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Earth from afar – Tales of the Blue Marble
A composite picture of the Earth's western hemisphere taken on January 4, 2012 by the Suomi NPP satellite. Click to enlarge. Credit: NASA/NOAA Have you ever taken a portrait of yourself and a friend...
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Earth at night glows with lovely and loathsome lights
This image of the continental United States at night is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite in April and October 2012. City and highway lights, gas flares, wildfires and...
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New view of U.S. at night – Could someone please dim the lights?
The U.S. on the night of Oct. 1, 2013 photographed by the Suomi-NPP satellite from 512 miles high. Light clouds cover the region from Minneapolis across northern Wisconsin. Click for a supersized...
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Oh, the humanity! Revel in NASA’s ‘Global Selfie’
A low-resolution preview of the 3.2-billion-pixel sized NASA Earth Day Global Selfie 2014 photo mosaic. The image is comprised of 36,422 individual photos submitted by people around the world. Click to...
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St. Patrick’s Day aurora storm strongest in a decade
The Suomi NPP satellite photographed the aurora borealis around 12:30 a.m. CDT on March 18, 2015. Auroras appear as white streaks over Hudson Bay, southern Canada, and the northern United States. In...
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Aurora — The Big Picture From 518 Miles Up
The Suomi NPP satellite photographed this view of the aurora on December 22, 2016, when the northern lights stretched across northern Canada. Click for a hi-res image. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory...
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New Earth-at-Night Photos Show People, Light Creep
A small portion of the global night map features a portion of the United States photographed by the Suomi NPP satellite in 2016. Click for the hi-resolution global view. Credit: Joshua Stevens, using...
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Surprise Aurora Steals Into The Night
Moonbeams poke from a raft of clouds at right while a coronal aurora flashes in eerie shapes nearby around 1:30 this morning over Duluth. Bob King Charles Darwin closed the last paragraph of his book...
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Van Allen Belts “Touch” The Earth In South Atlantic Anomaly
This night satellite image, taken on July 14, 2017, picks up the heat from dozens of fires but also an anomalous “hot spot” in the middle of the South Atlantic. NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren...
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