The TEMPO mission helped scientists track morning nitrogen dioxide that contributed to afternoon ozone along the New York–Washington corridor in May 2026.

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Ice splintered off the southern Patagonia glacier and drifted across a growing glacial lake.

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Urban development, green spaces, and maritime activity converge in this Northern California city.

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Once below a shallow sea, Jabal al Fāyah now stands above the desert in the United Arab Emirates as a reminder of a watery past and early human survival.

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In fire-prone ecosystems in Australia’s Northern Territory, prescribed burns are lit to minimize the severity of fires later in the season.

An astronaut’s photo, taken en route to the Moon, reveals our planet and its place in space in a novel way.

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The sprawling storm promised to deliver torrential rain across a wide swath of southern Japan.

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A wildland fire charred grassland, coastal sage scrub, and chaparral across one-third of the island, the second largest of the Channel Islands.

Satellites observed striking upper-atmosphere phenomena generated by an intensifying tropical cyclone.

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Radar data from an agricultural area in South Africa, shown in a vivid color palette, reveal crop types and how they changed during the Southern Hemisphere’s growing season.

Wild disturbances are on the rise, while land disturbed by human activity has been decreasing.

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The volcano on Indonesia’s Halmahera Island routinely ejects ash, volcanic gases, and volcanic bombs.

Once a month during the full Moon, Landsat 9 turns from Earth to image the lunar surface, helping keep the spacecraft’s data accurate and consistent.

In a precursor to Memorial Day, people in Charleston, South Carolina, honored fallen Civil War troops with flowers, songs, and marches at an event at a racetrack on May 1, 1865.

The strongest of several twisters to touch down in the southern part of the state in early May 2026 left a visible path of damaged vegetation.

Satellite imagery shows a surge of new volcanic activity in the ocean near Papua New Guinea.

The glacial lake left a layer of silt and clay in southeastern Manitoba, creating fertile farmland that was divided during 19th-century land surveys and is still farmed today.

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A recent analysis revealed where artificial light at night has intensified, as well as where it has diminished.

Spring melt along Alaska’s Kuskokwim River caused ice jams and flooding.

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Beaver Island is one in a string of verdant and scenic jewels in a northern Lake Michigan archipelago.

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Valley fog gathered in the Victorian Alps while an arch-shaped cloud drifted across Port Phillip Bay.

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Something is brewing in shallow waters offshore of Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia.

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A landslide-triggered tsunami stripped vegetation from the shore of the glacial fjord in summer 2025.

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Icy, isolated Peter I Island stirred up a show in the atmosphere off the West Antarctic coast.

Near-constant activity continues on the volcano in Russia.

From a geothermal hotspot to the one-time “Lighthouse of the Pacific,” the heat is on beneath the volcanic landscape of western El Salvador.

Scientists relied on satellite data to understand how the Antarctic glacier lost so much ice so rapidly.

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Heavy rains from Tropical Cyclone Maila triggered a deadly landslide in the mountains of East New Britain.