Earth's Atmosphere
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Low clouds trace the branching valleys of the Appalachian Plateau and the Cumberland River, then burn off by afternoon.
The ozone hole ranked seventh largest by area in 48 years of monitoring, but it was not as deep as…
Though it remained offshore, the storm lashed coastal areas with high winds and flooding—and produced remarkable rippling patterns in the…
Scientists captured rare observations of an ephemeral pileus cloud hovering over a smoke-infused cloud that rose above a wildfire in…
A low-lying cloud layer brought autumn ambience to western Washington and Oregon, while mountainous areas near the coast remained above…
At a time of year when dust storm activity winds down, a plume of dust blanketed parts of the West…
With austral winter nearing its end, clouds cleared for a satellite view of volcanic activity in the remote South Atlantic.
The Pacific was buzzing with storms while the Atlantic was notably quiet.
NASA aircraft are sampling smoke lofted high into the atmosphere by one of the most formidable cloud types in the…
New animations from NASA's PREFIRE mission reveal two years of seasonal temperature swings at the Arctic and Antarctic.
Brown carbon, emitted by wildland fires and tracked over the span of a week in July 2026, worsened air quality…
Canadian wildfires sent plumes of smoke streaming over Ontario, Quebec, and parts of the U.S. Midwest and Northeast.
The TEMPO mission helped scientists track morning nitrogen dioxide that contributed to afternoon ozone along the New York–Washington corridor in…
An astronaut’s photo, taken en route to the Moon, reveals our planet and its place in space in a novel…
Satellites observed striking upper-atmosphere phenomena generated by an intensifying tropical cyclone.
An astronaut on the International Space Station was surprised to photograph a shower of light streaking through the darkness while…
Valley fog gathered in the Victorian Alps while an arch-shaped cloud drifted across Port Phillip Bay.
Icy, isolated Peter I Island stirred up a show in the atmosphere off the West Antarctic coast.
