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Earth from Space: Ganges Delta

Earth from Space: Ganges Delta.

The Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission takes us over the Ganges Delta - the world's largest river delta.

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The Southern Coast Of Bangladesh As Viewed From Orbit

Southern Coast Of Bangladesh

The International Space Station was orbiting above the southern coast of Bangladesh, near the vast mangrove forest and wildlife habitat of India's Sundarban National Park, when this photograph was taken.

NASA Supercomputing Study Breaks Ground For Tree Mapping And Carbon Research

Scientists from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and international collaborators demonstrated a new method for mapping the location and size of trees growing outside of forests

Earth from Space: Zeeland, Netherlands

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Zeeland - the westernmost province in the Netherlands.

A Virtual Training Series Begins on Remote Sensing for Tribal Lands

NASA's Indigenous Peoples Pilot is holding an 8-part virtual training series as an introduction on how to use NASA data on tribal lands. The live webinars include lectures and hands-on demonstrations.

Earth from Space: Laguna San Rafael National Park, Chile

Part of the Laguna San Rafael National Park, located on the Pacific coast of southern Chile, is pictured in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.

Earth from Space: New York City

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over New York City - the most populous city in the United States.

Earth from Space: Tarawa, Kiribati

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Tarawa Atoll in the Republic of Kiribati - a remote Pacific nation threatened by rising seas.

Nighttime Orbital View Of Post-Tropical Storm Teddy

NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided an infrared image of Post-tropical cyclone Teddy over the province of Newfoundland, Canada in the early morning hours of Sept. 24.

Earth from Space: Vatnajökull, Iceland

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Vatnajökull ice cap, in southeast Iceland, in this summery image captured on 6 July 2019.

NASA Takes Flight to Study California's Wildfire Burn Areas

While the agency's satellites image the wildfires from space, scientists are flying over burn areas, using smoke-penetrating technology to better understand the damage.

Orbital View: Smoke From Fires Stretching Across the Country

NOAA/NASA's Suomi NPP satellite captured two recent images of the United States and both images show that the winds have changed yet again, blowing the smoke from western fires back to the East and crossing the continental U.S.

Earth from Space: The Amazon River

This image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission, shows the Amazon River meandering through one of the most vital ecosystems in the world - the Amazon rainforest in South America.

Suomi NPP Captures Fires and Aerosols Across America

On Sep. 07, 2020, NOAA/NASA's Suomi NPP satellite provided two different views of how fires are affecting the U.S. A true-color image of the United States appears on the left side.

Ice Sheet Melt On Track With Worst-case Climate Scenario

A recent report confirms that ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, whose mass-loss rates have been rapidly increasing, are matching the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's worst-case sea-level rise scenarios.

Sea Level Mission Will Also Act as a Precision Thermometer in Space

To get the best measurements of Earth's atmosphere, you sometimes have to leave it. This November, the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich spacecraft will do just that.

Earth from Space - Gulf of Kutch, India

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Gulf of Kutch - also known as the Gulf of Kachchh - an inlet of the Arabian Sea, along the west coast of India.

Suomi NPP Satellite Provides a Nighttime View of New Atlantic Tropical Depression

NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided a nighttime view of the Atlantic Ocean hurricane season's latest tropical cyclone off the coast of North Carolina. Ocean swells from the depression are affecting coastal North Carolina today, Sept. 1.