July 17, 2023.. After three years of quiet, the Shishaldin volcano in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands erupted in mid-July 2023. Explosions from the volcano lofted ash several miles into the...
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July 15, 2023. In the early hours of July 15, 2023, a wildfire broke out on La Palma, the most northwesterly of the Canary Islands. The Moderate Resolution Imaging...
July 18, 2023. Several potent storms stirred over the Pacific Ocean in late July 2023. While Tropical Storm Calvin moved closer to the Hawaiian Islands in the Central Pacific...
July 25, 2023. An unprecedented streak of extreme temperatures scorched the southwestern U.S. in July 2023. Blistering temperatures have lingered in the region for more than three weeks, contributing...
April 1, 2023. An astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured this photograph of a short 30-kilometer-long segment of Lake Nasser—one of the world’s largest artificial lakes. The almost...
June 12, 2023. Algae has covered about half of Lake Okeechobee—Florida’s largest freshwater lake—for much of June and early July 2023. The algae bloom led to the closure of...
July 5, 2023. An unusual collection of clouds appeared over the interior of Australia on the morning of July 5, 2023. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s...
July 9, 2017. Since NASA Earth Observatory started publishing images in 1999, the archive has grown to contain more than 17,000 stories. This week, Image of the Day stories...
DIII-D has been conducting groundbreaking fusion research since the mid-1980s. DIII-D has over 100 participating institutions and a research team of more than 600 users. Fusion worldDIII-D, ADVANCING FUSION...
April 18, 2019 – August 4, 2021. The state of Rondônia in western Brazil—once home to 208,000 square kilometers (about 51.4 million acres) of forest—has become one of the...