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Swirls along an Ice Highway

Following the Trail

Thinning at Hektoria and Green Glaciers

Haze over Eastern China

Fresh Lava on Kilauea, Hawaii

Mount Shasta, California

Wildfires in Australia

Dust Storm in the Great Plains

A Growing Rift in Antarctic Ice

Central Asia’s Water Tower

Finding Fossils in the Great Divide Basin

Flooding in Nigeria

Wake Island, Pacific Ocean

Grande Terre

Turkish Glaciers

Spare Weather Satellite Proves Its Worth

Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches New Maximum Extent

Auroras over North America

Ash Plume from Shiveluch

Salar de Coipasa, Bolivia

Cheyenne Bottoms in Drought

Icebergs around South Georgia Island

Flooding along the Susitna River

From Green to Brown

Dried Out Vegetation Across America

Clouds, Fire, and Ice in the Cascades

Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge

Idaho Fires, September 2012

Typhoon Jelawat

Storms Approaching

Visualizing the 2012 Sea Ice Minimum

Deforestation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

A Bloom in the Barents Sea

Pyramids at Giza, Egypt

Oregon Rain Shadow

Flooding in Pakistan

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Swirls along an Ice Highway

Thin sea ice swirled along the east coast of Greenland in October 2012, against a backdrop of overall thinning sea ice. Read more

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Hunting Fossils from Afar

October 16, 2012

Paleontologists use Landsat images and an artificial intelligence to identify sites likely to yield fossils. Read more

The Gravity of Water

September 12, 2012

Scientists are using novel measurements of gravity to gather indispensable information about Earth’s water supplies. The GRACE mission can see water flowing underground. Read more

Notes from the Field Blog: Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study (SPURS)

August 28, 2012

A group of scientists are headed to the saltiest spot in the North Atlantic Ocean. They will spend six weeks at sea studying what's driving changes in the salt content of the ocean and how these variations relate to an acceleration of the global water cycle and climate change. Read more

Greatest Hits from Landsat

July 31, 2012

Landsat 1 was launched in July 1972, starting the longest continuous observation of Earth's land surfaces from space. Here are some of the memorable scientific and societal contributions from the 40-year-old program. Read more

Landsat Looks and Sees

July 23, 2012

The world’s longest-running Earth-observing satellite program has collected more than three million images, showing two generations of planetary evolution and of human imprints on Earth. The Landsat archives tell an unparalleled story of our land surfaces. Read more

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