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Low Water at San Carlos Reservoir
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Drought and water releases drained the Arizona reservoir to levels that have led to widespread fish deaths.

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Nebraska’s Wide, Rolling Domain
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The Nebraska Sandhills—the largest system of sand dunes in the Western Hemisphere—stretch across about one-quarter of the state.

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Pumice Rafts Encroach on Admiralty Islands
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Buoyant volcanic rock fragments from an underwater eruption drifted across the Bismarck Sea and choked island coasts.

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World Cup Fever in Guadalajara
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The city's metro area has pushed westward since it last hosted World Cup matches in 1986, expanding across a landscape shaped by ancient volcanoes.

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NASA, USGS Scientists Go Rock Hounding in California’s High Desert
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Equipped with rock picks and hand lenses, a team of geoscientists deployed to the Mojave Desert recently to investigate a tantalizing “fingerprint” detected by a NASA sensor. Their target: a cache of topaz hiding in plain sight. The geologists weren’t…

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Air Pollution’s Daily Pulse Over the Northeast
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The TEMPO mission helped scientists track morning nitrogen dioxide that contributed to afternoon ozone along the New York–Washington corridor in May 2026.

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Jim Irons, Former Landsat Project Scientist, Wins Pecora Award
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Landsat’s Jim Irons won the prestigious William T. Pecora Award. Irons, now an emeritus scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, played an integral role in shaping the Landsat program into what it is today.

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Tyndall’s Trail of Bergs
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Ice splintered off the southern Patagonia glacier and drifted across a growing glacial lake.

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

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San Francisco’s Metropolitan Mosaic
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Urban development, green spaces, and maritime activity converge in this Northern California city.

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