Lunar Eclipse over Wyoming
Monday morning just before a fully lit Strawberry Moon dropped behind the Absaroka Mountain Range near Cody, Wyoming, USA, the shadow of the Earth got in the way. Image credit: Mack H. Frost
Happy World Oceans Day
World Oceans Day on Friday, June 8th, an event aimed at celebrating the ocean and raising awareness about the need to protect ocean health. Image credit: One World Ocean
Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes: 100th anniversary of Katmai Eruption
One hundred years ago today, the greatest volcanic eruption of the 20th Century occurred at Mount Katmai, Alaska. Mount Katmai, one of a chain of volcanoes in the upper Alaska Peninsula, erupted through a vent 6 mi (10 km) from its summit, releasing 30 times the amount of magma that erupted from Mount St. Helens in 1980. Photographer and author: Bill Burton USGS
56 years of Tornados on a map
This map shows every tornado in the United States, assembled from 56 years of NOAA data. via World Shaker
A Tribute to Hubble and the Human Race
A video compilation featuring images from the Hubble Space Telescope, to celebrate how it has opened the portal of the universe to humanity, and how the astonishing images it has captured represent, literally and metaphorically, that humanity’s birthplace.
Greenland in White, Brown and Blue
In the image you can see a meltwater pond nestled amid the rock-and-ice covered fringe of Greenland. Most of the surface of Greenland is covered with fresh water—about 2.6 million cubic kilometers of it. Yet that water is frozen, locked up in ice and snow. NASA Photograph by Jim Yungel, NASA Wallops Flight Facility
British Isles are seen under clear skies
A rare phenomenon, the British Isles are seen under clear skies in this satellite image, on Saturday 26 May. Image credit: the University of Dundee
Sunglint and Clouds
The setting sun highlights cloud patterns—as well as the Pacific Ocean surface itself—in this photograph taken by an astronaut on the International Space Station. The ISS was located over the Andes Mountains of central Chile at the time.
What does earthquake magnitude mean?
An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth’s crust that creates seismic waves. It is one of most powerful and most disastrous forces in nature. This animation compares the “sizes” of recent years historical earthquakes.
Sentinels of the Arctic
This picture was taken last winter in Finnish Lapland where weather can include sub-freezing temperatures and driving snow. These giant trees covered in snow and ice, are possibly the guardians of the North. Surreal landscapes sometimes result, where common trees become cloaked in white. Image Credit: Niccolò Bonfadini via apod
