Hard to believe we're in day 27 of the shutdown. At least the image frozen at the top of the website—this view of a ridge and river intersecting in a dune field in western China—is one of my all-time favorites. I could stare at this all day. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15484...

Excited to share a new publication led by @drdavepeterson.bsky.social with contributions by Mike Fromm, René Servranckx and others, that analyzes the inventory of all known, worldwide, observed pyroCb events from 2013-2023! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

China normally buys billions of dollars’ worth of U.S. soybeans, but not this year. Here’s where farmers are feeling the pinch. Map based on the Cropland Data Layer. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15441...

September puzzler below. Your challenge is to use the comments section to tell us where it is, what we are looking at, and why this area is interesting. Answer will be posted next week. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthm...

Satellite data show decades of gradual but persistent change in forests around Kisangani, one of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s largest cities. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15481... 🛰️

It’s been a quiet year in the Northwest Pacific for typhoons but #Ragasa seems determined to change that. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15482...

Wildfires affect not just the air we breathe, but the water we drink. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15479...

Geologists have an amazing new superpower. With InSAR satellites, it’s possible to measure how much earthquakes move the land surface and even spot the earliest stirrings of volcanic eruptions from space. 🌍📡🌋 earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15477...

Each year as the sun starts to reappear over Antarctica I start the process of going through Sentinel2 imagery to find the locations of the 66 known emperor penguin colonies. Here is this year's first image, of Snow Hill, the most northerly colony. Can you spot the penguins?

The mark left by the hail storm can even be seen from space by satellites. www.iflscience.com/supercell-st...

New York City’s Manhattan Island was the site of the nation’s first Labor Day parade on September 5, 1882. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15473...

An asteroid that struck the rainforest in Africa around 1 million years ago created Ghana’s only natural lake. Now artisanal gold mining and urbanization are eating away at the forest around Lake Bosumtwi. Landsat images 2015 (left) and 2024 (right). ⬇️ earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15473...

Forests play a key role in filtering the waters of the Quabbin Reservoir in central Massachusetts. The reservoir provides water to Boston and is home to submerged towns and nesting bald eagles but NOT endangered timber rattlesnakes. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15460... #Quabbin 🐍

Sprawling Gifford Fire Scorches California earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15465...

Unfortunate that these outlets don’t bother to link to the original story or note that it was published in October 2023. www.ecoticias.com/en/nasa-spot... orbitaltoday.com/2025/07/16/n...

When snow falls on the Chajnantor Plateau in the Atacama Desert, it doesn’t typically last for long. The plateau faces some of the most intense surface irradiance on the planet. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15456... #chile

On June 30, 1908, an incoming fireball exploded kilometers above Earth’s surface, scorching and toppling large numbers of trees. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15448... #tunguska

Drop-dead gorgeous figures showing Hadley circulation patterns & cloud trends by Michala Garrison, NASA Earth Observatory. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15444... #dataviz 📊🗺️

On June 19, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger issued General Order No. 3. Union troops marched through Galveston and read the order aloud at several locations, including Union Army headquarters at the Osterman building. www.naturalhazards.nasa.gov/images/14845... #Juneteenth

This is not actually a subtweet of anything specific right now, but I do want to make a plea to everyone to a) attribute and link to the source of any information you're sharing b) only share posts that do so. This isn't (just) about credit, it's about creating a chain of custody for information.

Great NASA EO piece today: earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15444...

Earth’s clouds are on the move. Marine storm cloud zones have shifted poleward and narrowed in recent decades. The changes are contributing to our planet’s growing energy imbalance. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15444...

Field of Soy Dreams in #Illinois. The state has flat land, fertile soils, and the nation’s largest soybean harvest. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15441... Hbvb

There’s so much burning in #Canada, it inadvertently became wildfire week at NASA Earth Observatory. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/event...

Thousands of soldiers killed during World War II are interred at the Manila American Cemetery, the largest overseas U.S. military cemetery. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15433...

An impact crater hiding in plain sight. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15433... #Australia #geology

Boston Harbor is sprinkled with dozens of grass mounds, peeping out of the water like half-buried eggs. Don’t be fooled by these innocuous-looking islets, these are no ordinary islands: they are sunken drumlins. 🧪 www.iflscience.com/boston-harbo...

