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El Niño is a recurring climate pattern characterized by warmer than usual ocean temperatures in the equatorial...
The northeast coast of Hokkaido and Kunashir Island, Japan (44.0N, 143.0E) are seen bordered by drifting sea ice....
The Ben Franklin mission has been forgotten by time, overshadowed by the concurrent Apollo 11 mission. However, the...
This large tabular iceberg, broken off from the Antarctic Ice Sheet, was spotted in the South Atlantic Ocean (57.0S,...
This February 8, 2016 composite image reveals the complex distribution of phytoplankton in one of Earth's eastern...
SL4-137-3655 (16 Dec. 1973) --- An island wake produced by the Antipodes Islands in the ocean current south of New...
STS054-72-056 (13-19 Jan 1993) --- A ship wake in the Bay of Bengal is noticeable in this 70mm frame. The sun glint...
STS046-80-009 (31 July-8 Aug. 1992) --- A view of the mouth of the Amazon River and the Amazon Delta shows a large...
The northern portion of the Gulf of Mexico Loop Current, shown in red, appears about to detach a large ring of...
Like the Antarctic ice sheet, the Greenland ice sheet is a dynamic polar region where the atmosphere, temperature...
STS044-79-077 (24 Nov.-1 Dec. 1991) --- This photograph, captured from the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Atlantis,...
STS054-95-042 (13-19 Jan 1993) --- The Equatorial Pacific Ocean is represented in this 70mm view. The international...
STS040-614-047 (5-14 June 1991) --- This image is of the Norfolk, Virginia -- Southern Delmarva Peninsula Southern...
As part of NASA's Sub-Mesoscale Ocean Dynamics Experiment (S-MODE) field campaign, several Saildrones like the one...
SL4-137-3632 (February 1974) --- A photograph taken from the Skylab space station in Earth orbit illustrating an...
STS007-05-245 (18-24 June 1983) --- A rare view of internal waves in the South China Sea. Several different series...
SL4-137-3721 (February 1974) --- Plankton blooms and color variations in the Falkland Current east of the Argentina...
NAS Facility Hyperwall 2 visit and tour: HQ Review Committee on Facility & Real Property. Showing on Hyperwall Ocean...
Wind currents from Asia and India can carry ozone smog and pollution thousands of miles away to the southern...
This spectacular north looking view of south Greenland (62.0N, 46.0W) shows numerous indentations along the...
Scientists think six icy moons in our solar system may currently host oceans of liquid water beneath their outer...
SL2-16-174 (22 June 1973) --- Norfolk and the lower Chesapeake Bay, VA (37.5N, 75.5W) at the interface of the...
This sea surface height map of the Gulf of Mexico, with the Florida peninsula on the right and the Texas-Mexico Gulf...
SL4-137-3608 (14 Dec. 1973) --- A view of cold water eddies in the Falkland Current off the South Atlantic coast of...