo Lab

Event May 26, 2022 .

NuStar - Studying the Universe in X-Ray

Event June 23, 2022 .

Spacecraft Assembly, Test, and Launch Operations (ATLO)

Von Kármán Lecture .

The von Kármán Lecture Series: 2022

About JPL
Who We Are
Executive Council
Directors
Careers
Internships
The JPL Story
JPL Achievements
Documentary Series
Annual Reports
Missions
Current
Past
Future
All
News
All
Earth
Solar System
Stars and Galaxies
Subscribe to JPL News
Galleries
Images
Videos
Audio
Podcasts
Apps
Visions of the Future
Slice of History
Robotics at JPL
Events
Lecture Series
Team Competitions
Speakers Bureau
Calendar
Visit
Public Tours
Virtual Tour
Topics
JPL Life
Solar System
Mars
Earth
Climate Change
Exoplanets
Stars and Galaxies
Robotics
More
Asteroid Watch
NASA's Eyes Visualizations
Universe - Internal Newsletter
Social Media
Get the Latest from JPL
Follow Us

JPL is a federally funded research and development center managed for NASA by Caltech.

More from JPL
Careers Education Science & Technology Acquisitions JPL Store
Careers
Education
Science & Technology
Acquisitions
JPL Store
Related NASA Sites
Basics of Spaceflight
Climate Kids
Earth / Global Climate Change
Exoplanet Exploration
Mars Exploration
Solar System Exploration
Space Place
NASA's Eyes Visualization Project
Voyager Interstellar Mission
NASA
Caltech
Privacy
Image Policy
FAQ
Feedback
Site Managers: Veronica McGregor, Randal Jackson
Site Editors: Tony Greicius, Naomi Hartono