August 18, 2026

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Lala Batters Hawaii

Lala Batters Hawaii

The powerful storm delivered extreme rainfall and damaging winds to the state, passing the Island of Hawaiʻi as a category 1 hurricane.

Chasing Fire Clouds in Utah

Chasing Fire Clouds in Utah

NASA aircraft are sampling smoke lofted high into the atmosphere by one of the most formidable cloud types in the sky—towering, smoke-infused pyrocumulonimbus.

A Sunflower’s View of Totality

A Sunflower’s View of Totality

The Moon slid between the Sun and Earth to produce a stunning celestial show visible from Spain in August 2026.

Cascade Volcanoes Shrouded in Smoke

Cascade Volcanoes Shrouded in Smoke

From the International Space Station, astronauts photographed Mount Hood and Mount Rainier as wildfire smoke spread across the Pacific Northwest in summer 2026.

Stops Along the Path of Totality

Stops Along the Path of Totality

Western Iceland and northern Spain are among the few Northern Hemisphere locations experiencing a total solar eclipse on August 12, 2026.

More from NASA Earth Science

The Gulf of Maine North Atlantic Time Series, or GNATS, produces data that is used to validate NASA’s suite of ocean color satellites.

A NASA-funded air pollution monitoring network has provided one of the most detailed long-term views yet of the role of black carbon, or soot produced by fires, diesel vehicles, and other combustion sources, in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa.

Certain kinds of clouds are misbehaving – appearing more often and lower in the sky than they used to. To help identify the factors influencing these changes, scientists have asked people around the world with cameras to submit fresh images of these clouds as a part of the NASA-supported Space Cloud Watch project. Now, one volunteer has developed a new tool to help other Space Cloud Watch volunteers work more efficiently.


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