Astronauts have photographed the diminishing lake in Central Africa for decades, most recently in January 2025, as its area remained just a fraction of its past size.
Published Jun 8, 2025
The Mississippi River has shaped the landscape in southeastern Louisiana, supporting agriculture and connecting the region with vital trade and navigation routes.
Published Jun 1, 2025
A network of brackish lakes and associated wetlands in northwestern Australia held more water than usual in October 2024 following an especially intense wet season.
Published May 25, 2025
Roanoke, Virginia, is the largest city in the Blue Ridge Mountains and a stopover along a historic, scenic road.
Published May 18, 2025
On a night with little to no moonlight, other sources of nighttime lights were on vivid display in parts of Burma, Thailand, and Laos.
Published May 11, 2025
In northern Chad, the tallest peak in the Sahara Desert is topped with a patch of salt, not snow.
Published May 4, 2025
The large metropolis, fringed by scenic coastline, stretches across two continents.
Published Apr 20, 2025
An astronaut orbiting over Southeast Asia captured a colorful photo of the lights from boats, ports, and other lit infrastructure.
Published Apr 13, 2025
Sunglint brightened river and lake water in this photograph of southeastern Chad.
Published Apr 6, 2025
Gateway towns in Wyoming and Montana flank the Rocky Mountains and provide an access point to Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks.
Published Mar 30, 2025
The Italian region displays a network of lines—and one nearly perfect circle—that connect inland settlements and agricultural areas with the bustling Adriatic coast.
Published Mar 23, 2025
A salt-encrusted landscape surrounds the Colorado River where it once emptied into the Gulf of California.
Published Mar 16, 2025
The turquoise waters of Ngangla Ringco add vivid color to the otherwise brown landscape in this part of the Tibetan Plateau.
Published Mar 9, 2025
Nighttime lights reveal the structure of Turkmenistan’s capital city.
Published Feb 23, 2025
Urban structures and the city’s Great Mosque stand out amid the hilly, desert landscape of western Saudi Arabia.
Published Feb 16, 2025
The dormant volcano in northern Iran lies in the Alborz Mountains, which separate the region’s wet coastal lowlands from the deserts toward the south.
Published Feb 9, 2025
Florida’s largest open-water estuary is known for its shallow, calm, blue-green waters.
Published Feb 2, 2025
A multitude of mining and agricultural activities surround the Western Australian town, southeast of Perth.
Published Jan 26, 2025
The concentric rings of an ancient, extinct volcanic system stand above the island nation’s relatively flat central highlands.
Published Jan 19, 2025
The older and newer cities of the Greater Cairo region look very different at night when viewed from above.
Published Jan 12, 2025
The volcano, located on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, displays numerous depressions that collect meltwater during the warmer months of the year.
Published Jan 5, 2025
In November 2024, an astronaut captured a striking photo of the Moon as it lingered just above Earth’s horizon.
Published Jan 1, 2025
Water levels were low in Razazah Lake when an astronaut snapped this photograph from the International Space Station.
Published Dec 29, 2024
An astronaut photographed the structure of a burgeoning cumulus congestus near the shore of the Persian Gulf.
Published Dec 21, 2024
The Cheleken Peninsula and its two parallel spits comprise the hammerhead-like landform that juts into the eastern Caspian Sea.
Published Dec 15, 2024
An astronaut’s sweeping nighttime photograph of Namibia and South Africa reveals the region’s lighted communities, many of which are centered around mining.
Published Dec 8, 2024
Perth, the only city along the country’s western coastline with more than 1 million people, displays widespread urban infrastructure alongside the Swan and Canning rivers.
Published Dec 1, 2024
Orange, yellow, and white lights span Chicago at night, illuminating its gridded downtown and tracing its sinuous rivers and parks.
Published Nov 24, 2024
The exceptionally long high-mountain glacier in Central Asia ranges from snowy white near the mountain peaks to dusty brown at lower elevations.
Published Nov 17, 2024
Windswept sand formations known as star dunes, or pyramid dunes, are a distinctive feature of the Sahara Desert in northern Africa.
Published Nov 10, 2024
