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The Ups and Downs of Crater Lake
Published July 26, 2019
Elevation data show the distinct topography of Mount Mazama and the crater lake that fills its caldera.
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A Second Scorching Heatwave in Europe
One month after experiencing record-breaking temperatures, Europe again is sweltering under a heatwave. And this one is more intense.
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Water Cycle is Speeding Up Over Much of the U.S.
Published July 25, 2019
Scientists have developed a new way to measure water cycle intensity over time.
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Cloudy Sulawesi
Published July 24, 2019
The International Space Station was crossing over the equator when an astronaut looked east and took this photo just after a sunrise.
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Ubinas Volcano Erupts
Ash from Peru’s most active volcano fell on villages, schools, and health centers.
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Measuring Movement from the Ridgecrest Quake
Published July 23, 2019
Remote sensing scientists are getting better at measuring such events and showing how they disrupt and move the land surface.
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Hammerhead Horsts on the Makran Coast
Striking geology, new ports, and a few hammerhead sharks can be found along Pakistan’s Arabian Sea coast.
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Wildfire Smoke Swirls Over Russia
Published July 22, 2019
Winds carried smoke from wildfires burning in Russia, degrading air quality in some populous cities.
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Study Projects Troubles for 1700 Vertebrate Species
Published July 19, 2019
Researchers examined how human land use will affect species habitats around the world.
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Same Islands, Two Views
These two images of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, taken from different directions, give a sense of the astronaut flight experience.
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An Eagle Takes Off for Home
When the Apollo 11 astronauts left the surface of the Moon on July 21, 1969, they brought home samples of solar wind particles, lunar rocks and dirt, and a big helping of perspective.
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A New Patch of Green in Brazil
A twenty-year effort to plant millions of trees in Minas Gerais is visible to Landsat.
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Lava Lake Discovered on Mount Michael
Published July 18, 2019
Scientists confirmed a stable pond of lava exists within the crater, raising the planet’s known number of lava lakes to seven.
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Monsoon Rains Flood South Asia
Published July 17, 2019
At least seven million people in India, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Pakistan have been displaced or had their lives disrupted by flooding in July 2019.
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Green Space is Good for Mental Health
Published July 15, 2019
New study uses satellite and demographic data to show how the prolonged presence of green space is important for a healthy society.
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Wildfires in Krasnoyarsk
Published July 12, 2019
Dozens of fires raged in the southern part of the Siberian region.
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Kolyma’s Annual Purge
Every June, the Kolyma River thaws and carries organic materials that stain the Arctic Ocean.
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Iceland’s Waters Abloom
July 2019 brought the latest display of a phytoplankton bloom that occurs every year in the North Atlantic Ocean.
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Florida’s Rocks and Rocketeers
Most of the state’s land surface overlies thick limestone deposits that have been transformed into a distinct aquifer system.
Another Fire in Greenland
Published July 11, 2019
Nearly two years after a rare wildfire in western Greenland, satellites spotted new smoke plumes streaming from the same region.
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Citizen Scientists Find Undocumented Landslides
Published July 10, 2019
A new NASA project improves landslide inventories with data from the public.
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Historic Heat in Alaska
Published July 9, 2019
Record-breaking heat has exacerbated clusters of wildfires burning throughout the state.
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Smoke Spreads Across Ontario
Published July 8, 2019
Smoke from fires burning along the Ontario border dipped south into the United States.
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Scientists Discover the Biggest Seaweed Bloom in the World
The record-breaking belt of brown algae stretches from West Africa to the Gulf of Mexico, and it is likely here to stay.
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Atmospheric River Swells Terrestrial Rivers
Published July 5, 2019
In late June 2019, a potent atmospheric river event carried soaking rain into southern Chile, dropping nearly a month’s worth of precipitation in just 48 hours.
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Long View of the Mississippi River Delta
The river drains water and sediment from 31 U.S. states, delivering both to the Gulf of Mexico via the Atchafalaya and Mississippi River deltas.
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Brunt Ice Shelf Survives the Solstice
Published July 3, 2019
The enormous slab of ice poised to break away from the Brunt ice shelf is still hanging on.
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Finding Hidden Ship Tracks
Ship tracks are a common atmospheric occurrence. Scientists are now combining machine learning and satellites to detect them automatically.
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Total Solar Eclipse Darkens the South Pacific
On July 2, 2019, a NASA satellite captured an image of the Moon’s shadow off of South America.
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The Sea Takes Back a Baby Island
A tiny island birthed by an earthquake and a mud volcano has faded into the sea.
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A Longer Dry Season in the Congo Rainforest
Published July 2, 2019
The summer dry season has lengthened by about 10 days per decade within rainforest boundaries.
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Mapping the Land Between the Tides
Published July 1, 2019
Harnessing 30 years of Landsat data, researchers have created the first three-dimensional model of Australia’s entire coastline.
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