Earth Science Picture of the Day

05/01/11 Sunspot 1190 and Solar Prominences

05/02/11 * Magellanic Penguin Colony at Punto Tombo, Argentina

05/03/11 Superior Mirage of Kaiserstuhl Mountain Range

05/04/11 Stacked Lenticular Cloud

05/05/11 Berlin at Night

05/06/11 Beach Strata

05/07/11 Milky Way from Northern Ireland

05/08/11 * Iridescence in a Dandelion Seed Head

05/09/11 Cliffs of San Eduardo del Mar

05/10/11 * Lighting Carlsbad Caverns

05/11/11 Hole Punch and Fall Streak Over Grimsby, U.K.

05/12/11 A Different Perspective of a Crepuscular Ray

05/13/11 Zabriskie Point in Death Valley

05/14/11 * Willamette Meteorite

05/15/11 Color of the Setting Sun

05/16/11 * True Color of the Moon

05/17/11 Contrasting Cloud Layers

05/18/11 Half Dome from Olmsted Point

05/19/11 Grand Teton, Mount Owen, and Uplifted Cambrian Shoreline

05/20/11 Leo Trio

05/21/11 Cedar of Lebanon

05/22/11 22-Degree Halo Above Meaford, Ontario

05/23/11 Isla Espiritu Santo Panorama

05/24/11 Erosion Around a Dud Artillery Shell

05/25/11 "Dinosaur Rock" in Petrified Forest National Park

05/26/11 Iridesence in Clouds Over Gran Paradiso National Park, Italy

05/27/11 Table Mountain in Fog

05/28/11 Tornado Close Encounter

05/29/11 Waterfall and Circumpolar Stars

05/30/11 Alexander’s Dark Band and Double Rainbow

05/31/11 Sea-foam Gems