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California’s famous alien landscape seen from space
4+ day, 14+ hour ago (654+ words) stood in for alien worlds for decades. A NASA satellite image reveals the famous landscape from space....Operational Land Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 9 satellite. NASA used a combination of shortwave-infrared,...back roughly 25 million years. The colors in the satellite…...
Remote island is a bird refuge with exceptionally dark night skies
1+ week, 6+ day ago (726+ words) and long stretches of beach. NASA’s Landsat 9 satellite captured this unusually clear view on May 14,...
A massive dust storm erupts in West Africa as the seasons change
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (697+ words) Spectroradiometer) instrument on NASA’s Terra satellite captured the scene on September 5, 2026. Northern...into the air, creating a wall or cloud of dust. Satellite observations showed that the dust storm on September...
Tracking rare water molecules could improve weather forecasts up to five days out
1+ week, 1+ day ago (978+ words) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany built the satellite dataset behind it. Gains were biggest in the...Europe’s MetOp weather satellites. The newest satellite in that line went up in 2025. IASI reads the...
The U.S. could be sitting on a strategic antimony resource: part of the ore is already at the surface
2+ week, 6+ day ago (1222+ words) Antimony rarely receives the attention given to copper, lithium, or gold. This lustrous, silvery metalloid straddles the line between metals and nonmetals, possessing the unusual quirk of expanding… Antimony rarely receives the attention given to copper, lithium, or gold. This…...
Coastal marsh erosion is moving huge amounts of carbon into the ocean
1+ week, 2+ day ago (1019+ words) supported the work. The team used yearly Landsat satellite maps with squares about 98 feet (30 meters) wide....
Ancient iron reveals how mountains and plants reshaped Earth
1+ week, 2+ day ago (703+ words) Ancient iron deposits reveal how mountain building and the spread of land plants transformed Earth's iron cycle over the past 1.2 billion years. For decades, scientists have relied on ancient iron deposits to trace how Earth’s oceans and atmosphere first filled…...
The forces that trigger earthquakes
3+ week, 5+ day ago (1008+ words) Plate tectonics loads a fault over centuries, but something else usually decides the moment it finally breaks. Research on California seismicity shows that groundwater cycles, stress from neighboring ruptures, and fluid injected underground can all nudge a fault past its…...
How we talk to kids about nature can change how much they care
3+ week, 1+ day ago (862+ words) How teachers frame nature can shape children's interest in environmental issues, with human-centered lessons producing a stronger short-term response. Ask a room of ten-year-olds why a wetland is worth protecting, and it turns out the answer you give them matters…...
A volcano that erupted near Mayotte in 2018 brought something extraordinary to the surface: a material from Earth’s birth 4.4 billion years ago
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (1112+ words) A young underwater volcano near Mayotte has carried a chemical memory of Earth’s birth all the way to the seafloor. And it’s an ancient one. Lava from Fani… Lava from Fani Maoré contains signs of mantle material formed within the…...