The 50,000-year-old crater is relatively young, and only the second discovered in China. Despite China’s…
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.
Just-right conditions off the coast of this Portuguese fishing town have churned out some of…
Despite an overall trend of Arctic ice loss, the Bering Sea saw an expansion of…
The Thar desert’s abundance of open space and sunshine make it an ideal place for…
An ISS photo shows Egypt’s Faiyum Oasis, formed from Lake Moeris, with water supplied by…
The plume from Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai behaved like a mega-thunderstorm that rose 58 kilometers (36…
Landsat 9 completed its own pass last week in time for the big game. Passes…
A blast of high-speed solar wind provoked dancing auroras in early February. Auroras are a…
Sporting events in Beijing are clustered in three zones, each with distinct geography. Beijing, the…
Heat and drought exacerbated fire season in 2020, but cattle grazing and other human activities…
Researchers are using data from weather satellites to detect meteors entering Earth’s atmosphere. The new…
NASA and international researchers documented a powerful volcanic eruption in Tonga, studying its progression and…
Several Earth-Observing Satellites Collected Data During and After the Potent Blast One of the most…
A summer heatwave knocked out power in Argentina, while heat in Western Australia likely tied…
After a year of drought, southern Iran faced floods in early 2022, leading to deaths…
A dark, rainy spring gave way to a vast, long-lived phytoplankton bloom off the coast…
2021 marked another peak in the ongoing trend of rising global temperatures, tying as the…
A sensor installed on the International Space Station is yielding fresh insights into the global…