Earth Science Picture of the Day

09/12/12 What is a fault?

09/09/12 Alluvial Fan, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

09/01/12 Hubbard Glacier, Alaska

08/30/12 Basalt Columns off the Isle of Staffa, Scotland

08/27/12 * Providence Canyon

08/22/12 Nodosaur Footprint Found at Goddard Space Flight Center

08/21/12 Edinburgh Castle

08/20/12 Great Falls of the Potomac and the Potomac River Gorge

08/14/12 Luberon Valley and Ochre Cliffs of Southeastern France

08/13/12 The Chugwater Formation

08/11/12 Antelope Canyon Entrance

08/06/12 Evaporation Ponds Near Great Salt Lake

08/03/12 Mavericks Surf

08/02/12 Land of Green and Yellow

08/01/12 Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone from Artist Point

07/30/12 * Annular Solar Eclipse at Horseshoe Bend

07/28/12 High Altitude Balloon Flight Over Mount Olympus, Greece

07/27/12 Yosemite National Park, Tunnel View

07/26/12 Unconformity at Frijoles Canyon in Bandelier National Monument

07/25/12 * Haboob Near Phoenix, Arizona

07/20/12 Mature and Youthful Landscapes in the United States

07/19/12 Lembert Dome, Yosemite National Park

07/05/12 High Cup Nick

07/04/12 Hebgen Lake Fault Scarp

06/28/12 Precious Water for the Southwestern U.S.

06/26/12 * Retreat of Mount Andromeda Glacier

06/25/12 * Ice Rafted Boulder

06/22/12 Neolithic Rock Paintings in Somaliland

06/18/12 United Kingdom and Ireland from the DMC-2 Satellite

06/15/12 * Poetry Cave and Karst Landscape

06/09/12 Turkish Pine in the White Mountains of Crete

06/06/12 Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes: 100th Anniversary of Katmai Eruption

06/03/12 Daniel Boone National Forest

05/23/12 Socotra, Yemen

05/21/12 Mount Cervino and Blue Lake

05/20/12 Offset Fault in Death Valley

05/17/12 Rhyolite Pinnacles

05/16/12 Driftwood in Iceland

05/13/12 Breaking Waves at Catania, Sicily

05/12/12 Stars Valley on Qeshm Island, Iran

05/03/12 Sunset Point, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

04/28/12 Prutas Peak, Montenegro

04/26/12 * Giant's Causeway

04/23/12 Volcanic Lagoon on Somuncura Plateau in Argentina

04/21/12 Scots Pines in Central Spain

04/20/12 2012 Eruption of Mount Etna

04/12/12 Lake Effect Snow Clouds

04/10/12 Sugar Shack

04/03/12 Karst and Karrens in Albania

04/02/12 Morning Light Along Antarctica’s Gerlache Strait