Drs. Minter and Bath Enright, of the University of Portsmouth’s School of the Environment, Geography and Geosciences, studied the Burgess Shale area of British Columbia,…
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Spectacular image captured on March 15 , 2020, by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission of North America’s Great Lakes: Lake Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario.…
Copernicus Sentinel-2 image of Los Cabos – a municipality on the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula. This image has been processed in a…
The USA-Mexico border wall could restrict the movement of jaguars as they shift between countries to find more hospitable places to live due to climate…
February 13, 2021 With its rocky terrain, mountain caves, and beautiful beaches, Hingol National Park is one of the natural wonders of Pakistan. With its…
Morbihan, France, as captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. The Gulf of Morbihan is visible in the center of the image. Credit: Contains modified Copernicus…
December 3, 2020. (Click image for high-resolution view.) The Bay Area has several famous landmarks that stand out from the Space Station. The winter months…
WTSWW’s Skokholm Island. Credit: Lucy Griffiths Chance finds dating back 9000 years tell new story of Skokholm Island, Pembrokeshire. Chance finds of prehistoric stone tools…
October 7, 2020 The Rann of Kutch can appear drastically different depending on the time of year. Located in northwest India, the Kutch district can…
Cape Canaveral is a cape and city in Brevard County, in east-central Florida. The cape is separated from the mainland by the Banana River, Merritt…
April 5, 2021 After an unusually dry winter, forest fires have raged throughout the mountainous country. Seasonal fires, lit to manage farmland and pastures, are…
February 19, 2020. (Click image for wide, high-resolution view.) A new artificial island near Malé could be a destination for people trying to escape rising…
June 30, 2014 The Back and Hayes rivers in Nunavut, Canada, display a striking contrast in color. Where two rivers meet without mixing much, the…
With Easter right around the corner, we take a look at four egg-shaped buildings visible from space as captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. Credit:…
The enormous Ever Given container ship, wedged in Egypt’s Suez Canal, is visible in new images captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission. Credit: Contains modified…
November 26, 2020 Looking down from the International Space Station (ISS), an astronaut captured this view of the northwest coastline of Saudi Arabia, where up…
Astronaut Andrew Morgan used a fisheye lens to capture the intersection of two continents. Astronaut Andrew Morgan shot this wide-angle photograph from the central Cupola…
Despite a cold snap in February, low ice cover prevailed across the lakes in winter 2020-2021. In any given year, the formation, movement, and timing…
November 26, 2020 The modern oasis of Jubbah sits within the wind shadow of historic mountains and the basin of an ancient lakebed. Long-sustained westerly…
This image was captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission on July 29, 2019. Vancouver, visible at the top of the image, lies between Burrard Inlet,…