ABCs from Space
An Earth Observatory Collection
Holla Bend, a refuge along the Arkansas River, benefits bunches of babbling birds.
What begins with T? Taal, Tolbachik, and trees amidst this tan terrain.
Nimbus and nuclei and the near-infrared all bring us earth science joy.
What starts with Y? Yellowstone, the Yukon Delta, and the Yellow Sea.
Keen to see K from space? See what satellites have have kindly revealed.
J brings us joy when we view it from space.
Some people see animals or omens in the clouds and landscape. We see letters.
Ash paints the snow to the northwest and northeast of Russia’s Shiveluch volcano.
Crisscrossing glaciers in northwest Greenland flow along the path of least resistance.
The Green River in eastern Utah once carved soft sediment into meanders on a floodplain. Then the land and mountains…
At the southern end of Bahrain Island, at the furthest point from the cities of the kingdom, a new complex…
A phytoplankton bloom colored the waters east of New Zealand on October 25, 2009.
Scraped clean and weighted down for thousands of years by Pleistocene ice sheets, Akimiski Island in James Bay provides a…
India’s Lonar Crater began causing confusion soon after it was identified. Lonar Crater sits inside the Deccan Plateau—a massive plain…
Deep in the Sahara Desert lies a crater. Nearly a perfect circle, it is 1.9 kilometers (1.2 miles) wide, and…
Canada’s Mackenzie River, the country’s longest, spills out of Great Slave Lake, just north of the border between Alberta and…
The Andaman Islands consist of more than 500 islands in the Bay of Bengal. The largest islands comprise Great Andaman,…
The image shows Goosenecks State Park, where the river is surrounded by canyon walls more than 1,000 feet high.
These two images of the Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia, illustrate diversity in the morphology of atolls, one of the major…
