Every month on Earth Matters, we offer a puzzling satellite image. The April 2025 puzzler is shown above. Your challenge is to use the comments section to tell us where it is, what we are looking at, ...

Just as the incoming and outgoing energy at the Earth’s surface must balance, the flow of energy into the atmosphere must be balanced by an equal flow of energy out of the atmosphere and back to space ...

Update on 4/25: This Landsat image shows Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument in the winter. Congratulations to Mike and Charles for being the first readers to identify the location. Every ...

Every month on Earth Matters, we offer a puzzling satellite image. The April 2025 puzzler is shown above. Your challenge is to use the comments section to tell us where it is, what we are looking at, ...

The global ocean is made up of five major ocean basins: the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern and Arctic Ocean. The Pacific Ocean is the largest of these basins as well as the deepest. Its expanse ...

Your challenge is to use the comments section to tell us where it is, what we are looking at, and why it is interesting.

Update on 4/25: This Landsat image shows Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument in the winter. Congratulations to Mike and Charles for being the first readers to identify the location. Every ...

Landslides cause thousands of deaths and billions of dollars in property damage each year. Surprisingly, very few centralized global landslide databases exist, especially those that are publicly ...

Earth Day (8,192 by 8,192 pixels, 9.1 MB JPEG) Earth Night (8,192 by 8,192 pixels, 4.2 MB JPEG) ...

The global ocean is made up of five major ocean basins: the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern and Arctic Ocean. The Pacific Ocean is the largest of these basins as well as the deepest. Its expanse ...

Vanguard II hangs in the atrium of the Earth sciences building at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: NASA/Tabatha Luskey The shiny metallic orb hanging in the Earth sciences building at ...