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Since April of 1999, NASA's Earth Observatory has featured one image each day. Selected from the hundreds taken daily by satellites, the featured image includes details written by NASA scientists putting the visual in context.

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2009 - 2010 "Image of the Day" Archive

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Old Ice in Arctic

Amount of old ice in Arctic hits
record low in February 2009 ...

atafu atoll tokelau

Atafu Atoll, Tokelau, Southern Pacific Ocean

wilkins ice bridge

Wilkins Ice Bridge ...

redoubtvolcano

Mt Redoubt Volcano, Alaska ...

antarctica

Antarctica ...

auckland

Auckland, New Zealand...

badwater

Lake Badwater, Death Valley ...

betsiboka

Betsiboka River Floods ...

chaiten

Chaiten Valley, Chile ...

erebus

Volcanic activity on Mt Erebus ...

gettysburg

Gettysburg National Military Park

greenland

Northern Hokkaido, Japan ...

greenland

Melting on Greenland Ice Cap ...

santabarbara

Santa Barbara, CA ...

wolfvolcano

Wolf Volcano, Galapagos Islands ...

Urbanization of Dubai

Urbanization of Dubai ...

Henrietta Island

Henrietta Island, Russia ...

View of Earth from MESSENGER

View of Earth from MESSENGER ...

yellowstone

Yellowstone recovers from 88 fires ...

test

Successful Launch of GOES-O ...

millenium island

Millennium Island, Kiribati ...

Arctic Sea Ice

Arctic Sea Ice, 2002 - 2003...

Antarctic Ozone Hole

Antarctic Ozone Hole: 79 - 08 ...

kamchatka peninsua

Kamchatka Peninsula ...

Morakot

Typhoon Morakot inundates Taiwan ...

Aqua_render

Flying Steady: Mission Control Tunes Up Aqua's Orbit ...

Heiltskuk Icefield

Heiltskuk Icefield, British Columbia ...

Hurricane Jimena

Hurricane Jimena ...

Solar Towers

Solar Towers near Seville, Spain ...

earthquake samoa

Earthquake of Samoa generates tsunami ...

Solar prominence

Solar Prominence ...

Spring bloom in New Zealand waters

Spring Bloom in New Zealand Waters...

Glacier-capped mountains in Tibet

Glacier-capped mountains in Tibet ...

Heavy snow in eastern china

Heavy snow in Eastern China ...

Tanzania Flooding

Flooding in Tanzania ...

Ice and Clouds in Bering Strait

Ice and Clouds in Bering Strait ...

GOES-PLaunch

GOES P satellite launches ...

texas

Houston, Texas at night ...

Fragments of Larsen B Ice Shelf ...

New Zealand

Greenstone waters, New Zealand ...

sunset_spacestation

Sunset seen from Int. Space Station ...

Neumayer Glacier

Neumayer Glacier, South Georgia Island...

Hurricane_Earl

Hurricane Earl - The astronaut view...

Barnes Ice Cap

Barnes Ice Cap, Baffin Is. Canada ...

Summer 2010

 

How warm was Summer 2010 ...

Providence

Urban Heat Islands ...

Pine Island

Channel beneath Pine Is. Glacier ...