May 10, 2024. Since NASA first landed humans on the Moon during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, we have continued to revere our nearest celestial neighbor. Whether for its...
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July 9, 2024. Large numbers of intense, smoky fires spread across eastern Russia in the summer of 2024, shrouding the region’s skies, forests, and communities in smoke. One of...
December 4, 2023 to July 1, 2024. After heating up the eastern Pacific Ocean for about a year, El Niño finally died out in May 2024. The natural climate...
February 26, 2024. Huge, thick ice sheets blanket much of the Antarctic continent. Amid all this ice, numerous volcanoes dot the landscape. Many are partially buried, with only their...
July 8, 2024. After tearing through the Caribbean and the Yucatan Peninsula, Hurricane Beryl swept ashore over the Gulf Coast of Texas on July 8, 2024. The Category 1...
June 15, 2024. Dry land is ephemeral at Home Reef, a mid-ocean volcano in the central Tonga islands. Cycles of eruptions and erosion have periodically created and destroyed a...
July 30, 2023. Since publishing NASA Earth Observatory Goes to the Beach in July 2017, we have explored even more of the planet’s coasts via satellite images and astronaut...
August 10, 2023. While in orbit over central Asia, an astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this photograph of Fayzabad. The city, the capital of the Badakhshan Province,...
June 30, 2024.. The first Atlantic hurricane of 2024 produced dangerous winds and life-threatening storm surge as it barreled into the Caribbean’s Grenadine Islands. On the morning of July...
November 10, 2020. Since publishing NASA Earth Observatory Goes to the Beach in July 2017, we have explored even more of the planet’s coasts via satellite images and astronaut...