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America’s Emerald Isle
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Beaver Island is one in a string of verdant and scenic jewels in a northern Lake Michigan archipelago.

May 13, 2026
Australia’s Cloudy Beauty
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Valley fog gathered in the Victorian Alps while an arch-shaped cloud drifted across Port Phillip Bay.

May 12, 2026
May 2026 Satellite Puzzler
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Your challenge is to tell us the location of the satellite image and why it is interesting.

May 11, 2026
NASA’s C-20A Flights Advance Understanding of Earthquake Dynamics
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NASA’s C-20A aircraft completed a series of flights on April 29 over Central California to contribute new data to improve the accuracy of the region’s earthquake models and support NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar), the U.S.-India satellite mission launched last…

May 11, 2026
Joint Earth Observation Mission Quality Assessment Framework – Optical Guidelines Documents Released
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The Optical Guidelines document provides standardized, transparent, and repeatable process for assessing the quality of optical data from commercial Earth Observation missions.

May 11, 2026
Color Off the Mid-Atlantic Coast
4 min read

Something is brewing in shallow waters offshore of Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia.

May 11, 2026
Tracy Arm’s Post-Tsunami Landscape
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A landslide-triggered tsunami stripped vegetation from the shore of the glacial fjord in summer 2025.

May 8, 2026
A Sea of Spinning Clouds
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Icy, isolated Peter I Island stirred up a show in the atmosphere off the West Antarctic coast.

May 7, 2026
Melting Snow Off Shivelyuch
4 min read

Near-constant activity continues on the volcano in Russia.

May 6, 2026
Ahuachapán and Its Restive Neighbors
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From a geothermal hotspot to the one-time “Lighthouse of the Pacific,” the heat is on beneath the volcanic landscape of western El Salvador.

May 5, 2026
NASA Science Supports Golden Eagles on the Move
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NASA-funded research is helping turn golden eagle journeys across mountains, grasslands, and borders into data for wildlife managers.

May 4, 2026
Record-Setting Retreat of Hektoria Glacier
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Scientists relied on satellite data to understand how the Antarctic glacier lost so much ice so rapidly.

May 4, 2026

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