Warm temperatures and spring rains unleashed a surge of water that inundated homes and displaced hundreds of people in northern Kazakhstan 🧪

Since it re-awoke in December 2024, Hawaii’s Kīlauea volcano has been spewing fountains of lava with remarkable frequency. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15427... www.mirovaweb.it?action=volca...

We wrote about this dataset on the NASA Earth Observatory way back in 2005. What a loss.

For decades, this iconic graph has provided clear observational evidence of one of the key indicators of global climate change - Arctic sea ice loss. It’s from the NSIDC "Sea Ice Index" Now, support of this crucial data is at risk. A visual lens to our changing poles (zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...).

Texas '...at the end of April, we have had 28 days of dust storms; for comparison, over the past quarter century, the average for an entire year is 22 days. You would have to go back to 1936—during the Dust Bowl—to find a year with more.' klaq.com/el-paso-dust...

"A morass of airborne grit," writes the Gizmodo guy, in "El Paso Is Having Its Dustiest Year Since the Actual Dust Bowl." That's about right. gizmodo.com/el-paso-is-h...

Lingering floodwaters are destroying crops and forcing costly rounds of replanting for many Arkansas farmers. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15424...

El Paso and the Borderplex region are experiencing one of their dustiest seasons since the 1930s Dust Bowl. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15423... with @landsat.bsky.social imagery by @mapsbyw.com and commentary from @tomgillpredicts.bsky.social & @sangasso.bsky.social

The intense fire burning in the New Jersey Pine Barrens is among the largest the state has seen in decades. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15421... 🛰️ Images by @mapsbyw.com using #Landsat data.

Boston Harbor Islands National and State Park: The park’s 34 islands and peninsulas support a range of ecosystems, including salt marshes, sandy beaches, seagrass beds, tidal pools, mudflats, grasslands, and hardwood forests 🧪

Large wildfires in South Korea. Images taken by Landsat-8/9 on March 26, 2025. Visible light and SWIR.

Tornadoes scar the landscape after storms ripped through Mississippi. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15409...

About 600 million years ago, an asteroid blazed through the sky and smashed into land or shallow waters around Davenport Range, northern Australia. While much of the original impact crater has eroded, telltale signs of the collision remain imprinted. 🧪

For much of February and March of 2025, multiple NASA satellites observed a bloom that drifted across the Gulf of Oman and into the Arabian Sea Blooms typically occur in the winter/early spring and summer, when water temperatures, light conditions, and nutrient availability are favorable 🧪

In and around China's Yellow River delta the land is carved up into rectangles. Lots of them. Really, I wouldn't want to count them all. There are other shapes too, but it's mostly rectangles. There are still more on display in this much larger image. drive.google.com/file/d/1iCp1... #Landsat8

A satellite view of cloud vortices and icebergs swirling past the South Sandwich Islands. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15404... 🛰️

A major weather system spawned wind-fueled fires and dust storms in #Texas and #Oklahoma before moving east. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15405...

Some of the new images of the #Earth and #Moon coming back from the @firefly-aerospace.bsky.social Blue Ghost lunar lander are so freaking cool. Really puts things in perspective. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15403...

🧪🛰️ The folks at NASA's Earth Observatory asked me a few questions about the recent dust storms in the south and posted the note here . earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15401... @avoiland.bsky.social @aerosolwatch.bsky.social

Look out, lakes on the Tibetan Plateau are multiplying faster than rabbits. 🐇 This is satellite imagery of the same part of the plateau in 1994 (left) and 2024 (right). 🛰️ Full story: earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/15401...

Hi - I'd like to share this story of what is happening at NOAA GFDL, where some of my colleagues and I worked until the mass firings at NOAA last week. "...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"

Excellent writeup of our recent #Alaska Kachemak Bay work that ties together everything from glaciers to fish. Thanks Adam - we all really appreciate this. Stellar example of how science journalism can turn dense papers on niche subjects into engaging "bigger picture" stories.

NEW: Asteroid 2024 YR4 may threaten Earth. It won't be the last. But, there's good news: we're about to get two new anti-asteroid weapons. For @theatlantic.com, I wrote about Vera Rubin Observatory and NEO Surveyor—and how both will make the world safer. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...