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Lightning is a naturally occurring electrostatic discharge during which two electrically charged regions, both in the atmosphere or with one on the ground, temporarily neutralize themselves, causing the instantaneous release of an average of one gigajoule of energy. This...
July 18, 2022 Though much of the far southern hemisphere is bathed in winter darkness, there was a bit of light last week. The aurora australis, or southern lights, fluttered...
June 11, 2023. Germany’s smallest national park occupies a distant corner of Rügen, an island in the Baltic Sea. Within this diminutive parcel, however, stands primeval beech forests with...
From detaching the module from its moorings in the assembly pit to lifting and transporting it to the sub-assembly tool, more than one hundred different steps had to be...
July 5, 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...
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,...
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...