When NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization's (ISRO) new Earth satellite NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) ...

Credit: NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens ... climate as warmer fresh water mixes with cold seawater. This image was taken by the Operational Land Imager on the Landsat 8 satellite ...

Wetlands are ecosystems, in which water is the primary factor controlling ... Alhough they cover only around 6 per cent of the Earth’s land surface, 40 per cent of all plant and animal species ...

As Earth grows ... of the Earth’s land drier over the past three decades while rapidly increasing the proportion of excessively salty soils. Drylands, or arid areas where water is hard to ...

A NASA satellite has spotted frozen "kidney beans" on Mars' sand dunes trapped in place until springtime. Photographing them can help us determine if there was ever enough water on Mars to sustain ...

The NASA Earth Observatory has released a series of images taken with the Operational ... with no discernable land peeking out from the water. But following an eruption in early 2023, an island ...