June 24, 2023. Mountain chains border both sides of the Red Sea, the long narrow inlet of the Indian Ocean that separates Saudi Arabia to the east from Egypt,...
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March 21, 2022. An astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this photograph of Prague during a nighttime orbit over Central Europe. Prague is the capital of the Czech...
July 4, 2020. 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...
July 22, 2022. On the islands of American Samoa, rugged volcanic terrain is blanketed with dense tropical rainforest and ringed by dramatic coastlines and coral reefs. The U.S. territory...
June 26, 2023. Smoke from wildland fires, which have been burning in the Canadian province of Quebec for weeks, has crossed the Atlantic Ocean and darkened skies in southwestern...
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ITER. Nuclear Fusion for Clean Energy. Diagnostics. EXPERTS MEET TO IMPROVE INFRARED MEASUREMENTS FOR ITER.
ITER infrared diagnostics have optical components that transfer the infrared radiation emanating from the plasma-facing components to cameras located many metres away. The set of planned infrared cameras will...
July 3, 2013. When most people think about NASA, Earth is not the first thing that comes to mind. Our agency conjures up thoughts of leaving Earth behind, so...
June 22, 2023. Two tropical cyclones formed over the Atlantic Ocean and moved toward the Caribbean in June 2023. This marks the first time on record that more than...
June 15, 2023. As spring turned to summer, phytoplankton came to life in the shallow waters of the North Sea. Sunlight and warm ocean temperatures in June 2023 enabled...
June 20, 2023. Kansas normally produces about 25 percent of the U.S. winter wheat crop, but that may not happen this year. As drought gripped the state for much...