The latest fissure eruption on Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula was the largest of four recent bouts…
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.
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…
A Landsat satellite acquired this image of discolored water drifting from the active underwater volcano.…
Sea ice coverage reached its seasonal minimum in February 2024, tying with 2022 for the…
This wide-angle photo offers the feeling of looking out over the Persian Gulf from an…
The storm dropped a substantial amount of rain as it moved across Mozambique. In March…
Researchers are leveraging troves of data collected by animal-borne sensors to complement satellite observations, expand…
A volcano on Fernandina, an uninhabited island dense with wildlife, is lighting up the night…
The large reservoir in Catalonia shrank to 1 percent of capacity in March 2024. Three…
Ranchers in the Texas Panhandle recently faced a fire that charred more than 1 million…