Tag: Earth Observatory
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World Cup Fever in Guadalajara
The city’s metro area has pushed westward since it last hosted World Cup matches in 1986, expanding across a landscape shaped by ancient volcanoes.
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Air Pollution’s Daily Pulse Over the Northeast
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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Tyndall’s Trail of Bergs
Ice splintered off the southern Patagonia glacier and drifted across a growing glacial lake.
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June 2026 Satellite Puzzler
Your challenge is to tell us the location of the satellite image and why it is interesting.
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San Francisco’s Metropolitan Mosaic
Urban development, green spaces, and maritime activity converge in this Northern California city.
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Digging Back in Time in the UAE
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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Fighting Fire With Fire
In fire-prone ecosystems in Australia’s Northern Territory, prescribed burns are lit to minimize the severity of fires later in the season.
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A Moonlit Earth as Seen From Artemis II
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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Typhoon Jangmi
The sprawling storm promised to deliver torrential rain across a wide swath of southern Japan.
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Fire’s Footprint on Santa Rosa Island
A wildland fire charred grassland, coastal sage scrub, and chaparral across one-third of the island, the second largest of the Channel Islands.