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A seafloor vent called a "white smoker" spews mineral-rich water into the ocean and serves as an energy hub for...
This image shows a simulated snapshot of ocean turbulence in the North Atlantic Ocean in March 2012, from a...
The Ben Franklin mission has been forgotten by time, overshadowed by the concurrent Apollo 11 mission. However, the...
Mangoro River on Madagascar's east coast leads to the Indian Ocean in this photograph from the Indian Ocean as it...
An Ocean Runs Through It
The oceans play a significant role in absorbing greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide, and heat from the atmosphere....
As Earth warms, much of the extra heat is stored in the planet’s ocean – but monitoring the magnitude of that heat...
Earth’s magnetic field is built up from many contributing sources ranging from the planet’s core to the...
STS054-95-042 (13-19 Jan 1993) --- The Equatorial Pacific Ocean is represented in this 70mm view. The international...
The cloud cover over the Southern Ocean occasionally parts as it did on January 1, 2015 just west of the Drake...
iss071e456772 (July 18, 2024) --- The Moon's glint beams off the Pacific Ocean as stars glitter in the background...
iss071e457356 (July 18, 2024) --- The Moon illuminates a cloud-covered Pacific Ocean as stars glitter in the...
On July 23, 2013 the deep blue waters of the central North Atlantic Ocean provided a background for a spectacular...
For decades, planetary scientists have suspected that ancient Mars was a much warmer, wetter environment than it is...
STS044-79-077 (24 Nov.-1 Dec. 1991) --- This photograph, captured from the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Atlantis,...
STS049-71-042 (8 May 1992) --- This photograph, taken from the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Endeavour, shows a...
Santa Monica High School's winning team in the 2021 National Ocean Sciences Bowl Los Angeles regional competition,...
This image shows ocean surface currents around the world during the period from June 2005 through Decmeber 2007. Go...
This large tabular iceberg, broken off from the Antarctic Ice Sheet, was spotted in the South Atlantic Ocean (57.0S,...
On Oct. 16 at 17:45 UTC NASA's Terra satellite captured this image of Hurricane Gonzalo in the Atlantic Ocean. Image...
STS032-80-036 (9-20 Jan. 1990) --- This oblique view of Tropical Storm Sam in the eastern Indian Ocean off the...
The greens and blues of the ocean color from NASA satellite data have provided new insights into how climate and...
This is a radar image showing surface features on the open ocean in the northeast Atlantic Ocean. There is no land...
NASA’s exploration of the ocean from the vantage point of space is unveiling the mysteries of our interconnected...