A powerful storm system battered major cities in the Arabian Peninsula. This slow-moving storm system…
Browsing: NASA Earth Observatory
The NASA Earth Observatory is a premier online platform launched by NASA in 1999 to share satellite imagery, maps, and data-driven visualizations that showcase our planet’s dynamic systems. Designed to inform the public and support educators, scientists, and policymakers, the site covers a wide range of Earth science topics including climate change, natural disasters, land use, and atmospheric conditions. With regularly updated imagery from NASA’s fleet of Earth-observing satellites, the Earth Observatory offers compelling insights into both long-term environmental trends and real-time global events.
This reddish “burning mountain” of granite is the highest point in Namibia. This photograph, taken…
Researchers used satellite data to calculate the depth of water in this transient freshwater body.…
Astronauts and photographers captured unforgettable views of Earth and the Sun as the Moon’s shadow…
Images spanning four decades show how buildings and blacktop have spread into Ireland’s countryside. Dublin…
Satellites gathered striking views of the Moon’s shadow from above as observers on the ground…
Landsat satellites have begun regularly acquiring images of ice at the poles during the winter,…
The Wilkins Ice Shelf in Antarctica has been showing signs of instability, with significant ice…
The latest fissure eruption on Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula was the largest of four recent bouts…
It’s not a forecast, but this map of historical cloud cover will tell you how…
Arctic sea ice coverage in 2024 decreased to 6 million square miles, continuing a 46-year…
Lights, snow, and clouds brighten this wintery scene of Earth’s northern latitudes. An astronaut aboard…
The large coral islands off the African coast are home to giant tortoises and unique…
Recent data from the previously unstudied Ruki River in the Congo Basin shows that it…
Some of the world’s largest deposits of this useful metal lie in the high plains…
Critical infrastructure is threatened as sinking land amplifies global sea level rise. In many parts…
Weeks of warmer-than-average ocean temperatures caused extensive bleaching in the world’s largest coral reef system.…
The Arctic and North Atlantic oceans have seen an increasing number of days when precipitation…