Capitol Reef National Park in south-central Utah. May 2, 2022. In the Utah desert, the red rocks, cliffs, and canyons of this nautically named national…
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This satellite image, which features the German city of Bonn, was captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. With its high-resolution optical camera, it can image…
May 16, 2022 At least eight major events in Iraq have darkened skies and sickened people in the past six weeks. Iraq and other countries…
This striking, high-resolution image of the Arc de Triomphe, in Paris, was captured on April 9, 2022, by Planet SkySat – a fleet of satellites…
Calf Canyon Fire produces a pyrocumulonimbus cloud. NOAA-20 VIIRS True Color RGB, False Color RGB, and Infrared Window (11.45 µm) images. Credit: MOAA A massive,…
The Rhine River, the longest river in Germany, is featured in this colorful image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. Each color in this image…
Mount Aso, the largest active volcano in Japan, is featured in this image captured on January 1, 2022, by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. Credit: Contains…
The Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission captured this impressive shot of the almost cloud-free Scandinavian Peninsula on March 20, 2022. Technical note: the image is a mosaic…
April 7 – 13, 2022 In the KwaZulu-Natal coastal province, heavy rainfall spurred deadly flooding and landslides. In April 2022, several days of unsettled weather…
February 24, 2022 March 23, 2022 In March 2022, old sea ice crumbled away as new ice formed off the coast of Antarctica’s Marie Byrd…
March 4, 2020 The coastal and oceanic conditions off of northern Peru create a “dreamland for surfers.” The waters off the Pacific coast of northern…
In the context of trade-offs between land use and biodiversity, LMU geographers have simulated land saving potentials for agriculture. With rising global demand for agricultural…
Part of Lake Nasser, one of the largest artificial lakes in the world, is featured in this false-color image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.…
Twilight is a long affair at research station Concordia, situated just a few 1000 km from the South Pole. The Sun disappears completely behind the…
Map showing Balkanatolia 40 million years ago and at the present day. Balkanatolia is a forgotten low-lying continent wedged between Europe, Africa, and Asia, already…
Russia and Ukraine: What is at stake in this crisis? Northwestern experts in history, international relations and political science explain. As Russian forces close in…
This false-color image, captured on February 12, 2022, by Landsat 9, has been processed using the satellite’s near-infrared channel. This channel is frequently used to…
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…
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…