Editor’s note: Here’s a roundup of the latest eye-catching earth science videos from NASA and beyond. In March, snow emerged as a theme. Where there is snow, there is water. Scientists trudged through thick white powder in Grand Mesa and the Senator Beck Basin to measure the depth of snow — and its water content — for […]
In Hawaii, land of palm trees, pineapples, and year-round surfing, a full-blown blizzard hit last week. The early March storm brought more than 8 inches (20 centimeters) to the top of Mauna Kea volcano, leading authorities to shut the road to the peak. The snow was all the more surprising given how little has fallen […]
New videos of lightning from the GOES-16 satellite and a blue jet from the International Space Station are spectacular.
Your challenge for the March puzzler is to tell us what part of the world we are looking at, when the image was acquired, what the image shows, and why the scene is interesting.
Regular readers of our site may have noticed our recent piece on the Antarctic Peninsula. That Aqua MODIS shot was made possible by a weather pattern that brings clearer skies to the peninsula in January or February most years. You can see the same pattern in finer detail with a mosaic of Landsat scenes from early 2016. But […]
The massive amount of sediment that atmospheric rivers can send rushing toward the sea can make for some remarkable satellite images.
Here are a few of the images from our archive that our staff love the most.
An analysis of satellite data suggest that crop fires in Punjab in 2016 were the most severe the state has seen in more than decade.
Our latest puzzler is out. Your challenge is to use the comments section to tell us what part of the world we are looking at, when the image was acquired, what the image shows, and why the scene is interesting.
The eruption of Alaska's Bogoslof volcano has changed the island's size and shape.
