This 2023 satellite photo shows the heart-shaped Spirit Lake, which was transformed by the cataclysmic eruption of Mount St.

A little-known volcano on a remote Pacific island may have been the source of one of the 19th century’s most powerful ...

There are two active volcanoes in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, Mauna Loa and Kilauea, but Kilauea is the real "must-see." A 4,000-foot-tall mountain, Kilauea has been active since Jan. 3, 1983.

The Caspian Sea, currently facing threats, has been in the news for a different reason: the emergence and subsequent ...

Update on February 5, 2025: This Landsat image shows the Zavaritskogo (also called Zavaritskii) caldera in the Kuril Archipelago, between northern Japan and Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula.

An island emerges from the waters, then vanishes, as if it never existed. In the Caspian Sea, this phenomenon has been repeating for over a century, defying expectations and captivating ...

(NASA Earth Observatory images by Wanmei Liang, using Landsat data from the US Geological Survey) The island is located at the tip of the Kumani bank mud volcano, located underwater off the coast of ...

The NASA Earth Observatory has released a series of images taken with the Operational Land Imager (OLI) and OLI-2 instruments on the Landsat 8 and 9 satellites, in which you can see the birth and ...

and OLI-2 instruments on the Landsat 8 and 9 satellites, in which you can see the birth and decay of a new island. In the first image from November 2022, the underwater mud volcano is solidly ...

The wisps of "sea smoke" blowing above the Pine Island glacier would typically be a sight obfuscated by clouds. But on Oct. 10, the U.S. Geological Survey's Landsat 8 satellite, which NASA helped ...

New Zealand’s Whakaari/White Island, a continuously active volcano, was recently photographed by Landsat 9 during a phase of increased activity. Although only minor ash emissions have been reported, ...