The Heat Is On: Thermal Anomalies Detected in Ethiopia’s “Gateway to Hell”
Erta Ale, in the East African Rift, is Ethiopia’s most active volcano. The heat is always on at Erta Ale volcano in Ethiopia. In East…
Erta Ale, in the East African Rift, is Ethiopia’s most active volcano. The heat is always on at Erta Ale volcano in Ethiopia. In East…
Fluid dynamics put on a spectacular show around Norway’s remote Bear Island. Theodore von Kármán, a Hungarian-American physicist, is well-known within NASA for helping found…
Heavy rainfall in the Horn of Africa submerged entire towns in floodwater. Heavy rainfall led to extensive flooding in Somalia, Ethiopia, and Kenya in October…
The fiery and icy upper reaches of the Antarctic volcano pierced through a canopy of clouds. On a late spring day in 2023, the summit…
An unexpected color palette reveals the features of an iconic glacial landscape in southeastern Alaska. To human eyes, glacial ice typically looks white tinged with…
Ice cores and satellite images are helping preserve the history of a disappearing ice cap in the Peruvian Andes. The Quelccaya Ice Cap rests on…
Flanked by mountain ranges on three sides, the basin in northwestern China sees frequent dust storms. The Taklamakan desert, located in China’s Tarim Basin, is…
The Alaskan city of Anchorage received record snowfall in November 2023. Winter weather arrived in force in Southcentral Alaska in 2023. Anchorage logged its snowiest…
Much of the canned pumpkin that ends up in Thanksgiving pies and soups came from Central Illinois. Pumpkins, a type of winter squash native to…
A scientist spotted a jade hue in the sea ice fastened to the coast of East Antarctica. Jan Lieser has analyzed countless satellite images of…
A wet winter in western states provided a short-term reprieve to the decades-long drought in the reservoir. After falling to record lows in early 2023,…
Curtains of colorful light danced across the sky after solar storms sent energized particles crashing into Earth’s upper atmosphere. In early November 2023, sky watchers…
Eurasia’s tallest active volcano spewed ash that drifted hundreds of kilometers. Eruption activity escalated at the Klyuchevskoy volcano on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula in autumn 2023….
Shifting rainfall patterns are projected to leave millions of people without consistent access to food in late 2023 and early 2024. The ongoing El Niño…
Past volcanic eruptions and salt deposits from present-day hot springs left this distinctive “face” in northern Chad. From above, the 1,000-meter (3,300-foot) deep volcanic pit…
Despite their rusty color, these arteries of water in Bolivia and Madagascar are important for biodiversity. Some of Earth’s water bodies can assume a blood-like…
Eruptions on Russia’s active Kamchatka Peninsula made for a dramatic display of steam, snow, and shadows. Neighboring volcanoes on Russia’s ever-fiery Kamchatka Peninsula puffed away…
As the Moon crossed between the Sun and Earth during the 2023 annular solar eclipse, its shadow darkened skies across the United States. On October…