A solar prominence began to bow out and the broke apart in a graceful, floating style in a little less…
Mosaic image of sea ice in the Beaufort Sea created by the Digital Mapping System (DMS) instrument aboard the IceBridge…
The city of Las Vegas, Nevada has undergone a massive growth spurt. Data from the expansion of Las Vegas was…
The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM), flown aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour in February 2000, acquired elevation measurements for nearly all…
The Soyuz TMA-08M rocket launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Friday, March 29, 2013 (Thursday, March 28, U.S.…
The Aquarius spacecraft is designed to measure global sea surface salinity. It is important to understand salinity, the amount of…
Finney County in southwestern Kansas is now irrigated cropland where once there was shortgrass prairie. Common crops are corn, wheat…
Malaspina Glacier in southeastern Alaska is considered the classic example of a piedmont glacier. Piedmont glaciers occur where valley glaciers…
A graceful arc of Saharan dust is streaming off the coast of northwest Africa and sweeping out over the Atlantic…
The night side of our planet twinkles with light, and the first thing to stand out is the cities. “Nothing…
