A tongue of lava from the eruption flowed into the parking lot of the geothermal spa.
Image of the Day Atmosphere Heat Land Volcanoes Snow and Ice
The Cretaceous sandstone of Libya’s Messak Settafet plateau shows signs of a modern oil field and Stone Age quarries and hunting sites.
Image of the Day Land
A novel radar image reveals structural elements of Camp Century, an abandoned U.S. military base buried within the Greenland Ice Sheet.
Image of the Day Human Presence Snow and Ice
Orange, yellow, and white lights span Chicago at night, illuminating its gridded downtown and tracing its sinuous rivers and parks.
Image of the Day Human Presence
The amount of freshwater stored on land and underground has plummeted in the past decade, which might indicate that Earth’s continents have entered a persistently drier phase.
Image of the Day Water