July 21, 2020. (Click image for high-resolution view.) Because the atmosphere is about 100 times thinner and less dense than on Earth, weather on Mars…
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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…
Mount Rainier in Washington is home to one of the hundreds of snow-monitoring stations positioned throughout the western U.S. Credit: Vladi Braun The new projects…
April 2, 2020. (Click image for detailed view.) The winding Mississippi River historically has been used to define many state lines in the United States.…
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…
[embedded content] Research lays out viable pathway to “break the plastic wave.” A new analysis by The Pew Charitable Trusts and SYSTEMIQ finds that without…
The 2015 eruption at Wolf volcano in the Galapagos Archipelago. Credit: Gabriel Salazar, La Pinta Yacht Expedition An international team of volcanologists working on remote…
You may not be able to travel to Jezero Crater on Mars, but you can visit the next best thing: Lake Salda, Turkey. Though it…
Magnified image showing microbes revived from 101.5 million-year-old sediment. Credit: JAMSTEC For decades, scientists have gathered ancient sediment samples from below the seafloor to better…
June 1 – July 20, 2020 Rainfall that accompanies Asia’s summer monsoon plays an important role in the region’s economy by refilling aquifers, generating hydroelectric…
Locations of the 268 global seismic stations that were analyzed in the research. Lockdown effects are observed (red) at 185 out of 268 stations. Symbol…
Click image for full, detailed view. In July 2020, the Eastern Pacific experienced its first major hurricane of the year. After intensifying to category 4…
June 30, 2020 Since the start of Asia’s summer monsoon season on June 1, 2020, excessive rainfall has pushed lakes and rivers to record high…
The Falkland Islands as captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 Radar Observatory. Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2019-20), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO…
Locations of the 268 global seismic stations with usable data (e.g. no long data gaps, working sensors) that were analyzed. Lockdown effects are observed (red)…
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…
Interferogram showing the coseismic surface displacement in the area of Oaxaca, Mexico, generated from multiple Sentinel-1 scans – before and after the June 23, 2020,…
A snapshot of a model from the new work, showing the late stages of growth and coalescence of a new global fracture network. Fractures are…
July 17, 2020 (Click image for high-resolution version.) On July 17, 2020, the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 captured this natural-color image of…