Under the right environmental conditions, pollution from ships can make long, bright tracks amidst the clouds.
Image of the Day Atmosphere Human Presence
Shiveluch and Klyuchevskaya volcanoes were busily puffing away in early January 2018.
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Kadovar volcano erupts for the first time.
Atmosphere Land Volcanoes
In central China, the human footprint brightens the night and dulls the snowscape.
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In early January, ice covered most of the lake and prevented the formation of extensive lake-effect clouds.
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Forecasters expect the storm to move south along the island’s east coast.
Atmosphere Land Water Severe Storms
Cold and dry air from Siberia typically produce this cloud formation over the sea from November through January.
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Blasts of Arctic air spilling into the Midwest and Northeast are poised to make New Year’s Eve frigid for many Americans.
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The Thomas fire is now the fourth largest wildfire on record in California.
Atmosphere Heat Land Fires
An unusual storm blanketed parts of the Deep South with snow.
Land Unique Imagery Snow and Ice
In December 2017, thick smoke streamed from several fires burning in southern California.
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The storm system kicked up dust, stirred up smog, and brought heavy rainfall to the Arabian Sea coast of India.
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Winds lofted sand and dust particles over northern Iran’s Great Salt Desert.
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Discolored water near the Italian coast suggests either a phytoplankton bloom or suspended sediment.
Land Water Water Color
Mount Agung continues to erupt, ejecting a volcanic plume of gas and ash over the Indonesian island of Bali.
Phytoplankton bloomed in springtime waters off of South Island.
Life Water Water Color
Researchers keep a close watch on dust storms around the Gulf of Alaska because the nutrients in that dust may affect marine ecosystems.
Image of the Day Atmosphere Land Water Dust and Haze
An October dust storm darkened skies over much of Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
Image of the Day Atmosphere Dust and Haze
Many farmers in India set fire to their fields to clear them before planting, a practice known as stubble burning.
Heat Land Fires
Peak autumn colors have arrived in some parts of the eastern United States and Canada.
Land Unique Imagery
Scientists rely on satellites to piece together the life stories of icebergs from Antarctica, some of which have been adrift for decades.
Image of the Day Water Snow and Ice
The storm was expected to intensify significantly and might make landfall on the Japanese mainland.
Image of the Day Atmosphere Water Severe Storms
Aircraft campaigns have the potential to help scientists answer one of the toughest challenges in hurricane forecasting.
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No longer a hurricane, Ophelia still delivered severe weather to Ireland and parts of the United Kingdom.
Atmosphere Land Severe Storms Human Presence
Blazes that started on a few hundred acres around Napa Valley were fanned by strong northeasterly winds into more than 100,000 acres of burned land in just two days.
A combination of very warm days, unusually frosty nights, and little rainfall have turned the landscape brown for the start of spring.
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While leaves and crops on land took on typical fall colors of orange and brown, the lake displayed vivid shades of green.
Image of the Day Water Water Color
Forecasters expect the storm to strike Japan.
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Typhoon Talim and tropical storm Doksuri are heading toward Japan and Vietnam.
Atmosphere Severe Storms
The storm moved toward the west coast of the peninsula, though effects were being felt along both coasts and across the interior.
Image of the Day Atmosphere Water Severe Storms Human Presence