A Satellite View of 2022 Olympic Terrain From NASA
Sporting events in Beijing are clustered in three zones, each with distinct geography. Beijing, the host city for the 2022 Olympic Winter Games, is situated…
Sporting events in Beijing are clustered in three zones, each with distinct geography. Beijing, the host city for the 2022 Olympic Winter Games, is situated…
Heat and drought exacerbated fire season in 2020, but cattle grazing and other human activities also primed the region to burn. One of the world’s…
Researchers are using data from weather satellites to detect meteors entering Earth’s atmosphere. The new year began with a bang in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Early on…
NASA scientists have been closely watching the evolution of the volcanic island near Tonga since 2015. When a volcano in the South Pacific Kingdom of…
Several Earth-observing satellites collected data during and after the potent blast. One of the most potent volcanic eruptions in decades has obliterated a small, uninhabited…
A summer heatwave knocked out power in Argentina, while heat in Western Australia likely tied the hottest temperature ever measured south of the equator. In…
After a year of drought, southern Iran faced floods in early 2022, leading to deaths and extensive damage. Despite this, long-term drought conditions persist as…
A dark, rainy spring gave way to a vast, long-lived phytoplankton bloom off the coast of Brazil. Rio de Janeiro experienced an unusually long and…
2021 marked another peak in the ongoing trend of rising global temperatures, tying as the sixth warmest year. Human activities, particularly the emission of greenhouse…
A sensor installed on the International Space Station is yielding fresh insights into the global distribution of lightning. Satellite data from the ISS LIS has…
Clouds parted for a glimpse of one of the most dangerous volcanoes on Earth, Mount Vesuvius, located near Naples, Italy. Mount Vesuvius, located 12 kilometers…
More than 20 million people in Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia now face some of the worst food security risks in 35 years. Eastern Africa’s food…
Satellites captured the intense volcanic activity on Isabela Island in the Galápagos, with the eruption starting late on January 6, 2022. Lava and ash clouds…
On two separate occasions, 50 years apart, there were mass deaths of caribou in Arctic Canada and reindeer in the Bering Sea islands. Through the…
Hurricane-force winds whipped fires across drought-parched grasslands and into suburban neighborhoods near Denver. On December 30, 2021, high winds roared out of the west and…
January 3 – August 15, 2012 Airborne research shows the Southern Ocean as a major carbon sink, absorbing 530 million metric tons of CO2 annually,…
Astronauts traveling within Earth’s largest artificial satellite can capture unique shots of the planet’s only natural satellite. Astronauts traveling within Earth’s largest artificial satellite—the International…
In 2021, Earth experienced a diverse range of natural phenomena captured in striking images. The year saw extreme winter weather in the central U.S., causing…