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Today’s Image of the Day comes thanks to the NASA Earth Observatory and features a look at the thick smoke floating over northwest Canada.

Suomi NPP 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 European Space Agency's Proba-V satellite and features a look at Africa’s sub-Saharan Sahel.

Proba-V

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 from NASA and features a look at meltwater channels on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

Operation IceBridge

Today’s Image of the Day comes thanks to the European Space Agency and features a look at Alert, Canada through a Sentinel-1 radar composite image.

Sentinel-1A

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)

Orbiting Carbon Observatory OCO-2

Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2)

Huge Animals That Should Not Exist

Nature is Scary as Hell

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GOES-13 Satellite

RapidScat

Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP)

GPM (Global Precipitation Measurement)

SeaWiFS

ALOS Satellite

Forest Fire Smoke

ARCTAS (Arctic Research of the Composition of the Troposphere from Aircraft and Satellites)

The Water Planet

Earth Day 2011

Flatfish (sole)

NOAA Ocean Explorer: Living Ocean

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