May 12, 2026

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Australia’s Cloudy Beauty

Australia’s Cloudy Beauty

Valley fog gathered in the Victorian Alps while an arch-shaped cloud drifted across Port Phillip Bay.

Color Off the Mid-Atlantic Coast

Color Off the Mid-Atlantic Coast

Something is brewing in shallow waters offshore of Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia.

Tracy Arm’s Post-Tsunami Landscape

Tracy Arm’s Post-Tsunami Landscape

A landslide-triggered tsunami stripped vegetation from the shore of the glacial fjord in summer 2025.

A Sea of Spinning Clouds

A Sea of Spinning Clouds

Icy, isolated Peter I Island stirred up a show in the atmosphere off the West Antarctic coast.

Melting Snow Off Shivelyuch

Melting Snow Off Shivelyuch

Near-constant activity continues on the volcano in Russia.

May 2026 Satellite Puzzler

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May 2026 Satellite Puzzler

More from NASA Earth Science

NASA’s C-20A aircraft completed a series of flights on April 29 over Central California to contribute new data to improve the accuracy of the region’s earthquake models and support NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar), the U.S.-India satellite mission launched last year to track hazards, monitor ecosystems and crops, and measure change in ice sheets and glaciers.

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