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Landsat 8 / LDCM (Landsat Data Continuity Mission)
Landsat 9

An Agricultural “Island” in the Saskatchewan River Delta

Surrounded by wetlands, Manitoba’s northernmost farmland near The Pas turns from green to brown over the 2026 growing season.
Posted October 1, 2026
Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR)
Earth Observatory
Hurricanes & Typhoons
Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS)

Powerful Storms Continue to Prowl the Pacific

Hurricanes Polo and Nolo sent destructive effects ashore amid an active season in the northeastern and central Pacific.
Posted September 30, 2026
Clouds
Earth Observatory
Wildfires

Fire Cloud with a Pileus on Top

Scientists captured rare observations of an ephemeral pileus cloud hovering over a smoke-infused cloud that rose above a wildfire in Montana.
Posted September 29, 2026
Earth Observatory
Earth Visualization & Mapping
Goddard Space Flight Center
Ice & Glaciers
ICESat-2 (Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2)
Topography

Uncovering the Valleys Hidden Below Greenland’s Ice

A new map of the terrain beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet links hundreds of valleys that previous maps missed or left fragmented.
Posted September 28, 2026
Aqua
Earth Observatory
Hurricanes & Typhoons
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)

Explosive Intensification for Hurricane Polo

Several ingredients came together off the Pacific coast of Mexico to generate one of the strongest storms the eastern Pacific basin has ever seen.
Posted September 25, 2026
Clouds
Earth Observatory
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)

Cloudy Cloak Over the Northwest

A low-lying cloud layer brought autumn ambience to western Washington and Oregon, while mountainous areas near the coast remained above the pall.
Posted September 24, 2026
Earth Observatory
Landsat 8 / LDCM (Landsat Data Continuity Mission)
Vegetation

Boom Year for Desert Blooms

Carpets of wildflowers burst from arid, ochre-colored land in Western Australia following winter rains.
Posted September 23, 2026
Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR)
Earth Observatory

An Epic View of the Seasons

The tilt in Earth’s axis of rotation makes the apparent position of continents shift with the seasons in imagery from a NASA camera in deep space.
Posted September 22, 2026
Earth Observatory
Ice & Glaciers
Sea Ice

Arctic Melt Season Length Levels Off

While the sea ice melt season has lengthened dramatically in most of the satellite era, the trend unexpectedly stabilized around 2010.
Posted September 21, 2026
Earth Observatory
Extreme Temperatures
Heat & Radiation

Summer Goes Out With a Heat Dome

Temperature records toppled across the central and southern U.S. as the autumnal equinox approached.
Posted September 17, 2026
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