Friday, August 11th, 2023
After charting a zigzagging path that delivered damaging winds and rain to Japan’s Ryukyu Islands, Tropical Cyclone Khanun brushed Kyushu and began heading toward the Korean Peninsula. The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the NOAA-NASA Suomi NPP satellite...
Monday, July 31st, 2023
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station took this nighttime photograph of the coastal Mediterranean city of Antalya, Türkiye, in Asia. Located on the southern coast of Türkiye, Antalya is the largest city in this view. The...
Monday, July 17th, 2023
An unusual collection of clouds appeared over the interior of Australia on the morning of July 5, 2023. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image of the stunning display, which stretched for more than 1,000...
Thursday, June 15th, 2023
After stirring in the Arabian Sea for more than a week, Cyclone Biparjoy neared the coastline of western India and southern Pakistan in June 2023. The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the NOAA-20 satellite acquired this natural-color image of...
Tuesday, June 6th, 2023
Wadis, or river valleys that are dry in winter months, in Yemen were pictured by UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut and Expedition 69 Flight Engineer Sultan Alneyadi from the International Space Station as it orbited 256 miles...
Monday, May 22nd, 2023
The Ocean Exploration Trust (OET) 2023 Expedition Season has officially begun. Underway now, its first expedition (NA149) utilizing remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) returns to U.S. waters surrounding Kingman Reef and Palmyra Atoll, home to some of the...
Monday, May 8th, 2023
For the last four years, water in the Gulf of Mannar has turned bright green in September and October as the population of a single-celled phytoplankton called Noctiluca scintillans soared. These large blooms of the marine dinoflagellates...
Monday, April 24th, 2023
Clouds gather over Nepal near Mount Everest (center) in this April 13, 2023, photograph from the International Space Station. This image was taken as the station orbited 263 miles above the Indian subcontinent. In addition to photography,...
Tuesday, April 11th, 2023
South Korea’s capital city, Seoul, and surroundings are featured in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission on Feb. 21, 2023. The Han River runs through the city, and to the right of the image it can...
Tuesday, March 28th, 2023
A comma-shaped low-pressure system that pushed across Mongolia and China unleashed a major dust storm in late-March 2023. A tight pressure gradient fueled the strong winds that lifted sand and dust from the Gobi Desert as the system moved into eastern China on March...
