Ernest Shackleton’s crew endured months on the desolate Elephant Island after losing Endurance in 1915,…
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.
Popularized by the studies and writings of Charles Darwin, the Galápagos Islands gained fame for…
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) took this photograph of a 30-kilometer (20-mile)…
While passing over Oregon, an astronaut onboard the International Space Station (ISS) shot this photograph…
If you accidentally stumbled upon the town of Huacachina, you might think it is a…
As winter moisture rolls in from the Pacific Ocean and makes snow on the Sierra…
Though air and sea temperatures worldwide have been quite warm in 2020, the eastern and…
The Sea of Galilee in northern Israel—one of the lowest-lying bodies of water in the…
The South Pacific island nation of Fiji is bracing for the arrival of severe tropical…
The first and only total solar eclipse of 2020 occurred on December 14, with the…
Fire season in California generally peaks from May through October. But as global temperatures have…
Within an expanse of boreal forest in northwestern Alaska, two treeless stretches of sand stand…
Australia has experienced its warmest spring on record, hitting a mean temperature of 24.53°C (76.15°F),…
In mid-November, about a month before the start of summer in the southern hemisphere, the…
On November 22, 2020, Cyclone Gati became the strongest storm to hit Somalia since satellite…
A joint U.S.-European satellite, built to monitor global sea levels, lifted off on a SpaceX…
When he first encountered Lituya Bay in 1786, the French explorer Jean-François de Galaup La…
Iceberg A-68A made headlines in July 2017 when the Delaware-sized block of ice broke from…