From space, the southeastern Italian region of Puglia bursts with contrast: bright city clusters, dark…
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.
Sea ice in the Gulf of St. Lawrence is breaking away from its usual winter…
Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a…
Southern Poland’s farmlands don’t conform to the rigid grids seen elsewhere. Instead, they form a…
The Alps, home to the iconic Aletsch Glacier, are undergoing a dramatic transformation. Satellite imagery…
Hidden in the stormy Furious Fifties, the South Sandwich Islands generate spectacular cloud formations. Winds…
Deep within Africa’s Great Rift Valley, Virunga National Park is home to some of the…
More than 50 years after Apollo 8’s legendary Earthrise photo, a new image from the…
While many lakes worldwide are shrinking, the northern Tibetan Plateau is experiencing a dramatic expansion.…
Tropical Cyclone Alfred, an unusually southern storm for Australia’s east coast, took a surprising turn…
The colossal Antarctic iceberg A-23A, after years of drifting, now appears stuck near South Georgia…
A monstrous storm system tore across the U.S. in March 2025, igniting wildfires, spawning tornadoes,…
A massive iceberg, nearly the size of Chicago, has broken away from the George VI…
In a rare meteorological event, six tropical cyclones churned across the South Pacific and Indian…
A massive wildfire erupted near Ofunato, Japan, consuming thousands of hectares of forest in what…
In February 2025, an unrelenting high-pressure system sent temperatures soaring across South America. Rio de…
Scientists have uncovered dramatic shifts in California’s coastal landscape, revealing areas that are either sinking…
A wildfire erupted on remote Amsterdam Island in January 2025, scorching over half its landmass…