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ALT Landsat 8 satellite image of Dalarna County in Sweden. The lake is a dark black mass shaped like a cat with its mouth open. Around it, the land is green and brown. Credit: NASA
ALT An astronaut photograph of a bright white iceberg that is shaped like a coffin. It floats in bright blue ocean waters and the scene is covered in a fog of puffy white clouds. Credit: NASA
ALT Satellite image showing several short, light-colored rocky ridges that radiate out from a central point. It looks like a spider amid an orange and tan desert landscape. Credit: NASA
ALT ISS astronaut image of an aurora that is mostly bright green and pink. Credit: NASA
ALT Drone image of oyster-growing equipment in the water off the coast of Virginia’s Eastern Shore. The equipment looks like long dashed lines made up of gray blocks. It is floating in water that has brown swirls from algae. Green land is visible along the left side of the image. Credit: Alex Lambert, used with permission
ALT A nighttime satellite image shows Arnab's circular structure with bright white clouds as the storm approaches India's east coast. City lights are visible on darkened land surfaces on the left side of the image. Borders are outlined. Credit: NASA
ALT A map shows Greenland’s bedrock topography that lies below the ice sheet. In general, taller areas are along the edges of the ice sheet. Shallow areas below sea level surround Greenland and cover its interior. A megacanyon runs down from the northern edge and into the interior. There are tall mountain ranges in the south and east. In the western-central area are some long, straight valleys. Credit: NASA, using data from Chartrand et al.
ALT A U.S. Drought Monitor map of Texas depicts drought intensity across the state. Severe, extreme, and exceptional drought are shown in various shades of red and orange and cover large portions of the state. The area around Lubbock falls within the severe category. Extreme and exceptional drought is present in counties to the immediate northeast. Credit: NASA
ALT NASA satellite image of the Lubbock region in Texas on September 9, 2026. The area appears dry and brown. Only some fields are green and most of the lakes appear white and dried out. Credit: NASA
ALT Aerial view of Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica, showing a vast expanse of white ice ending in a steep ice cliff above dark blue ocean water. Broken ice surrounds the glacier’s edge. Credit: NASA
ALT Aerial photograph of a fire-generated cloud. Near the ground, dark brown smoke shows the location of the Widemouth 2 fire in Utah. The smoke rises high into the atmosphere and spreads out. Above the smoke layer are puffy white clouds, including a puff of very tall clouds. Credit: INSPYRE / Bernadett Weinzierl
ALT Photograph of NASA’s ER-2 aircraft on the runway. In the foreground, a person holds two orange lights to signal to the plane. The sunset is orange and pink in the background. Credit: NASA / Milan Loiacono
ALT A photograph shows a truck and two people in yellow firefighting shirts on the side of a road. In the distance is a wildfire and the sky is filled with smoke. Credit: NASA / Milan Loiacono
