Satellite images separated by 50 years show actinoform clouds over the Pacific Ocean.
Published Jul 19, 2012
Sea breezes and differential heating fill the afternoon sky with puffs of white clouds.
Published Aug 11, 2013
Some astronauts say these wispy, iridescent clouds are the most beautiful phenomena they see from orbit.
Published Aug 20, 2013
Before there was a Blue Marble photograph or composite image of Earth, there was TIROS IX.
Published Apr 22, 2015
Whether a patch of clouds contains open or closed cells offers a clue about whether rain is falling below.
Published Feb 6, 2016
Noctilucent clouds float high enough in the atmosphere to capture a little bit of stray sunlight even after the Sun has set below them.
Published Dec 2, 2016
The wave-like appearance of clouds over Bristol Bay in southwest Alaska are the result of colliding air masses.
Published May 18, 2017
Tendrils of fog outline river valleys as the Andes Mountains block advancing banks of ocean clouds.
Published Jun 14, 2015
Storms and a lunar eclipse are a few of the phenomena visible in animations of Earth’s full disk.
Published Dec 16, 2015
This photo shows the GOES-P satellite launching from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on March 4, 2010.
Published Mar 6, 2010
In June 2007, the Space Shuttle crew visiting the International Space Station (ISS) observed spectacular polar mesospheric clouds over north-central Asia. TThe red-to-dark region at the bottom of the image is the dense part of the Earth’s atmosphere.
Published Aug 13, 2007
Polar mesospheric clouds (also known as noctilucent, or “night-shining” clouds) are transient, upper atmospheric phenomena that are usually observed in the summer months at high latitudes (greater than 50 degrees) of both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. They appear bright and cloudlike while in deep twilight. They are illuminated by sunlight when the lower layers of the atmosphere are in the darkness of Earth’s shadow.
Published Aug 4, 2008
An astronaut on the ISS caught a glimpse of a sliver of the setting Moon and some clouds that shine at night.
Published Aug 10, 2003
Low, moist ocean clouds outline South American country’s coastal desert.
Published May 31, 2014
A overlying deck of stratus clouds over northeastern Germany cast this distinctive shadow on another layer of clouds below.
Published Dec 29, 2012
This stunning photo came back to Earth with the Apollo 8 astronauts in late December 1968.
Published Nov 27, 2008
