The timing of seasons in North America is changing.
Published Apr 19, 2012
The park was created in October 1949 to protect a small area along the banks of the Mississippi River where Native Americans built earthen mounds for millennia.
Published Sep 11, 2005
Fall was beginning to color the East Coast of the United States when MODIS captured this image on October 12, 2008.
Published Oct 18, 2008
Though it was once the largest forested wetland in North America, only a few forests remain. The rest have been converted into farmland.
Published May 18, 2014
A twenty-year effort to plant millions of trees in Minas Gerais is visible to Landsat.
Published Jul 23, 2019
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua and Terra satellites helped scientists identify this large algal bloom off the eastern coast of Tasmania. Large blooms have not been detected in the Tasman Sea in the past, and scientists from CSIRO Marine Research, the largest marine research organization in Australia, believe this one resulted from the natural upwelling of nutrients along the island’s coast. The bloom is made up of coccolithophores, and is not believed to be harmful to the coastal ecosystem.
Published Oct 28, 2004
