Satellite images show smoke from hundreds of wildland fires darkening Alaskan skies. Alaskan summers are…
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.
In early July 2022, a combination of dry weather, lightning, and unusual heat fueled hundreds…
NASA Harvest scientists use satellite observations and economic data to track how the Russia-Ukraine conflict…
Snowmelt and heavy rain caused historically high water in Yellowstone National Park that destroyed homes,…
Tornado Scars Northern Michigan Satellite imagery shows the line of damage extending through Gaylord, Michigan.…
Bezymianny, a stratovolcano in Russia’s Far East, ejected a towering plume that streaked the snow…
In the Utah desert, the red rocks, cliffs, and canyons of this nautically named national…
Researchers recently chronicled the death throes of A-68A, one of the world’s largest-known icebergs. As…
Dubai’s coast has some of the largest and most recognizable land reclamation projects on Earth.…
Kavachi Volcano in the Southwest Pacific Solomon Islands—where hammerhead sharks prowl—has entered an active phase…
The speed and intensity of the Black fire grew quickly, producing a pyrocumulonimbus cloud and…
At least eight major events in Iraq have darkened skies and sickened people in the…
When large waves break in Māʻalaea Bay, they do so with the crushing speed of…
A massive, early season wildfire that continues to burn in northern New Mexico generated a…
Since May 2018, when Kīlauea’s lava lake last drained, the summit crater has filled with…
The California mountain range alternated between extreme precipitation and none at all this winter. When…
An Unnamed Mound of White off East Antarctica Seems To Be an Island The eastern…
Scientists Have Been Observing Peyto Glacier in Alberta Since the 1960s Peyto Glacier in Banff…