Earth Science Picture of the Day

05/03/13 Sunset at Dog Rocks

04/28/13 Half Illuminated Sun

04/04/13 Hole Punch Cloud and Fallstreak Over Gold River, California

03/16/13 Fog in the Padanian Valley of Italy

03/12/13 Fire in the Clouds

01/23/13 * Standing Wave Over Mitchell County, North Carolina

01/19/13 Foggy Morning in Greensboro, North Carolina

01/16/13 Hole Punch and Fallstreaks Over Paris

12/20/12 Nacreous Clouds over Beauly, Scotland

10/23/12 Lenticular Sunrise Over Virgin River Gorge

09/11/12 Mount McKinley Lenticular Clouds

08/19/12 Pileus Cloud Over Northern Georgia

06/21/12 Pyrocumulus Cloud Over the Colorado Rockies

06/20/12 Distant Storm Viewed from Chiclana de la Frontera, Spain

06/12/12 Anvil Cloud Over Bangalore, India

05/22/12 Mammatus Clouds Over South Central Germany

04/13/12 Glaciating Cirrus Clouds

03/28/12 Summer Pileus Cloud Over Central New York State

03/18/12 Cirrocumulus Sky Over Missouri

03/01/12 Twin Waterspouts

02/16/12 Split Sunset

01/30/12 * Lenticular Display Over the Rocky Mountains of Colorado

01/14/12 Stickleback Iridescent Cloud

12/22/11 Virga and Rainfall Traces

12/16/11 * Waterspout and Rainbow Odd Couple

11/24/11 Glaciating Altocumulus Clouds Over Port Orchard, Washington

11/23/11 Lenticular Sky at Sunrise

11/20/11 Crepuscular Ray Over Abilene, Texas

11/19/11 Crepuscular Rays above Van Buren, Arkansas

10/18/11 Pileus Cloud Above Roswell, Georgia

10/04/11 * Veil of Virga Over Great Salt Lake

09/28/11 Cloud Carpet Across the Alps

09/27/11 Cloud Fingers Over Tracy, California

09/21/11 Colorado Storm Clouds

09/07/11 Clouds at Night Comparison

09/06/11 Cap Cloud Over Mt. Blanc, France

08/22/11 * Undulatus Asperatus Clouds

08/21/11 Olympic Mountains Rain Shadow

08/20/11 Extended Virga Streak

08/08/11 * Cloud Shadow Band

08/06/11 Fist of an Angry Cloud

07/26/11 * Lenticular Clouds Over Wales

07/13/11 Mammatus Clouds above Newland, North Carolina

06/23/11 Iridescent Clouds Above Kilcoy, Australia

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

05/17/11 Contrasting Cloud Layers

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

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

05/04/11 Stacked Lenticular Cloud

04/13/11 * Hole Punch, Fallstreak and Sundog