Real satellite imagery from NASA’s Terra, Aqua and Landsat missions takes the shape of whales and swirling clouds in the agency’s Earth Day 2024 poster, “Water Touches Everything.” 

An aerosol forecast from the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) on April 23, 2024, shows a thick plume of Saharan dust blowing off the desert toward Libya, the Mediterranean Sea and Greece.

This spectacular image showing the Moon’s shadow on Earth’s surface was acquired during a 20-second period on April 8, 2024, by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. 

The Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission collected this image over northern Brazil, where the Amazon River meets the Atlantic Ocean. 

These colorful ribbons of light are the visible manifestation of the solar wind—the flow of charged particles from the Sun—interacting with the Earth’s magnetosphere.

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image features the ice tongue of the Dawson-Lambton Glacier in Antarctica, which lies southwest of the Brunt Ice Shelf in the Weddell Sea sector of the continent.

Before and after satellite images from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission show the scale of the oil spill that occurred off the shores of Trinidad and Tobago’s coastline in February 2024.

This false-color image acquired by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission shows the city of Dubai and its surroundings in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

To honor Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Jan. 15, 2024, NASA published this image of Simsbury, Conn., where Dr. King and other students from Morehouse College worked summers on a tobacco farm, Meadowood, in 1944 and 1947 to earn money for tuition.

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image, captured in September 2023, features the crescent-shaped Venetian lagoon and the islands that make up the Italian floating city of Venice.