Airmen experience St. Elmo’s fire while flying a KC-10 aircraft into a thundercloud from an undisclosed location, March 22, 2017. St. Elmo’s fire occurs when…
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This artist’s rendition shows how a Mars lidar could be deployed on a landed mission to Mars. Credit: NASA Insights and technology gleaned from creating…
The Light Detection and Ranging instrument, or LIDAR, is a remote sensing technique that uses light to study an object. Credit: ESA/IPEV/PNRA–S. Thoolen In a…
This is an image of the ultraviolet “nightglow” in the Martian atmosphere. Green and white false colors represent the intensity of ultraviolet light, with white…
On September 18, 2017, ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli shot this image from the International Space Station showing the Moon rising above the Earth’s horizon together…
Coastal elevation in California. Coastal zones, which are defined to be those with elevations less than 10 m, are shown in red. Segments of the…
A blazing sunset lights up the evening sky. Credit: NOAA Four years of research confidently narrows range of 1.5°C-4.5°C down to 2.3°C-3.9°C. The most advanced…
A commercial airplane on a runway. Weather forecasts have become less accurate during the COVID-19 pandemic due to the reduction in commercial flights, according to…
The South Pole Telescope at the US Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, with a bright aurora in July 2020. Credit: Geoff Chen Stars viewed from a…
Metal-organic frameworks are highly porous, making them ideal for absorbing gases and liquids. This graphic shows the interior of a MOF based on the metal…
The white microbial mats seen here are telltale signs of areas where methane may be released from underground methane deposits. Credit: Andrew Thurber Oregon State…
Potential geoengineering methods for injecting sulfur dioxide into the upper atmosphere to create sulfuric acid clouds that limit global warming. Credit: AGU/Brian West The technology’s…
Still image cross-section showing the impact (inset) and aftermath (main picture) of a 3D simulation of a giant planetary impact using 100 million particles, colored…
Credit: Dr Dimitar Epihov 2 Billion Tonnes of CO2 Could be Absorbed From the Atmosphere Each Year by Applying Rock Dust to Farmland Adding crushed…
Holocene global mean surface temperature. Credit: Victor O. Leshyk, Northern Arizona University Comprehensive compilation of pre-historic temperature records shows that global warming is reaching levels…
New representations of clouds are making models more sensitive to carbon dioxide. As scientists work to determine why some of the latest climate models suggest…
Artist’s rendering of the Soil Moisture Active Passive satellite. The width of the region scanned on Earth’s surface during each orbit is about 620 miles.…
(a) Map of global PM2.5 in 2016; (b) Changes in concentrations between 2010 and 2016. Units for both are μg/m3. Credit: Professor Gavin Shaddick/University of…
Key in determining post-pandemic emissions is how governments choose to spend stimulus monies–whether they use it to prop up fossil fuel incumbents or bolster clean…
These giant mounds of fossil stromatolites from about 2.5 billion years ago are located in South Africa. For scale, notice a person’s dangling legs at…