Image of the Day Land
Clouds hugged the east coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula while skies inland remained clear at the end of May 2009.
Image of the Day Atmosphere Land Water Snow and Ice
Image of the Day Atmosphere Land Water
Fires
In June 2016, a large wildfire burned near the west coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula.
Atmosphere Fires
The remote Russian peninsula was covered in snow and unobscured by clouds.
Unique Imagery Snow and Ice
Volcanoes
Ash paints the snow to the northwest and northeast of Russia’s Shiveluch volcano.
Atmosphere Land Volcanoes Snow and Ice
Sand meets the Caspian Sea in western Turkmenistan, where giant dunes are partially submerged.
South of the city in Thessaloniki in north-central Greece, a large forest fire forced thousands of people to evacuate the southern tip of the Kasandra Peninsula on August 21, 2006.
Land Fires