More than a year after first detecting methane plumes from its perch aboard the International Space Station, data from NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) instrument is now being used to identify point-source emissions of greenhouse gases with a proficiency that has surprised even its designers.
One of the world’s most active volcanoes, Mount Etna, erupted on Nov. 12, 2023, spewing lava and clouds of ash high over the Mediterranean island of Sicily.
This map shows the size and shape of the ozone hole over the South Pole on Sept. 21, 2023, the day of its maximum extent, as calculated by the NASA Ozone Watch team.
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo, the largest natural body of water in South America.
Like shining jewels in the water, ships passing through the Panama Canal, which cuts across Central America, have been captured in this Copernicus Sentinel-1 image.
Maps show sea levels in the Pacific Ocean during early October of 1997, 2015 and 2023, in the run up to El Niño events.
Parts of the New York City metropolitan area are sinking and rising at different rates due to factors ranging from land-use practices to long-lost glaciers, scientists have found.
The heart of the Nueva Vizcaya Province on Luzon, the largest and most populated island of the Philippines, shows up brightly in this Copernicus Sentinel-2 false-color image.
Summer 2023 was Earth’s hottest since global records began in 1880, according to scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) in New York.
San Miguel, El Salvador, captured from the International Space Station on Sept. 16, 2023, by ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen during his Huginn Mission.
