Smoke from fires in Georgia and Florida streamed eastward over the Atlantic Ocean on June 15, 2011. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor on NASA's Aqua satellite captured this natural-color image the same day.
Aqua Satellite Captures Massive Arizona Wildfires
The Wallow Fire was started by human activity on May 29, and the wind-fueled inferno has become the second-largest fire in Arizona history. By the end of the day on June 9, the massive fire had reached 386,690 acres (609 square miles or 157,701 hectares) and had burned 29 and threatened 5,242 homes.
Tornado's Giant Scar Visible From Space
This Landsat 5 satellite image clearly reveals the 63-kilometer long trail of destruction caused by a rare Massachusetts tornado on June 1.
Iceland's GrÃmsvötnVolcano Erupts
A year after Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano spewed ash and steam miles into the air and disrupted global air traffic for days, NASA's Terra satellite captures another Iceland volcano rumbling to life.
Onekotan Island, Kuril Islands, Russian Federation
Snow cover highlights the calderas and volcanic cones that form the northern and southern ends of Onekotan Island, part of the Russian Federation in the western Pacific Ocean. Calderas are depressions formed when a volcano emptiesits magma chamber in an explosive...
Tassili n'Ajjer National Park
Tassili n’Ajjer National Park covers 72,000 square kilometers (27,800 square miles) in southeastern Algeria. Part of the Sahara Desert, the park has a bone-dry climate with scant rainfall, yet does not blend in with Saharan dunes. Instead, the rocky plateau rises...
Onekotan Island, Kuril Islands, Russian Federation
Snow cover highlights the calderas and volcanic cones that form the northern and southern ends of Onekotan Island, part of the Russian Federation in the western Pacific Ocean. Calderas are depressions formed when a volcano emptiesits magma chamber in an explosive...
Caribbean Lux
Caribbean Lux - April 24th, 2003 The Caicos Islands  in the northern Caribbean are a popular tourist attraction, renowned for their beautiful beaches, clear waters, scuba diving, and luxury resorts. The islands lie primarily along the northern perimeter of the...
Ice Fall
Like distant galaxies amid clouds of interstellar dust, chunks of sea ice drift through graceful swirls of grease ice in the frigid waters of Foxe Basin near Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic. Sea ice often begins as grease ice, a soupy slick of tiny ice crystals...
Dash E Kev
October 1st, 2000 The Dasht-e Kevir, or Great Salt Desert, is the largest desert in Iran. It is a primarily uninhabited wasteland, composed of mud and salt marshes covered with crusts of salt that protect the meager moisture from completely evaporating.
