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Scouting Watering Holes from Space
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Published July 1, 2020
Satellites may make it easier for nomadic herders in Senegal to survive the lean season.
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A Dust Plume to Remember
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Published June 29, 2020
While dust routinely blows across the Atlantic Ocean, scientists rarely see plumes as large and dense with particles as the one that darkened Caribbean skies in June 2020.
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Johns Hopkins Glacier
While most glaciers in southeast Alaska are losing an astounding amount of ice, this glacier has been relatively stable.
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Channeling a Bloom
Published June 26, 2020
Unusually clear skies and persistent, unseasonable heat may have set the stage for a large and persistent blooms of phytoplankton in the waters around England.
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Space Station Sails Across the Sun
A NASA photographer captured the ISS as it passed directly between the Sun and Earth.
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Ankara at Night
Bright shades of white and yellow light up the geographic and political heart of Turkey.
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Signs of Drought in European Groundwater
Published June 25, 2020
Long-term rainfall deficits, heat waves, and increased evaporation have depleted some of the groundwater supply beneath central and eastern Europe.
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Contrasting Landscape in Namibia
Published June 24, 2020
The town of Mariental sits at the convergence of the Kalahari Desert and the Central Plateau.
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Heat and Fire Scorches Siberia
Published June 23, 2020
Fires are raging in eastern Siberia in the midst of an unusually long-lived heat wave.
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An Astronaut’s View of an Annular Eclipse
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station shot a photograph of the Moon’s shadow crossing the Earth on June 21, 2020.
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Volcanic Emissions Can Change Clouds
Published June 19, 2020
The volcanoes of the remote South Sandwich Islands make an ideal natural laboratory for studying how airborne particles alter clouds.
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Dust Traverses the Atlantic Ocean
A tremendous plume of dust from North Africa drifts toward the Caribbean and contiguous United States.
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Mogadishu, Somalia
An array of sandy colors paint the landscape around the capital and port city.
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Lonar Lake Tries On a Rosy Color
Published June 18, 2020
The lake in west-central India promptly changed from green to pink, and the reason why remains a mystery.
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Southeastern Australia Turns Green
After two years of severe drought, abundant rain finally fell over the Australian state and turned the landscape green.
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Bush Fire Scorches Lands Near Phoenix
Published June 16, 2020
The blaze is the largest in Arizona this year and the largest in the United States right now.
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