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A Smoky Start to Saskatchewan’s Fire Season
2025.05.13
Still early in the fire season, satellites in mid-May observed intense blazes and towering plumes of smoke.
On-Again, Off-Again at Kilauea
2025.05.09
The Hawaiian volcano has been spewing fountains of lava with remarkable frequency.
Spring Flooding in Kazakhstan
2025.05.08
Warm temperatures and spring rains unleashed a surge of water that inundated riverside communities in the northern part of the Central Asian country.
Late-Autumn Storm Lashes New Zealand
2025.05.06
Wintry conditions swept across the mountains, while destructive wind and flooding hit some of the country’s largest cities.
NASA Data Helps Map Tiny Plankton That Feed Giant Right Whales
2025.05.05
In the waters off New England, one of Earth’s rarest mammals swims slowly, mouth agape. The North Atlantic right whale filters clouds of tiny reddish zooplankton — called Calanus finmarchicus — from the sea. These zooplankton, no bigger than grains of rice, are the whale’s lifeline. Only about 370 of these massive creatures remain.
Spawning Spectacle
2025.05.05
A late-season herring spawn in a British Columbia inlet created a vibrant patch of turquoise water.
Arkansas Farmers Face Lingering Floodwaters
2025.05.03
Many growers have been forced to replant as a prolonged flood killed off crops in the Arkansas Delta.
Blackout in Andalusia
2025.05.01
Satellite-derived maps of nighttime lights in southern Spain revealed power outages that persisted across rural areas as the region was recovering from a widespread blackout.
Floods Give Way to a Burst of Desert Life
2025.04.30
Heavy rain in Queensland sent floodwaters coursing through the Australian Outback. Carpets of green emerged in their wake.
NASA's Curious Universe Earth Series: From Space to Your Plate
2025.04.29
Earth has an incredibly varied and ever-changing landscape—jagged mountains, arid deserts, lush rainforests, rolling wheat fields. Before NASA came on the scene, no one was keeping a systematic eye on the ground from above. One long-running satellite program collects the data farmers need to grow the crops that feed the world.
Dusty Days Are Here Again for El Paso
2025.04.29
Spring and early summer in the Chihuahuan Desert are dusty, but El Paso and the Borderplex region are experiencing one of their dustiest seasons since the 1930s Dust Bowl.
New Jersey Pine Barrens Ablaze
2025.04.25
Fires in these coastal forests can rejuvenate ecosystems but also threaten large numbers of people and homes in the densely populated state.
NASA's Curious Universe Earth Series: The Ocean, Now in Full Color
2025.04.22
Life all over the planet—even far from the coasts—depends on the oceans. A pair of NASA satellites, PACE and SWOT, is giving us a fresh look at Earth’s water. PACE tracks color changes driven by tiny plankton, which give us us a big-picture view of ocean life. By measuring sea level height from space, SWOT shows ocean currents and other features...
Celebrating Earth as Only NASA Can
2025.04.21
This Earth Day, NASA is sharing how — by building on decades of innovation—we use the unique vantage point of space to observe and understand our dynamic planet in ways that we cannot from the ground.
Testing in the Clouds: NASA Flies to Improve Satellite Data
2025.04.16
In February, NASA’s ER-2 science aircraft flew instruments designed to improve satellite data products and Earth science observations. From data collection to processing, satellite systems continue to advance, and NASA is exploring how instruments analyzing clouds can improve data measurement methods.
Signs of the Season in Pine Island Bay
2025.04.16
A major embayment in West Antarctica saw new sea ice growth in autumn 2025 amid older sea ice that had survived the austral summer melt season.
NASA's Curious Universe Earth Series: How NASA Sees Our Blue Marble
2025.04.15
NASA is an exploration agency, and one of our missions is to know our home. In the 1960s, NASA astronauts orbiting the Moon captured a revelatory view of Earth. Today, NASA explores our home planet with a fleet of dozens of spacecraft.
Clouds Hover Over the Alaska Peninsula
2025.04.14
Winds interacted with mountainous terrain to produce long, sharp-edged standing wave clouds.
Blooming British Isles
2025.04.10
The colorful North Atlantic waters visible around the archipelago in April 2025 are likely due to a mix of phytoplankton and suspended sediment.
Building Out Chattanooga
2025.04.10
Signs of urban expansion cover parts of Tennessee’s “scenic city,” which is nestled along the meandering Tennessee River.
Flooding Along the Mississippi
2025.04.09
A slow-moving storm system dumped heavy rain across the Midwest and Southeast and fueled major floods along several of the river’s tributaries.
NASA's Curious Universe Earth Series: Welcome to Earth
2025.04.08
There’s one planet NASA studies more than any other: Earth. With our unique vantage point from space, NASA collects information about our home in ways nobody else can. In this podcast miniseries, celebrate our home planet by learning how NASA studies Earth...
South Korea Charred by Fire
2025.04.08
Following destructive fires in March 2025, satellite imagery showed burned land stretching more than 80 kilometers toward the coastline in the country’s southeast.
A Curtain of Dust Over the Tarim Basin
2025.04.05
In a seasonal spectacle, a spring dust storm swept through the dry, barren basin in western China.
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