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Watts Up With That?
By Steven Goddard
Last month we discussed how NASA continues to spread worries about the Antarctic warming and melting.
A January 12, 2010 Earth Observatory article warns that Antarctica
“has been losing more than a hundred cubic ki... 2
Olelog
NASA Earth Observatory has published a nice satellite image of the Acraman impact structure in South Australia. The Acraman crater is a so-called complex crater, as opposed to simple craters - see drawing below:
The intermediate cr... 3
Volcanism
At the NASA Earth Observatory a new natural colour image of Chile’s Chaitén volcano and the surrounding area has been published in the Natural Hazards category. Captured on 25 February 2010 by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectro... 4
Volcanism
The NASA Earth Observatory has published two satellite images of Montserrat, one showing the island in March 2007 before the Soufrière Hills lava dome collapse of 11 February 2010, and one captured ten days after that event. The two... 5
Volcanism
The NASA Earth Observatory is currently showcasing a stunning image – two volcanoes erupting simultaneously on the far-eastern Russian peninsula of Kamchatka. The two are Bezmianny (bottom) and Kliuchevskoi (top). This false-colour ... 6
Volcanism
Many thanks to Robert Simmon of the NASA Earth Observatory who forwarded this image (other versions at various pixel sizes available at NASA’s Rapid Response site) of the Lesser Antilles captured by the MODIS aboard NASA’s Terra sat... 7
Volcanism
Undersea volcano Fukutoku-Okanoba in the Japanese Volcano Islands erupted a few days ago, producing steam and ash, and discolouring the surrounding water. The NASA Earth Observatory has two nice images of this event captured on 9 an... 8
Gawker
The New York snowstorm, which we've been led to believe will be some kind of armageddon, got started late and will apparently also finish late. How apt. Here's a satellite image of the impending storm. [NASA Earth Observatory, via F... 9
DCist
NASA image courtesy MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC
After seeing this incredible image in December, we kept our eyes peeled for photography from NASA's Earth Observatory of last weekend's snowstorm, and weren't disappoi... 10
Highly Allochthonous
It's been a while since my last update on Lusi, the allegedly/probably drilling-triggered mud volcano near Sidoarjo, Indonesia. But the NASA Earth Observatory has just released this image, taken last autumn:
Lusi,October 2009. So... 11
Volcanism
NASA’s Earth Observatory has been following the Soufrière Hills eruption with a great collection of fascinating images since the volcano saw a resurgence of activity in the autumn of 2009. The latest image is a crystal-clear shot fr... 12
Watts Up With That?
Steven Goddard looks at trends in Antarctica and compares to NASA’s recent article.
A January 12, 2010 Earth Observatory article warns that Antarctica
“has been losing more than a hundred cubic kilometers (24 cubic miles) of ice eac... 13
TreeHugger
This map of the Arctic shows how earlier melt onset (left), and later freeze onset (middle), have contributed to longer melt season (right), over the past 30 years. Image and credit: NASA Earth Observatory.
We've all heard about t... 14
Volcanism
The image above, from the NASA Earth Observatory, shows ongoing activity at Turrialba volcano, Costa Rica, captured by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) aboard NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite on 21 January 2010. The damage ca... 15
Volcanism
Image of the day for 7 January 2010 at the NASA Earth Observatory is this view of Soufrière Hills volcano on the Caribbean island of Montserrat, captured by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) aboard NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satel... 16
Olelog
Begin this month I wrote a post on Linear Dunes. NASA’s Earth Observatory has now published an image showing another peculiar dune form. The image is from the Ténéré Desert in Niger, and Linear dunes are also visible in the picture ... 17
DCist
Image courtesy the NASA Earth Observatory, created by Jesse Allen using data provided courtesy of the MODIS Rapid Response team.
Since the power and/or internet was out at this writer's house most of the weekend, here's a spec... 18
Volcanism
Quick work from the NASA Earth Observatory team: they have posted an image of Mayon captured yesterday, 15 December 2009, by the Advanced Land Imager on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite. A plume is visible emerging from May... 19
Bad Astronomy
On NASA’s Earth Observatory site, a picture was just posted that’s too pretty not to share. It’s a plume escaping from the Bezymianny Volcano in Kamchatka on November 25:
Cooool. It was taken by the Earth-observing satellite Terra,... 20
Volcanism
This image, from the NASA Earth Observatory (click on the image to view the original full-size version) shows the northern part of the Republic of Vanuatu in the south-west Pacific. It was acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging... |
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