Earth Matters

Your challenge is to use the comments section to tell us what we are looking at and why this place is interesting.

A posthumous plea for more satellite observations of carbon arrived this week from astronaut and scientist Piers Sellers.

More data and imagery of the eruption is flowing in than Earth Observatory can cover, but here are a few striking images that we would be remiss not to share.

Pilots and passengers on aircraft have a good chance of seeing a glory, earning this colorful optical phenomenon the name “glory of the pilot” or “pilot’s halo.”