Hurricane Adrian
Hurricane Adrian is a Category 3 hurricane with sustained winds of 115 knots off the west coast of Mexico, view from US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) GOES satellite.
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Endeavour ready on Launch Pad
The Space Shuttle Endeavour stands ready on Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre, Florida.
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Greece from space
Greece with Peloponisos, Aegean sea and the beautiful islands, from space.
Tassili n’Ajjer National Park
Tassili n’Ajjer National Park covers 72,000 square kilometers (27,800 square miles) in southeastern Algeria. Part of the Sahara Desert, the park has a bone-dry climate with scant rainfall, yet does not blend in with Saharan dunes.
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Large fires in Northern Mexico
These images, taken by the Landsat-5 satellite on April 9, 2011, illustrate the challenges facing firefighters combating two large wildfires in northern Mexico’s Coahuila state. The fires are burning on steep mountain slopes that are difficult to impossible for ground crews to reach. Image created by Jesse Allen, using Landsat 5 data provided by the United States Geological Survey.
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Brunt Ice Shelf
This Envisat image features the Brunt Ice Shelf lying against the Weddell Sea on the coast of northern Coats Land in Antarctica. image ESA
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First Space Fueling Station
When a satellite runs out of fuel, there are really only a couple options: Quietly become a piece of space junk, or fall back to Earth in a blaze of glory. But a new space gas station will fill ‘em up, ensuring satellites can keep on trucking and preventing the proliferation of orbiting garbage.
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Meandering Mississippi
The Mississippi River—North America‘s largest—unfurls like a teal ribbon through towns, fields, and pastures on the Arkansas-Mississippi border in a 2003 satellite picture. Overall, the Earth as Art collections provide “fresh and inspiring glimpses of different parts of our planet’s complex surface,” according to the USGS. Image courtesy EROS/USGS/NASA
4,500-mile Atlantic Ocean journey of tiny turtles
Researchers tagged some of the smallest and youngest ever baby turtles (younger than six months old) to be tracked revealing the epic 4,500 mile, 70-day journey in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Sea ice surrounds Shikotan volcanic island
Ostrov Shikotan (or Shikotan-to) is a volcanic island at the southern end of the Kuril chain. At about 43 degrees North—more than halfway to the Equator—Shikotan lies along the extreme southern edge of winter sea ice in the Northern Hemisphere.
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