February 25, 2022 The long-term trend for sea ice in the south is flat, while the global trend points downward. In February 2022, sea ice…
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March 11, 2022. (Click image for high-resolution, wide-field view.) Two eye-catching cloud types—flower-shaped actinoform and spiraling von Kármán vortices—popped up off the coast of Chile…
March 6, 2022 After nearly pummeling the vulnerable Brunt Ice Shelf, a flock of Antarctic icebergs settles in for the austral winter. In summer 2019,…
March 1, 2022 Two weeks after launch, the nation’s newest weather satellite has reached geostationary orbit. Two weeks after its launch, the nation’s newest weather…
Natural color – February 23, 2022. (Click image for wide view.) Enhanced natural color – February 23, 2022. An icebreaker cut through persistent sea ice…
Ground Truth – 2019 GEDI & Sentinel-2 Prediction – 2019 An instrument designed to measure tree height can also distinguish corn from other crops. Every…
March 5, 2022 Firefighters contended with strong winds and dry weather as blazes raced through coastal counties. Amid dry weather and strong winds, thousands of…
October 8, 2021 The 50,000-year-old crater is relatively young, and only the second discovered in China. Despite China’s large land area, only one impact crater—the…
October 29, 2020 February 5, 2022 Just-right conditions off the coast of this Portuguese fishing town have churned out some of the largest waves ever…
May 25, 2021 While in orbit over Egypt, an astronaut on the International Space Station (ISS) captured a photograph of this heart-shaped basin bordering the…
The plume from Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai behaved like a mega-thunderstorm that rose 58 kilometers (38 miles) into the atmosphere. When an underwater volcano erupted near…
February 7, 2022 Landsat 9 completed its own pass last week in time for the big game. Passes will be flying today in Los Angeles…
February 4, 2022 A blast of high-speed solar wind provoked dancing auroras in early February. Auroras are a brilliant reminder that Earth is constantly absorbing…
February 1, 2022 Sporting events in Beijing are clustered in three zones, each with distinct geography. Beijing, the host city for the 2022 Olympic Winter…
2019 – 2020 Heat and drought exacerbated fire season in 2020, but cattle grazing and other human activities also primed the region to burn. One…
July 23, 2017 – January 17, 2022 Researchers are using data from weather satellites to detect meteors entering Earth’s atmosphere. The new year began with…
January 15, 2022 Several Earth-observing satellites collected data during and after the potent blast. One of the most potent volcanic eruptions in decades has obliterated…
January 11, 2022 A summer heatwave knocked out power in Argentina, while heat in Western Australia likely tied the hottest temperature ever measured south of…
2021 Earth’s global average surface temperature in 2021 tied 2018 as the sixth-warmest year on record, according to independent analyses from NASAEstablished in 1958, the…
1995 – 2020 A sensor installed on the International Space Station is yielding fresh insights on the global distribution of lightning. Since the dawn of…