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Landsat 8 images of Antarctica on February 4, 2020 (left) and February 13, 2020 (right)

Antarctica Melts Under Its Hottest Days on Record

02.21.2020
Ice caps and glaciers felt the heat as temperatures reached 18.3°C (64.9°F).
Terra satellite image of Tropical Depression 18P

18P – Southern Pacific Ocean

02.21.2020
The low-pressure area that has been lingering west-northwest of American Samoa for several days has organized into a tropical depression.
GPM satellite image of rainfall in Tropical Storm Vicky and Tropical Depression 18P

Vicky – Southern Pacific Ocean

02.21.2020
There are two tropical cyclones affecting American Samoa in the South Pacific Ocean on Feb. 21. Tropical Storm Vicky has triggered warnings, while Tropical Cyclone 18P continues to develop.
Photo of clouds and airplane wing

Media Invited to Inside Look at NASA Marine Cloud Study

02.20.2020
Media are invited to preview a NASA airborne science campaign to help improve weather and climate predictions at 9 a.m. EST Tuesday, Feb. 25, at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.
Photo of launch of Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket carrying GEMS

First Satellite in Global Air Quality Constellation Launches

02.20.2020
South Korea's Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) instrument on the Korean Aerospace Research Institute GEO-KOMPSAT-2B satellite launched into orbit.
Suomi NPP satellite image of fires burning across Myanmar and Cambodia

Hundreds of Fires Light Up Myanmar and Cambodia

02.19.2020
NOAA/NASA's Suomi NPP satellite captured this image of the hundreds of fires burning across large swaths of land in both Myanmar and Cambodia on Feb. 18, 2020.
Aqua satellite image of Tropical Storm Gabekile

Gabekile – Southern Indian Ocean

02.18.2020
Winds outside of Tropical Storm Gabekile are ripping the storm apart.
Map of subsurface soil moisture anomaly for Thailand and surrounding countries

Drought Hits Thailand

02.15.2020
A severe drought in Thailand is affecting agriculture and drinking water in the region.
Landsat 8 satellite image of icebergs calving from Pine Island Glacier

Pine Island Glacier’s Newest Iceberg

02.14.2020
Iceberg B-49 calved from the Antarctic glacier in February 2020.
Landsat 8 satellite image of flooding and burn scars in eastern Australia

Extreme Rain Douses Fires, Causes Floods in Australia

02.13.2020
A season of extremes in eastern Australia took another dramatic turn in mid-February 2020.
OSIRIS-REx orbit the asteroid Bennu

Status Update: OSIRIS-REx Osprey Flyover

02.13.2020
OSIRIS-REx successfully executed a 0.4-mile (620-m) flyover of site Osprey.
Map from NASA’s LHASA landslide risk model and Global Landslide Catalog tracking the areas most at risk from deadly landslides

Climate Change Could Trigger More Landslides in High Mountain Asia

02.11.2020
More frequent and intense rainfall events due to climate change could cause more landslides in the High Mountain Asia region of China, Tibet and Nepal, according to the first quantitative study of the link between precipitation and landslides in the region.
Landsat 8 image of the Andaman Sea

Making Waves in the Andaman Sea

02.10.2020
When tides, currents, and gravity move water masses over seafloor features, they can create wave actions within the ocean.
GPM satellite image of rainfall in Tropical Storm Uesi

Uesi – Southern Pacific Ocean

02.10.2020
NASA analyzed Tropical Storm Uesi’s rainfall and found moderate to heavy rainfall around the storm’s center and in a large band of thunderstorms south of the center.
Simulated natural-color GOES-17 satellite image of arc of clouds stretching from Hawaii to the Pacific Northwest

Moisture Pummels the Pacific Northwest

02.08.2020
Following an exceptionally wet January, an atmospheric river carried even more moisture into the region in February.
Terra satellite image of Tropical Cyclone Damien

Damien – Southern Indian Ocean

02.06.2020
The low-pressure area that formed off Australia’s Kimberley coast and lingered there for a couple of days has moved west and developed into Tropical Cyclone Damien off the Pilbara coastline.
Landsat 8 satellite image of Thwaites Glacier

Thwaites Glacier Transformed

02.06.2020
The amount of ice flowing from the Antarctic glacier has doubled in the span of three decades, and scientists think it could undergo even more dramatic changes in the near future.
Photo of Arctic sea ice

Arctic Ice Melt Is Changing Ocean Currents

02.06.2020
Using 12 years of satellite data, NASA scientists have measured how the influx of cold, fresh water is affecting the Beaufort Gyre, a major Arctic current.
Aqua satellite image of Tropical Cyclone Francisco

Francisco – Southern Indian Ocean

02.05.2020
Shortly after Tropical Cyclone Francisco formed on Feb. 5 in the Southern Indian Ocean, NASA’s Aqua satellite provided a visible image of the storm.
Terra satellite false-color of the Mississippi Delta

Winter Flooding on the Mississippi

02.05.2020
Persistent rains and saturated soils across the watershed swelled the river to its banks and occasionally onto floodplains.
Terra satellite false-color image of Australia's Orroral Valley fire

Australia's Orroral Valley Fire Consumes Over 155,000 Acres in a Week

02.03.2020
NASA's Terra satellite saw yet another fire, known as the Orroral Valley Fire, break out in the Canberra region of Australia, specifically in and around the ​Namadgi National Park.
Global map depicting locations and dates of carbon monoxide observations that MLS made in January 2020.

Australian Smoke Plume Sets Records

02.03.2020
Potent wildfires sent one of the largest plumes of smoke higher into the stratosphere than certain satellites have ever observed.
Landsat 8 satellite image of colorful waters between the Mediterranean island of Elba and the Italian mainland.

Eddy Extravaganza off the Italian Coast

02.01.2020
Natural-color satellite images can capture art-like beauty when sediments trace water currents and eddies; other kinds of data can make that art intersect with scientific understanding.
Terra satellite image of fire and smoke in southeastern Australia

NASA Catches Massive Smoke Plume from New South Wales Fires

01.31.2020
Huge clouds of smoke spilled off the southeastern coast of Australia in this NASA Terra satellite image taken with the MODIS instrument (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) on Jan. 31, 2020
Landsat 8 natural-color image of sediment-filled rivers swollen out of their banks and pouring their outflow into Helodrano Mahajambe (Mahajambe Bay) in northwestern Madagascar

Flood Waters Overwhelm Northern Madagascar

01.31.2020
Torrential rains from several tropical disturbances soaked Madagascar in late January 2020, causing widespread and deadly flooding in the northern reaches of the island.
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