NASA's fleet of Earth-observing satellites captured 12 remarkable views throughout 2025, documenting major natural phenomena, climate events, and human impacts like wildfires, hurricanes, and ...

Fires were burning across eastern China in early October, 2012, contributing to the haze hanging over the region. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Aqua satellite ...

On June 30, 2011 the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Terra satellite made multiple passes over the Arctic, capturing a true-color image of the summer lands and ...

Three images from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA's Terra satellite were combined to create this image of the storm system. The images were captured on Jan. 31 at ...

ABSTRACT In Part I of this paper, the infrared bands of the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) are analyzed for volcanic ash signals using principal component image analysis. Target ...

On Sept. 28 at 18:20 UTC 2:20 p.m. EDT the MODIS instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite captured this visible image of Tropical Storm Nicole over Cuba before it weakened back into a tropical depression.

For the first time since 2000, Copahue is erupting, sending an ash plume across southern South America. So far, the eruption is following the same patterns as the activity that ran from July to ...

Location of Landsat test scenes and field validation area within the Brazilian Amazon. Percent tree cover values from the 2001 Vegetation Continuous Fields (VCF) product show the extent of forest ...