One of the largest seaports on the East Coast, “Charm City” was briefly the capital of the United States.
Published Nov 5, 2012
This island off of Ecuador was formed by a shield volcano.
Published Oct 28, 2012
Exhaust trails mark the flight of a Soyuz rocket that delivered crew members to the International Space Station.
Published Oct 26, 2012
One of the largest mountains in the Cascade Range is also one of the most active volcanoes in the region over recent centuries.
Published Oct 22, 2012
This atoll of islands and reefs formed around a submerged volcano.
Published Oct 15, 2012
The colorful salt flat is a product of mineral-rich waters and a dry, flat landscape.
Published Oct 8, 2012
Smoke and natural wonders fill this scene shot from the International Space Station.
Published Sep 30, 2012
The patterns and colors of lighting reveal the urban geography of the capital city.
Published Sep 17, 2012
The cultural, economic, and historic heart of Turkey glows in the night.
Published Sep 10, 2012
Old volcanic domes form the backbone of the “smallest mountain range in the world.”
Published Sep 3, 2012
Close-packed beach ridges show the position of prior shorelines.
Published Aug 27, 2012
In western Nevada, one of only two remnants of ancient, glacial Lake Lahontan is sandwiched between mountain ridges.
Published Aug 20, 2012
Astronauts can see African dust palls arriving in the Caribbean.
Published Aug 13, 2012
Astronauts captured this photograph shortly after deadly flash floods swept the city.
Published Jul 30, 2012
Lake Ontario, Lake Huron, the Finger Lakes of New York, and numerous other bodies of water are brilliantly lit by sunglint in this astronaut photograph.
Published Jul 22, 2012
Red sprites, short-lived flashes caused by intense lightning, are rarely captured on camera.
Published Jul 10, 2012
The bright lights of Al Jubayl’s industrial center stand out in a nighttime photograph from the International Space Station.
Published Jul 9, 2012
Juba, a port city on the White Nile, is the capital of the new nation of South Sudan and is one of the fastest growing cities in the world.
Published Jul 2, 2012
“Night-shining” clouds form at high altitudes in late spring and early summer.
Published Jun 25, 2012
The highest volcano in the chain has a nearly perfect cone shape.
Published Jun 18, 2012
Salt and algae color the landscape and water around this marsh that lies below global sea level.
Published Jun 11, 2012
For the first time in history, and the last time for a century, astronauts captured images of the planetary transit as viewed from orbit.
Published Jun 7, 2012
Winds shape the sands that were left behind by an ancient river.
Published Jun 4, 2012
Man and nature have both altered the course of a southwestern U.S. river.
Published May 21, 2012
The salt-covered, dry lakebed is at the center of Namibia’s largest wildlife park and a major tourist attraction.
Published May 14, 2012
The crater was formed by a meteor impact less than 70 million years ago, during the “Age of Dinosaurs.”
Published May 7, 2012
Astronauts on the International Space Station observed an intense winter dust storm in White Sands National Monument, New Mexico.
Published Apr 30, 2012
The irregular coastline of Kamchatka provokes large, circular eddies to spin off from the main southwestward-flowing Kamchatka current. Three such eddies are highlighted by surface ice floe patterns.
Published Apr 9, 2012
It is one of the great tectonic features of Africa—caused by fracturing of the Earth’s crust—and includes the classical geologic structures associated with a rift valley.
Published Apr 2, 2012
The island sits along the tectonic boundary where the old, cold Pacific plate is being subducted at the Marianas trench.
Published Mar 26, 2012
