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ALT A nighttime photo taken from space shows a network of bright yellow city lights in the U.S. Midwest. Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, and Louisville stand out as bright clusters of light. Colorful airglow and bright sunlight arc across Earth's curved horizon. The rest of the image is dark. Part of the ISS is visible along the top of the image. Credit: NASA
ALT The TSIS-2 satellite sits on a board just outside of a large circular entrance to a testing chamber. The satellite has wires, hardware, and foil-looking material covering some parts of the large spacecraft. Credit: General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems
ALT A crescent Earth captured through the windows of the Orion spacecraft by the Artemis II crew, shortly after they set a new record for the farthest humans have ever traveled from the planet as they flew around the far side of the Moon. Just the top of Earth is visible, glowing faintly against the dark black background of space. Credit: NASA
ALT Landsat 8 satellite image of Dalarna County in Sweden. The lake is a dark black mass shaped like a cat with its mouth open. Around it, the land is green and brown. Credit: NASA
ALT An astronaut photograph of a bright white iceberg that is shaped like a coffin. It floats in bright blue ocean waters and the scene is covered in a fog of puffy white clouds. Credit: NASA
ALT Satellite image showing several short, light-colored rocky ridges that radiate out from a central point. It looks like a spider amid an orange and tan desert landscape. Credit: NASA
ALT ISS astronaut image of an aurora that is mostly bright green and pink. Credit: NASA
ALT A nighttime satellite image shows Arnab's circular structure with bright white clouds as the storm approaches India's east coast. City lights are visible on darkened land surfaces on the left side of the image. Borders are outlined. Credit: NASA
ALT A map shows Greenland’s bedrock topography that lies below the ice sheet. In general, taller areas are along the edges of the ice sheet. Shallow areas below sea level surround Greenland and cover its interior. A megacanyon runs down from the northern edge and into the interior. There are tall mountain ranges in the south and east. In the western-central area are some long, straight valleys. Credit: NASA, using data from Chartrand et al.
ALT A U.S. Drought Monitor map of Texas depicts drought intensity across the state. Severe, extreme, and exceptional drought are shown in various shades of red and orange and cover large portions of the state. The area around Lubbock falls within the severe category. Extreme and exceptional drought is present in counties to the immediate northeast. Credit: NASA
ALT NASA satellite image of the Lubbock region in Texas on September 9, 2026. The area appears dry and brown. Only some fields are green and most of the lakes appear white and dried out. Credit: NASA
ALT Aerial view of Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica, showing a vast expanse of white ice ending in a steep ice cliff above dark blue ocean water. Broken ice surrounds the glacier’s edge. Credit: NASA
ALT Aerial photograph of a fire-generated cloud. Near the ground, dark brown smoke shows the location of the Widemouth 2 fire in Utah. The smoke rises high into the atmosphere and spreads out. Above the smoke layer are puffy white clouds, including a puff of very tall clouds. Credit: INSPYRE / Bernadett Weinzierl
ALT Photograph of NASA’s ER-2 aircraft on the runway. In the foreground, a person holds two orange lights to signal to the plane. The sunset is orange and pink in the background. Credit: NASA / Milan Loiacono
ALT A photograph shows a truck and two people in yellow firefighting shirts on the side of a road. In the distance is a wildfire and the sky is filled with smoke. Credit: NASA / Milan Loiacono
ALT Full-disk satellite view of Earth. The Americas are visible on the right. Four tropical cyclones swirl above the blue waters of the Pacific Ocean. From left to right: Nolo, Odalys, Polo, and Rachel. The Intertropical Convergence Zone appears as a band of puffy white clouds near the equator. The storms are all near this area. Credit: NASA
ALT Satellite image of low-lying clouds covering western Washington and Oregon on September 19, 2026. The clouds are puffy and white. They obscure most of the landscape between the Pacific coast and the foothills of the Cascade Range. Parts of the Olympic Mountains and Oregon Coast Range are visible above the clouds. Credit: NASA
ALT Satellite image of Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska on September 23, 2014. The landscape is mostly green and brown. The area is mountainous and there is a long mountain range along the right side of the image that is capped with white snow. One of these is Mount Katmai. The jagged shoreline and blue ocean water can be seen in the lower right corner. Credit: NASA
