If you live in El Paso, Las Cruces, or Ciudad Juárez and feel like you’ve been inhaling the Chihuahuan Desert lately, you’re not imagining things. The Borderplex region is experiencing its dustiest season since the Dust Bowl, the period of devastating dust storms that hit North America a century ago. NASA’s Aqua satellite captured an […]
Here’s a NASA Satellite View of One of New Jersey’s Biggest Wildfires in Decades
Images taken by a NASA satellite this week reveal the worrying extent of a fast-moving wildfire in southern New Jersey. Taken during the fire’s second day, the images capture plumes of smoke and scorched terrain from the fire that’s burned 15,300 acres to date. New Jersey’s Pine Barrens are no stranger to fire—pitch pines actually […]
NASA Captures Devastating Tennessee Floods From Space After Winter Storm Drenches Region
A large winter storm system that moved across the East Coast over the weekend caused serious floods in Tennessee and Kentucky, as seen in newly released NASA satellite images. The images show the Mississippi River’s serpentine path in western Tennessee and eastern Arkansas and Missouri. They also show the rivers and water bodies east of […]