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Monday, January 12th, 2026

Ganges Delta Under a Winter Shroud of Fog 

Winter weather took hold across the Indo-Gangetic Plain in early January 2026, bringing dense fog and cold temperatures to much of the flat, fertile lands that span from Pakistan and northern India to Bangladesh.  This image shows...

Tuesday, December 16th, 2025

New Timing for Stubble Burning in India 

Every year for decades, long rivers of smoke and haze have spread across the Indo-Gangetic Plain in northern India from October to December. That's when farmers in Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and other states burn off plant "stubble" after...

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025

Flooding in Sri Lanka 

Puttalam district in North Western Sri Lanka is currently facing severe flooding, landslides and rockfalls, caused by heavy monsoon rains across the region. The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captured an image over the region on Nov. 30, 2025...

Tuesday, November 11th, 2025

MapmyIndia to Develop National Geospatial Platform for Survey of India 

CE Info Systems Limited (MapmyIndia) won a contract by the Survey of India to create a unified digital infrastructure for aggregating, harmonizing and disseminating authentic geospatial data and services. This indigenous technology-based platform will support various sectors,...

Tuesday, October 28th, 2025

Expedition on E/V Nautilus to Explore Deep Waters of the Cook Islands 

Located in the South-Central Pacific, the Cook Islands is comprised of 15 islands surrounded by more than 770,000 square miles of ocean, the vast majority of which remain unmapped and unexplored.  During the expedition, mapping, telepresence and...

Sunday, October 12th, 2025

Cyclone Errol Seen Approaching Australia 

On April 16, 2025, when this image was acquired by Copernicus Sentinel-3’s Ocean and Land Colour Instrument, Cyclone Errol reached its peak intensity with wind gusts of 285 km/h. The typical pinhole eye—a small, well-defined eye often...

Friday, September 26th, 2025

Typhoon Ragasa Seen from Space 

Captured on Sept. 24, 2025, by EUMETSAT’s MetOp-B satellite, this image shows Typhoon Ragasa swirling south of Hong Kong. Days earlier, Ragasa struck the northern Philippines with winds reaching 295 km/h, causing evacuations, power cuts and widespread...

Monday, September 15th, 2025

Earth from Space: Gibson Desert, Australia 

Part of the Gibson Desert in Western Australia is featured in this image captured by the Φsat-2 mission in June 2025.  Covering an area of more than 150,000 square kilometers, the desert consists of gravel terrains covered by desert...

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025

Algae Bloom of Chlorophyll In South Australia 

This image acquired by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission and its Ocean and Land Colour Instrument shows high concentrations of chlorophyll in yellow-green along the coastline of South Australia, near Adelaide. Chlorophyll is a key indicator of the presence of...

Wednesday, August 13th, 2025

Chinese Launch Startup Unveils Autonomous Rocket Recovery Ship 

Chinese launch startup iSpace launched the nation’s first rocket-recovery ship, marking a major step toward offshore reusable rocket operations.   Read more here.   Image Credit: iSpace 

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