Snow-Covered Desert are rare, but that’s exactly what’s happening at the Taklimakan Desert in western China. An observation by Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on
2012 was an extraordinary year for wildfires in the United States. According to records maintained by the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) and NASA, show
Swirls along an ice highway in the sea water off the east coast of Greenland, observed by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s
The MODIS instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite captured this visible image of Sea Ice off eastern Greenland on October 16, 2012. Image credit: NASA/GSFC/Jeff Schmaltz/MODIS
Typhoon Jelawat in Japan, left approximately 145 people with minor injuries with the hardest hit area around Okinawa. The typhoon produces strong winds and left
In mid-August 2012, an intense wildfire broke out on island of Chios, in Aegean sea, Greece, sending a thick plume of smoke southward toward the
An unusually strong storm formed off the coast of Alaska on August 5 and tracked into the center of the Arctic Ocean, where it slowly
An iceberg, or ice island, twice the size of Manhattan has broken away from the Petermann Glacier in northern Greenland. Images from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
A layer of stratocumulus clouds over the Pacific Ocean, in this image from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired on June
An enormous oval hole, several hundred miles across, in the clouds above the southern Pacific Ocean, acquired by NASA’s Aqua satellite on June 5, approximately 500
