This wetland in the interior of Botswana is an oasis for biodiversity in the midst of the arid Kalahari Desert.
Published Jul 28, 2014
Sunglint provides compelling light for the coastlines of northern Europe.
Published Jul 22, 2014
Transcripts from the flight to the Moon capture some of the wonder and novelty of looking back at Earth.
Published Jul 21, 2014
The great peninsula of Greece reaches into the Mediterranean and forms a crossroads with history.
Published Jul 14, 2014
Strong, hot winds known as “berg winds” (mountain winds) are lofting plumes of dust directly out into the Atlantic Ocean in this panoramic image taken from the International Space Station.
Published Jul 7, 2014
Hurricane Arthur is forecast to strengthen and graze or strike the Outer Banks of North Carolina tonight as a Category 2 hurricane.
Published Jul 4, 2014
Recently tweeted from the International Space Station, this image of the extremely arid West African coast of the Atlantic Ocean looks otherworldly.
Published Jun 30, 2014
The aurora borealis, the Moon, and Moscow light up a spring evening.
Published Jun 23, 2014
The green-brown waters of Lake Barkol sit within the pale shorelines of an ancient lake, hinting that the climate was once much wetter in this part of western China.
Published Jun 21, 2014
Astronauts have the best view of the city’s well-known “swept wing” city layout, which takes the form of a flying bird that is expressed in the curves of the boulevards. The stadium sits between the wings.
Published Jun 16, 2014
Aspects of city planning and building have effects on the urban heat island.
Published Jun 9, 2014
The waters around this Italian city provide a study in how humans affect the seas and how the seas affect human settlement.
Published Jun 2, 2014
Crews on the International Space Station seldom see the southern tip of Argentina and Chile in such clear weather.
Published May 26, 2014
Planted in Japan for at least the last four centuries, greenbelts protect coastlines from storms and sand movement; they are increasingly providing recreation areas as well.
Published May 19, 2014
The world’s deepest lake was shedding some of its ice cover when the space station passed over in April 2014.
Published May 12, 2014
Off the coast of northern Japan and eastern Russia, a swirl of currents push ice around in a clash of winter and summer currents.
Published Apr 28, 2014
Near the city of Little Rock, the river has meandered for decades, leaving its marks across the landscape.
Published Apr 21, 2014
You can almost sense the invisible tectonic forces within the Earth when you look at this geological icon from space.
Published Apr 14, 2014
Sitting inside barrier islands of the eastern and southern United States—and cutting through them in points—the waterway provides a safer passage for shipping commerce.
Published Apr 7, 2014
The lack of soil and vegetation allows parallel lines and sweeping curves of geological structure to appear quite clearly.
Published Mar 31, 2014
Snow and ice cover the landscape around this basin of Lake Michigan.
Published Mar 24, 2014
Bolts light up Earth’s atmosphere 4 million times a day. Scientists hope to observe a few.
Published Mar 23, 2014
The Green River in eastern Utah once carved soft sediment into meanders on a floodplain. Then the land and mountains rose and the river dug deep, preserving those meanders in stone.
Published Mar 17, 2014
Southwesterly winds pull strands of land-fast ice out into the lake from Washington Island and Detroit Island.
Published Mar 10, 2014
Straddling the southern Andes Mountains in Chile and Argentina, these glaciers have thinned significantly in the past four decades.
Published Mar 3, 2014
Night lights illustrate dramatically the relative economic activity of cities and countries.
Published Feb 24, 2014
An astronaut snapped this image of lines of gas flares at an oilfield in southern Iraq at night.
Published Feb 22, 2014
This small town at the foot of the Swartberg Mountains is a productive oasis in the Karoo semidesert, rich with olive groves, sheep and ostrich ranches, and (lately) tourists.
Published Feb 20, 2014
Astronauts who held the Olympic flame just three months ago now look down on it from space.
Published Feb 17, 2014
Small islands in the Crozet Archipelago of the southern Indian Ocean disturb the air flow above.
Published Feb 10, 2014
