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Aftermath of the Seti River Landslide

Sunglint and Clouds off Western South America

Dardzha Peninsula

The Anatomy of a Thunderstorm

Fire Rages in Gila National Forest

Landslide and Deadly Flood in Nepal

Fire Chars Forest Near Guadalajara

Annular Eclipse over the Pacific Ocean

Lake Powell and The Rincon, Utah

Sunny Skies over the Pacific Northwest

Bloomin' Black Sea

“Warming Hole” Over the Eastern U.S. Due to Air Pollution

Retreat of Alaska’s Columbia Glacier

Smoke Plume from Baikal over Bering?

Dust Storm in the Middle East

Etosha Pan, Namibia

Changes in Canberra

Crop Circles in the Desert

Drought Hits Spain's Wheat Crop

Ice Melting on Lake Baikal

Methane Emissions from the Arctic Ocean

Fires in Western Australia

Ouarkziz Impact Crater, Algeria

Sea Ice in Alaska’s Bristol Bay

A Decade of Earth Observations

La Niña comes to a close

A Mélange of Ice

Finding the Hottest Spots on Earth by Satellite

Sunny Skies over the Antarctic Peninsula

White Sands Dust Storm

Rubber Chicken in Space

Flooding on the Arabian Peninsula

Activity at Popocatépetl

Fires Blaze North of Omsk

Continuing Eruption of Shiveluch

Lake Sediment Plume in Northern Kazakhstan

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Aftermath of the Seti River Landslide

Fresh, light-colored debris filled the channel of Nepal’s Seti River after a catastrophic flood and debris flow on May 5, 2012. Read More

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World of Change: Columbia Glacier, Alaska

May 16, 2012

Since 1980, the volume of this glacier that spills into the Prince William Sound has shrunk by half. Climate change may have nudged the process along, but mechanical forces have played the largest role in the ice loss. Read More

Looking Back on Ten Years of Aqua

May 4, 2012

Launched on May 4, 2002, NASA's Aqua satellite and its six instruments have provided a decade's worth of unprecedented views of our planet. Here are a few of our favorites. Read More

Where Is the Hottest Place on Earth?

April 5, 2012

Satellite research shows that the world’s hottest spot changes, though the conditions don’t. Think dry, rocky, and dark-colored lands...and cities. Read More

Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami: Looking Back from Space

March 9, 2012

In 2011, the fourth largest earthquake in history rocked the coast of Japan, spawning a devastating tsunami. Satellites and scientists had an unprecedented view of both. This gallery offers a glimpse of the broad scale of the destruction, of the recovery a year later, and of some new scientific understanding that emerged. Read More