Maharloo Lake, a seasonal salt lake in Iran, is featured in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. Maharloo sits at an altitude of around 1,400 meters above sea level and is located around 27 kilometers southeast of Shiraz, in southwest Iran.
Dutch Zuiderzee Works
The Netherlands has long been shaped by floods and by efforts to hold back the sea.
Vega Soars to Space
On Aug. 16, 2021, Vega lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on flight VV19 to deliver into two separate Sun-synchronous orbits the Earth observation satellite Pléiades Neo-4 and four auxiliary payloads: SunStorm, RadCube and LEDSAT developed through...
Russia's Forests Store More Carbon Than Previously Thought
Russia has the largest area of forest on the planet, with more than a fifth of the world’s trees. A new study, led by Russian scientists using data from ESA’s Climate Change Initiative, produced new estimates of biomass contained in Russian forests, and confirms...
Beauty in the Barents
During the spring and summer in the Barents Sea, north of Norway and Russia, phytoplankton show up in abundance. Clouds permitting, the showy displays of these blue and green “blooms†are visible in satellite images just about every year. Yet no two phytoplankton...
Gulf of Martaban
The Gulf of Martaban, an arm of the Andaman Sea located in southern Myanmar, is featured in this false-color image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.
Lake Mar Chiquita
Lake Mar Chiquita, approximately 70 kilometers long and 24 kilometers wide, is fed primarily by the Primero and Segundo rivers from the southwest and from the Dulce river from the north.
A Partial Solar Eclipse
A partial solar eclipse is seen as the sun rises behind the U.S. Capitol Building, Thursday, June 10, 2021, as seen from Arlington, Va. The annular or “ring of fire†solar eclipse is only completely visible in Greenland, Northern Russia and Canada. Image Credit:...
Iceberg Loses Title of Biggest
On May 26, 2021, iceberg A-76 lost two big chunks of ice (now A-76B and A-76C) and, with them, the title of biggest iceberg on Earth.
Qeshm Island, Iran
Qeshm Island”the largest island in Iran”lies in the Strait of Hormuz, parallel to the Iranian coast from which it's separated by the Clarence Strait (Khuran).