Within two days, the Compact Ocean Wind Vector Radiometer (COWVR) and Temporal Experiment for Storms and Tropical Systems (TEMPEST) instruments had gathered enough data to begin producing maps.
Learning How Ocean Water Melts Glaciers
To learn how ocean water is melting glaciers, NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland mission extensively surveyed the coastline of the world's largest island.
Kangerlussuaq Glacier False-Color Image
The Kangerlussuaq Glacier, one of Greenland's largest tidewater outlet glaciers, is pictured in this false-color image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission.
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.
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.
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.
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.
An Aurora Seen From Space
In this image taken on Oct. 30, 2021, an aurora dimly intersected with Earth's airglow as the International Space Station flew into an orbital sunrise 264 miles above the Pacific Ocean before crossing over Canada.
Dubai Distributed
This collage of pictures shows Dubai, United Arab Emirates, made from around 40 pictures mapped together, digitally rotated and assembled into this large collage.
La Palma Lava Flows Into the Sea
This image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission on Sept. 30, 2021, shows the flow of lava from the volcano erupting on the Spanish island of La Palma.