The accompanying image shows the clay pits northwest of St Austell and was acquired by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) aboard the Terra satellite.
Webb Liftoff on Ariane 5
The James Webb Space Telescope lifted off on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on Dec. 25, 2021, on its exciting mission to unlock the secrets of the universe.
La Niña Returns for a Second Winter
For the second year in a row, the cooler sister to El Niño showed up at the winter party in the Eastern Pacific.
Eclipse Over Antarctica
This image of our home planet shows how Earth looked from more than 950,000 miles, or 1.5 million kilometers, away during the total solar eclipse visible in Antarctica on Dec. 4, 2021.
A Seasonal Emerald in the Sahel
Depending on the abundance and timing of rainfall upstream, the inland delta of the Niger River in Mali typically floods with water from roughly August to December.
Kainji Lake
Kainji Lake, a reservoir on the Niger River in western Nigeria, is featured in this true-color image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.
Burst of New Evidence for Viking Travels
Since the 1960s, archaeologists have been gathering physical evidence that Norse people landed and settled for at least a few years in far northern Newfoundland, Canada, long before Columbus sailed to the Americas.
Particles From the Sun Produce Light Show on Earth
The aurora borealis glows on the northern horizon while stars wheel overhead in this long exposure taken near the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah on Nov. 4, 2021.
Topographic Lidar Data Employed to Map, Preserve U.S. History
In August 2015, the National Park Service (NPS) contracted Woolpert for the Little Bighorn National Monument Mapping Project to record the locations of thousands of headstone markers at the Custer National Cemetery as well as hundreds of battlefield markers at the Little Bighorn National Monument site, which covers approximately 5.5 square miles.
Fire-Detection Satellite BIROS Releases BEESAT-4 Picosatellite
On Sept. 9, 2016, the Bi-Spectral Infrared Optical System (BIROS) fire-detection satellite, developed and built by the German Aerospace Center (DLR), released the Berlin Educational and Experimental Picosatellite (BEESAT-4) into space 515 kilometers above the Norwegian Svalbard archipelago.
