Airborne Radar Looking Through Thick Ice

The bedrock hidden beneath the thick ice sheets covering Greenland and Antarctica has intrigued researchers for years.

Earth from Space: Aorounga, Chad

This image from Japan's ALOS satellite shows the Aorounga Crater in northern Chad. The crater is just south of the Tibesti Mountains, a range of inactive - with some potentially active - volcanoes in the central Sahara desert.

Qarhan Salt Lake As Seen From Orbit

This false-colour composite image from the Kompsat-2 satellite shows part of the Qarhan Salt Lake on the Tibetan Plateau in China.

Changing of the Guard at Concordia, Antarctica

The journey to the Concordia research base in Antarctica is never predictable. Delays due to weather can keep travellers at the stopover points for days.

American Cities and Roads At Night As Seen From Space

Thanksgiving is a time for family, for feasting, and for gratitude in the United States. It is also a time when the nation's transportation network is clogged with travelers.

Carbon Dioxide Could Warm Earth for Centuries

Even if carbon dioxide emissions came to a sudden halt, the carbon dioxide already in Earth's atmosphere could continue to warm our planet for hundreds of years, according to Princeton University-led research published in the journal Nature Climate Change.

Galapagos Islands As Seen From Orbit

One of the Expedition 38 crew members aboard the ISS used a 180mm lens to photograph this oblique image featuring the Galapagos Islands or Islas Galapagos, distributed on either side of the Equator in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

Hottest place on Earth: Dasht-e Lut Salt Desert

The Dasht-e Lut salt desert in southeast Iran is captured in this Envisat image.

Giant Iceberg and Pine Island Glacier Seen From Space

This MODIS image taken by NASA's Aqua satellite on Nov. 10, 2013, shows an iceberg that was part of the Pine Island Glacier and is now separating from the Antarctica continent.

Cyclone 03A Makes Landfall in Somalia

Tropical Cyclone 03A made landfall in Somalia and moved inland where it is dissipating over eastern Ethiopia today, Nov. 12. NASA's Aqua, Terra and TRMM satellites passed over the cyclone an captured images of 03A before and after it made landfall.

South Pole Station Settles into Operational Mode

Elbow room. It's not something one would think to be lacking at South Pole - a location so remote that the first polar explorers only visited the geographic bottom of the planet a little more than a century ago.

Storms Over the Mediterranean As Seen From Orbit

Typhoon Haiyan As Seen From the Space Station

‏@AstroKarenN Typhoon Haiyan. November 9. pic.twitter.com/3Km8rLiC05

Super-Typhoon Haiyan Lashes the Philippines

Super-Typhoon Haiyan was lashing the central and southern Philippines on Nov. 7 bringing maximum sustained winds of a Category 5 hurricane. NASA is providing visible, infrared and microwave satellite data to forecasters and warnings are in effect for the Philippines and Micronesia as Haiyan moves west.

Earth from Space: Uganada Lands of Change

Lakes and mountains of western Uganda are captured in this Envisat radar image. The area pictured is part of the Albertine Rift, a branch of the East African Rift where the Somali Plate is splitting away from the rest of the continent.

Upsala Glacier Retreat As Seen From Space

This photograph by an astronaut on the International Space Station highlights the snout of the Upsala Glacier (49.88°S, 73.3°W) on the Argentine side of the North Patagonian Icefield. Ice flow in this glacier comes from the north (right in this rotated image).

Video: NASA Google Plus Hangout Briefing on Antarctic Ice Campaign

NASA hosted a Google+ Hangout news conference on Tuesday, Oct. 29 to share information about Operation IceBridge's upcoming airborne field campaign in Antarctica.