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An unprecedented heat wave that started around June 26, 2021, smashed numerous all-time temperature records in the...
Images from the U.S./European Jason-3 satellite show sea surface height with respect to the seasonal cycle and the...
The Dust Concentration Monitor and the Millimeter Wave Doppler Radar undergo testing inside a regolith bin at the...
A team at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida assesses the Dust Concentration Monitor and the Millimeter Wave...
A team at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida assesses the Dust Concentration Monitor and the Millimeter Wave...
A team at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida assesses the Dust Concentration Monitor and the Millimeter Wave...
A team at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida assesses the Dust Concentration Monitor and the Millimeter Wave...
The Dust Concentration Monitor and the Millimeter Wave Doppler Radar undergo testing inside a regolith bin at the...
STS054-72-056 (13-19 Jan 1993) --- A ship wake in the Bay of Bengal is noticeable in this 70mm frame. The sun glint...
Collecting temperature readings in the atmosphere and at the surface, NASA's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS)...
The most recent sea-level height data from the NASA/European Ocean Surface Topography Mission/Jason-2 oceanography...
Pools of warm water known as Kelvin waves can be seen traveling eastward along the equator black line in this image...
Perseverance's Radar Imager for Mars' Subsurface Experiment (RIMFAX) uses radar waves to probe the ground, revealing...
These open ocean Internal Waves were seen off the Namibia Coast, Africa (19.5S, 11.5E). The periodic and regularly...
These open ocean Internal Waves were seen off the Namibia Coast, Africa (23.0S, 14.0E). The periodic and regularly...
The surface of this image looks wavy, like that of the sea. These wave shapes are the result of erosion: the removal...
This temperature map shows the land surface temperatures throughout Los Angeles County on Aug. 14, 2020. The...
This temperature map shows the land surface temperatures around Death Valley in California's Mojave Desert on Aug....
The arculate fronts of these apparently converging internal waves off the northeast coast of Somalia (11.5N, 51.5E)...
To predict weather on a planet, we look at Rossby waves, large movement patterns in the atmosphere, like the jet...
STS068-236-044 (30 September-11 October 1994) --- These internal waves in the Andaman Sea, west of Burma, were...
STS044-79-077 (24 Nov.-1 Dec. 1991) --- This photograph, captured from the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Atlantis,...
Displayed in blue color is the height of sea surface (shown in blue) measured by the Jason satellite two hours after...
STS060-88-070 (3-11 Feb 1994) --- This view shows sunglint in the Strait of Gibralter. In this photograph a high...