The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (12 May 2020)

Latest Images: https://earthobservatory nasa gov/topic/image-of-the-day

• Denman Glacier Losing Some of Its Footing https://earthobservatory nasa gov/images/146709/denman-glacier-losing-some-of-its-footing/?src=eoa-iotd

• Flooding in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan https://earthobservatory nasa gov/images/146703/flooding-in-uzbekistan-and-kazakhstan/?src=eoa-iotd

• A New Lake—Water Not Lava—On Kilauea https://earthobservatory nasa gov/images/146687/a-new-lakewater-not-lavaon-kilauea/?src=eoa-iotd

• Patagonian Dust Streamers https://earthobservatory nasa gov/images/146681/patagonian-dust-streamers/?src=eoa-iotd

• Perma-Blooms off Mauritania https://earthobservatory nasa gov/images/146684/perma-blooms-off-mauritania/?src=eoa-iotd

• New Zealand Browned by Drought https://earthobservatory nasa gov/images/146674/new-zealand-browned-by-drought/?src=eoa-iotd

• Saving Straddie's Sand https://earthobservatory nasa gov/images/146669/saving-straddies-sand/?src=eoa-iotd

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Earth Matters * Smoke Over Lake Maracaibo Just as we were finishing another story about fires in Venezuela, a surprisingly large, dark smoke plume appeared in VIIRS and MODIS imagery https://earthobservatory nasa gov/blogs/earthmatters/2020/05/08/smoke-over-lake-maracaibo/?src=eoa-blogs

Notes from the Field * Departure Sea ice geophysicist Melinda Webster was ready to fly to the RV Polarstern for the MOSAiC expedition Then COVID-19 was declared a pandemic https://earthobservatory nasa gov/blogs/fromthefield/2020/05/06/departure/?src=eoa-blogs

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