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  • Bloomin' Black Sea
    Phytoplankton color the water with a burst of spring growth.
     
  • Fresh Lava Flow on Bagana Volcano
    Satellites show the effects of the ongoing eruption at Papua New Guinea’s most active volcano.
     
  • Strong Rains in Southern China
    This color-coded map shows rainfall amounts in and around southern China May 10–16, 2012.
     
  • Gladiator Fire in Arizona
    A wildfire north of Phoenix threatened the historic mining community of Crown King.
     
  • Smoke Plume from Baikal over Bering?
    A plume stretched across the far northern Pacific in May 2012, likely the result of fires in eastern Russia.
     
  • Activity at Popocatépetl
    Satellite images show a volcanic plume spreading from one of Mexico’s most active volcanoes.
     
  • Haze Over Northern China
    A blanket of haze, likely fueled in part by wildfires in Russia, hung over China in early May.
     
  • Dust Storm in the Middle East
    Acquired May 11, 2012, this natural-color image shows a dust storm over parts of Syria, Iraq, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia.
     
  • New posts in the Earth Matters blog - Checking in and checking out of spring break
    The past few weeks have been rough on Earth-observing satellites. But there was some good news and some engineering prowess to go along with the troubles.
     
  • New posts in the Earth Matters blog - The EO on iPad and a Quilt
    We often see our images and stories pop up in different places...
     
  • World of Change: Columbia Glacier, Alaska
    Since 1980, the volume of this glacier that spills into the Prince William Sound has shrunk by half. Climate change may have nudged the process along, but mechanical forces have played the largest role in the ice loss.
     
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