Satellite image of the Camp fire raging in California, captured on November 8, 2018 by the Operational Land Imager on Landsat 8. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the US Geological Survey and MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS. /LANCE and GIBS/Worldview.
Over the past two and a half decades, NASA The Earth Observatory has published more than 18,000 image-based stories. The video below highlights some of NASA’s favorites.
Since the launch of NASA’s Earth Observatory (EO) on April 29, 1999, the site has hosted more than 18,000 image-based stories, featuring everything from the most recent satellite images to records of changes over several decades. This video highlights 25 of our favorite images and data visualizations. The collection depicts Earth’s diverse landscapes – deserts, mountains, oceans and polar regions – as well as depictions of human interaction with the environment.
Want more? Explore past archive content or browse by location with the EO Explorer tool. And as always, stay up to date with the latest daily content as EO enters the 26th year of Image of the Day. NASA Earth Observatory: where every day has been Earth Day since April 1999.
More information about the images featured in this video can be found in their associated stories Image of the Day.
Camp fire rages in California
Churning in the Chukchi Sea
Stranded in the Caspian Sea
Where do batteries start?
Night light maps open up new applications
A slice of glory
Clouds over the Indian Ocean
Another eruption in Iceland
Sea ice surrounds Shikotan
Still sandy after all these years
Laura comes ashore
Summer melt in Svalbard
Otherworldly land
Cloudscape at dawn, Northwest Atlantic
Cruise past the Northern Lights
Clouds “shine” over the Mediterranean Sea
Evening glow in Junggar Basin
A windbreak grid in Hokkaido
Green harvest in South Korean waters
Fish in green, live in yellow
Yukon Delta, Alaska
Terra Nova Bay
The ephemeral Lake Mackay in Australia
Just another day in the land of aerosols
The view from the top
NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, Joshua Stevens, Jesse Allen, Robert Simmon, Jeff Schmaltz and Norman Kuring, using US Geological Survey Landsat data, NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview data VIIRS day-night band from the Suomi National Polar Orbiting Partnership, EO-1 ALI data provided by the NASA EO-1 team, data from NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS and the ASTER States science team -United States/Japan, and GEOS data from the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office. at NASA GSFC. Astronaut photographs provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observation Facility and Johnson Space Center’s Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit. Video by Kathryn Hansen. Music, “Inspire”, by Liborio Conti.
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