(Click image for a wider, high-resolution view.) Astronaut photograph acquired on April 17, 2022 from the International Space Station. Shadows from skyscrapers and other city…
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Satellite image of Turkey acquired on February 11, 2022, by the Operational Land Imager-2 (OLI-2) on Landsat 9. Satellite image of Turkey acquired on February…
Image of tropical cyclone Freddy acquired on February 21, 2023, by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the NOAA-20 satellite. The tropical cyclone…
Image acquired on February 14, 2023, by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite. Although the outbreak of fires in early February…
Western edge of the Sahara Desert captured by NASA’s Terra satellite on December 14, 2022. The conveyor belt helps transport an essential agricultural fertilizer from…
Total Precipitable Water Vapor on January 4, 2023. The latest in a series of atmospheric rivers drenching the state was accompanied by hazardous winds and…
The central and eastern United States experienced winter weather whiplash in December 2022 and January 2023, with possible contributions from the polar vortex. This resulted…
Image of central and northern California captured on January 1, 2023, by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite after heavy rain…
Landsat 9 Satellite image of Mount Semeru in Indonesia on December 4, 2022. Intense explosions at the summit sent avalanches of ash and mud racing…
A Barren Boundary: Despite a largely successful harvest overall, some crops along the front line went unharvested. A satellite-based analysis indicates that nearly 27 million…
Wetlands of Adair Bay captured in astronaut photograph from the International Space Station on August 1, 2022. The estuary system marks the transition between the…
NOAA-NASA Suomi NPP satellite Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) images of Hawaii on October 29 and November 28, 2022. During Mauna Loa’s first eruption…
Photograph taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station on December 25, 2019, shows dark surfaces in the hyper-arid eastern Sahara Desert in Sudan. (Click…
June 17 – November 8, 2021 Mount Terror might sound like a place to avoid. But this Antarctic volcano is not as terrifying as its…
The Adirondack Mountains in northeast New York on October 8, 2022. Vibrant leaf color in northeast New York has not disappointed leaf-peepers. Dry conditions in…
Drought and water shortages in 2022 have meant rice growers have only planted half as much of the grain as usual in the Sacramento Valley,…
Storm-stirred sediment produced colorful swirls along the western coast of Florida. Hurricane Ian barreled into Florida’s southwestern coast on September 28, 2022, as a powerful…
After Hurricane Ian passed, millions of residential and business customers lost electric power and light. Several cities on the west coast of Florida lost much…
Hurricane Ian, September 28, 2022. NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government…
Super Typhoon Noru. September 25, 2022. After making landfall in the Polillo Islands and Luzon, the storm strengthened again as it headed toward Vietnam. “Rapid…