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ISS041-E-067595 (6 Oct. 2014) --- This moonlit panorama was shot recently with a wide-angle lens by an Expedition 41...
This illustration depicts the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite, a mission led by NASA and the...
On Sunday, April 28, a category F5 tornado cut an East-West path through La Plata, Maryland, killing 5 and injuring...
A new series of images generated with data from NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite illustrate the...
This illustration depicts the Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite, a mission led by NASA and the French...
The illustration above shows sea levels off the coasts of Peru and Ecuador on Aug. 12, 2023, and Oct. 3, 2023. The...
This is a false-color radar image of Central Africa, showing the Virunga Volcano chain along the borders of Rwanda,...
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captured this view of sand ripples during its 70th flight, on Dec. 22, 2023. Taken...
This data visualization image above shows sea surface heights off the northern California coast in August 2023 as...
STS062-151-220 (4-18 March 1994) --- Great numbers of circular, center-pivot irrigation plots appear in this...
Like dancers pirouetting in opposite directions, the rotational patterns of two different tropical storms are...
The U.S.-French SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) satellite captured the leading edge of a tsunami wave that...
These circular maps shows the distribution of Pluto's dark and bright terrains as revealed by NASA's New Horizons...
ISS031-E-035310 (15 May 2012) --- Sunglint and clouds off Western South America are featured in this image...
This illustration depicts the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite with solar arrays fully deployed....
This look at the complex, ice-covered surface of Jupiter's moon Europa came from NASA's Juno mission during a close...
Two giant swaths of radiation, known as the Van Allen Belts, surrounding Earth were discovered in 1958. In 2012,...
As it glanced around the Saturn system one final time, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this view of the planet's...
The Space Shuttle Discovery cuts a bright swath through the early-morning darkness as it lifts off from Launch Pad...
This animation shows global sea level data collected by the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite...
At left, a NASA AVIRIS map shows the spectral signature of the 2013 Rim fire in and near Yosemite National Park,...
Absorption of solar energy heats up our planet's surface and atmosphere making life for us possible. But the energy...
ISS038-E-036501 (28 Jan. 2014) --- This wide field-of-view image photographed by an Expedition 38 crew member on the...
This animation shows the accumulation of five adjoining swaths of data over the Los Angeles metropolitan area that...