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Last update: December 13th, 2018 at 5:00 pm

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Today’s Image of the Day features a look at the Strait of Dover, which is located in the narrowest part of the English Channel.

International Space Station Photos

Today’s Image of the Day features a look at the Strait of Dover, which is located in the narrowest part of the English Channel.

Environment

Today’s Image of the Day comes from the NASA Earth Observatory and features a look at rainwater in Rub’ al-Khali, the largest contiguous desert in the world.

Landsat-8 Satellite

Today’s Image of the Day comes from the NASA Earth Observatory and features a look at the Fuego volcano in Guatemala erupting and shooting ash into the air.

Suomi NPP Satellite

Today’s Image of the Day comes from the NASA Earth Observatory and features a look at wildfires blowing smoke over the coast of Australia’s Northern Territory.

Aqua Earth Observing Satellite

Today’s Image of the Day comes from the NASA Earth Observatory and features a stunning look at Alaska’s mountain glaciers.

Operation IceBridge

Today’s Image of the Day comes from the NASA Earth Observatory and features a look at violent dust storms blowing across western Asia this past month.

MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer)

Today’s Image of the Day comes from the NASA Earth Observatory and features a look at India’s Nalabana Bird Sanctuary in Chilika Lake.

Earth Observing-1 Satellite

Today’s Image of the Day comes from the NASA Earth Observatory and features a look at Loktak Lake, India, which contains circular floating islands called “phumdis.”

ASTER on the Terra Satellie

Today’s Image of the Day comes from the European Space Agency (ESA) and features a look at the Florida peninsula captured from space.

Sentinel-1A

Today’s Image of the Day comes from the European Space Agency (ESA) and features a look at Italy with unusually high amounts of snow on the ground.

Sentinel 3A

Today’s Image of the Day features a look at Mount Mayon, which some call the perfect volcano due to its symmetrical cone.

Sentinel-2A

Today’s Image of the Day features a look at blue and green phytoplankton blooms in the southern Atlantic Ocean right by the Falkland Islands.

Suomi NPP (National Polar-orbiting Partnership)

Today’s Image of the Day comes from the European Space Agency (ESA) and features a look at a very frozen Lake Chany in Russia.

Proba-V

Today’s Image of the Day comes thanks to the European Space Agency (ESA) and features a look at the Nordenskiold Glacier in Greenland.

Sentinel 2-A

Today’s Image of the Day comes courtesy of the NASA Earth Observatory and features a look at Hurricane Maria over Puerto Rico.

GOES-13 Satellite

Today’s Image of the Day comes thanks to the NASA Earth Observatory and features a look at Super Typhoon Noru in the Pacific Ocean just south of Japan.

50 Incredible Image of Earth from Space

Today’s Image of the Day comes thanks to the NASA Earth Observatory and features a look at spirals of plankton in the southeastern Indian Ocean.

MODIS Image Of The Day Archive

Today’s Image of the Day comes thanks to the NASA Earth Observatory and features a map of sulfur dioxide emissions from volcanoes in the Aleutian Islands.

Aura Satellite

Science

Today’s Image of the Day comes thanks to NASA and features a stunning look at the atmospheric river responsible for soaking California this past week.

Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS)

Laguna del Negro Francisco

Earth Images From The Space Station

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station photographed a fiery sunset that looks like a vast sheet of flame.

Space

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