Earth Observation
Explosive Phytoplankton Bloom Seen From Space
[/caption] Phytoplankton are tiny, microscopic plant-like organisms, but when they get together and start growing they can cover hundreds of…
Manhattan-Sized Ice Island Seen From Space
[/caption] Taken by NASA astronaut and Expedition 27 flight engineer Ron Garan, this image shows the Petermann Ice Island (PII-A)…
Satellite Looks Down the Eye of Erupting Nabro Volcano
[/caption] Wow! What an amazing and detailed top-down view of an active volcano! This is the Nabro Volcano, which has…
The View from 100,000 Feet
I love these student projects that send a camera via a balloon high in the atmosphere to film the view…
New Satellite Will ‘Taste’ Earth’s Salty Seas from Orbit
[/caption] From a JPL press release: Final preparations are under way for the June 9 launch of the international Aquarius/SAC-D…
Mississippi River Flooding As Seen from the Space Station
[/caption] Big Muddy, as the Mississippi River is known, looks especially big and muddy these days with record flooding occurring…
Satellite Imagery Shows How Tornadoes Slashed Across Alabama, Mississippi
[/caption] Some extraordinary satellite and radar imagery shows how the deadly tornado supercell slashed through Alabama and Mississippi last week,…
Satellite Captures 3-D View of Violent Storms that Ravaged the US on April 27-28
[/caption] NASA’s Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite captured 3-D images of severe thunderstorms that were spawning tornadoes over the…
Arctic Ozone Levels Reach All-Time Low
In the past, massive ozone loss over Antarctica has grabbed the headlines. But this year, measurements by several different sources…
New Results from GOCE: Earth is a Rotating Potato
Although they aren't particularly fond of the comparison, scientists from the GOCE satellite team had to admit that new data…