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Terra satellite image of sediment in ocean off Australian coast

Cyclone Rusty's Rains Stirred Up Sediment

03.04.2013
Cyclone Rusty's heavy rains created sediment filled rivers and tributaries that flowed northwest into the Southern Indian Ocean.
Satellite image of swirls in the waters off France in Bay of Biscay

Swirls in the Waters off France

05.17.2013
Springtime has brought a substantial and long-lasting bloom of phytoplankton in the Bay of Biscay, off the western coast of France.
Photograph of Laguna Verde taken from by astronaut on ISS

Laguna Verde

05.17.2013
This photograph taken by an astronaut on the International Space Station shows water of different colors within sub-basins of the Laguna (lake) Verde in the high Andes of northwest Argentina.
Photo of NASA's rover, GROVER, rolling on Greenland ice sheet

GROVER Debuts on Greenland's Ice Sheet

05.10.2013
NASA's new Earth-bound rover began testing on the Greenland ice sheet this week.
map of IceBridge flight coverage over Greenland

IceBridge 2013 Coverage

05.14.2013
Airborne photo of ice-bound Davis Strait

IceBridge Flight Over Baffin Island

04.19.2013
Previous surveys showed this ice cap thinning and glaciers retreating. The April 12 mission was to measure several glaciers in the area to see how much the Penny Ice Cap has melted in recent years.
LDCM on the launchpad

LDCM Prelaunch

02.11.2013
satellite image of snow on desert terrain

Storm Turns the Taklimakan Desert White

01.02.2013
Snow-covered deserts are rare, but that’s exactly what the MODIS instrument on NASA’s Aqua satellite observed as it passed over the Taklimakan Desert in western China.
satellite image of Earth at night showing Africa, Europe, and the Middle East

Black Marble - Africa, Europe, and the Middle East

12.06.2012
This new image of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East at night is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite in April and October 2012.
Flat map of Earth at Night

City Lights 2012

12.06.2012
This new image of the Earth at night is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite over 22 days in April and October 2012.
Natural color image of Mergui Archipelago

Mergui Archipelago

12.06.2012
In the southernmost reaches of Burma (Myanmar) lies the Mergui Archipelago. The archipelago in the Andaman Sea is made up of more than 800 islands surrounded by extensive coral reefs.
Still from animation showing motion of ice in Antarctica

Antarctic Ice Flow

11.02.2012
An international effort yielded the first complete map depicting the speed and direction of ice flow over the entire Antarctic.
GOES image of Hurricane Sandy

Sandy

11.01.2012
NOAA's GOES satellite captured this visible image of Hurricane Sandy battering the U.S. East coast on Monday, Oct. 29. Tropical Storm force winds were about 1,000 miles in diameter at this time.
aerial photo of Antarctic sea ice

A Mixture of Sea Ice

11.01.2012
Sea ice imagery is used during NASA’s Operation IceBridge over Antarctica to detect areas of open water so that scientists can calculate the thickness of the surrounding sea ice.
photo of colorful aurora

CME Causes Colorful Aurora

10.03.2012
An aurora in Whitehorse Yukon Canada that appeared in the sky in the early hours of Oct. 1, 2012 due to the effects of a coronal mass ejection (CME) that erupted from the sun three days earlier.
still image from a scientific visualization

Shields up!

08.15.2012
Layers of armor protect Earth from the sun's harmful energies, while letting in heat and light that power the climate.
satellite image of mississippi river

Meandering Mississippi

05.12.2011
The small, blocky shapes of towns, fields, and pastures surround the graceful swirls and whorls of the Mississippi River.
image of phytoplankton bloom in ocean

Van Gogh from space

05.12.2011
In the style of Van Gogh's painting "Starry Night," massive congregations of greenish phytoplankton swirl in the dark water around Gotland, a Swedish island in the Baltic Sea.
Like blue rivulets through pink/yellow spongy cheese, the mighty Yukon flows to the sea

Yukon Delta

07.23.2012
One of the largest river deltas in the world, and protected as part of the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge, the river's waterways seem like blood vessels branching out to enclose an organ.
Algerian Abstract Earth as Art image

Algerian Abstract

07.23.2012
What look like pale yellow paint streaks slashing through a mosaic of mottled colors are ridges of wind-blown sand that make up Erg Iguidi, one of several Saharan sand seas.
Lake Eyre

Lake Eyre

07.23.2012
Deep in the desert country of northern South Australia, Lake Eyre is an ephemeral feature of this flat, parched landscape. When seasonal rains are abundant, water fills the lakebed to some degree.
photo of mesospheric clouds

Polar Mesospheric Clouds

07.20.2012
Near the poles in the spring and summer, these noctilucent (night-shining) clouds typically appear as delicate, shining threads against the darkness of space.
Image of Earth from space

The view from the top

06.28.2012
Using images from the Visible/Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on the recently-launched Suomi-NPP satellite, a NASA scientist has compiled a new view showing the Arctic and high latitudes.
Image of Columbia Glacier in Alaska

Columbia Glacier, Alaska

05.24.2012
Since 1980, the volume of this glacier spilling into the Prince William Sound has shrunk by half. While climate change may have contributed, mechanical forces have played the largest role.
satellite photo of cloud formations

Von Kármán vortices

04.16.2012
Von Kármán vortices, which can appear as long linear chains of spiral eddies, form nearly anywhere that fluid flow is disturbed by an object.
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