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Spring is Arriving Earlier in National Parks

Sculpting a Basin

Disappearing Walker Lake

The Pearl-Qatar

Bloom in the Gulf of Aden

Vast Dust Storms in the Sahara

Bits of the Sahara on the Move

Cloud Streets and Ice in the Barents Sea

Rivers Swell in Channel Country

Saharan Dust Makes Orange Snow

Spring Fires in Kaliningrad

Nikumaroro Atoll

Lake Balkhash Under the Moon

Samalayuca Sand Dunes

Cyclone Marcus

Peru’s Newest National Park

The Spread of Mangroves in Senegal

Record Low Snowpack in Afghanistan

Lake Darodzan in Sunglint

Going for Atmospheric GOLD

Ailsa Craig

Iceland’s Caldera of Hot Springs

Floodwaters at the Confluence of the Wabash and Ohio Rivers

Sand Rush in Wisconsin

The Sculpting of Ebro Delta

A Plateau of Chasms

A Fateful Year at Cinder Cone

Sediment Plume off the Louisiana Coast

Low Sea Ice Amid Arctic Warming

Shelly Island: There and Back Again

Making Sense of Whiting Events

Sarawak’s Rajang River Delta

Lake Garda

GOES-S Heads for Geostationary Orbit

One World, One Orbit

A Dry Winter Brings Drought to the US

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Spring is Arriving Earlier in National Parks

In National Parks across the United States, recent springs are among the earliest ever observed compared to the past 112 years. Read more

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Melting Beauty: The Icefields of Patagonia

March 27, 2018

The Patagonian icefields stretch for hundreds of kilometers atop the Andes mountain range in South America. Change here is rapid, as the icefields are melting away at some of the highest rates on the planet. Read more

Landsat 8 Turns 5

February 15, 2018

The Landsat series of satellites have been chronicling changes on Earth’s surface for 46 years. In the past five years, Landsat 8 has brought us an unparalleled look at the beauty and dynamism of our planet. Read more

International Collaborative Experiments for Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (ICE-POP)

February 14, 2018

Scientists have brought together sensors from all over the world, including a radar from NASA, to Pyeongchang, South Korea. Data collected with the instruments during the 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games are expected to help scientists understand precipitation processes and to improve weather predictions. Read more

Antarctica from Above: Flying for Science, Finding Beauty

January 11, 2018

Photographs from the 2017 Operation IceBridge field campaign show the many forms of land and sea ice around the frozen (and melting) southern continent. Read more

Notes from the Field: In New Mexico, Land of Volcanoes

January 10, 2018

In 2017, scientists with the Goddard Instrument Field Team (GIFT) descended on the Potrillo volcanic field, a now-dormant region in the New Mexico portion of the Chihuahuan Desert. The site serves as a "planetary analog," where researchers can test instruments that future explorers might use to investigate volcanic areas on the Moon, Mars and other rocky planets. Read more

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