This natural-color image was acquired by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite on Oct. 18, 2020.

Within 10 days, the East Troublesome fire had burned through more than 190,000 acres (77,000 hectares) and had become Colorado's second largest fire (by area) on record. As of Oct. 26, 2020, it was 15 percent contained.

The second qualification model of the P120C solid rocket motor, configured for Ariane 6, completed its hot firing on Oct. 7, 2020, in a final test to prove its readiness for flight.

The August Complex Fire and others this fire season have been sending far-reaching plumes of wildfire smoke into the atmosphere that worsen air quality in California and beyond. Predicting where that smoke will travel and how bad the air will be downwind is a challenge, but Earth-observing satellites can help.

This series of four Copernicus Sentinel-2 images captured between June 29, 2020, and July 24, 2020, shows a segment of the largest ice shelf in the Arctic break up and shatter into a flotilla of small icebergs totalling an area of around 125 square kilometers.

The large, white area visible on the island is a national park that encompasses the Vatnajökull Glacier.

The many colorful curves and folds of the Flinders Ranges”the largest mountain range in South Australia”are featured in this false-color image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.

NASA's Ecosystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) captured a birds-eye view of the vast Apple fire raging in Southern California.

Utah's Great Salt Lake and its surroundings are featured in this false-color image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.

NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite showed the blanket of dust had moved over the Gulf of Mexico and extended into Central America and over part of the eastern Pacific Ocean.