Earth Science Picture of the Day

Viewer's Choice May 2013

#1
Deep Blue Abyss on Godwin's Glacier

#2
Seismic-Resistant Features of Machu Picchu

#3
The Eiffel Lightning Rod

#4
Chondrite Thin Section

#5
Moqui Marbles and Martian Blueberries

• April 2013

  • Golden Spirals
  • Tarn and Moraine of Schoolroom Glacier
  • Deceptive Skies
  • Night Sky Observed from Paros Island, Greece
  • Campo Imperatore

• March 2013

  • February 24, 2013 Eruption of Sakurajima
  • Sikhote-Alin Iron Meteorite
  • Glomerocryst Photomicrograph
  • Comet PanSTARRS and Jet Contrail
  • Double Pink Rainbow Over Glen Ashley, South Africa

• February 2013

  • February 19, 2013 Eruption of Mount Etna
  • Gilded Light of Glen Canyon
  • Crossing the Snake
  • Iridescence and Corona
  • Polarized Window Frost

• January 2013

  • Tornadic Waterspouts off the Island of Rhodes, Greece
  • Triple Rainbows
  • The Cottian Alps in Alpenglow
  • Standing Wave Over Mitchell County, North Carolina
  • Frosty Feathers and Flowers

• December 2012

  • Kamchatka Ice Cave
  • Snow Crystal Symmetry
  • Picture Sandstones of the Utah-Arizona Borderlands
  • Green Aurora Over South Iceland
  • Seasons from Space

• November 2012

  • Magnificent Halo Display Over Huntsville, Alabama
  • Curtains of Northern Lights Above Jokulsarlon, Iceland
  • Roaring River Spring, Missouri
  • Alcantara River Gorge, Sicily
  • Solar Corona During the Total Solar Eclipse of August 1, 2008

• October 2012

  • Lightning Over Braunfels, Germany
  • Serpent and Stars
  • Painted Desert
  • Kilimanjaro Icefield in September 2012
  • Icelandic Aurora

• September 2012

  • Chemical Precipitation in the Rocky Mountains
  • Gulf of Corryvreckan Whirlpool
  • River Dreams
  • Shiprock, New Mexico
  • Lava Tree State Park, Hawaii

• August 2012

  • Sunset Above the Atlantic Ocean
  • Over Mount Baker
  • Providence Canyon
  • Going to the Sun Road and the Garden Wall
  • Geelong Roll Cloud

• July 2012

  • Haboob Near Phoenix, Arizona
  • Annular Solar Eclipse at Horseshoe Bend
  • Severe Storm Near Richmond, Virginia
  • Vegetation Lineaments
  • Halo Display Over Black Rapids Glacier, Alaska

• June 2012

  • Poetry Cave and Karst Landscape
  • Retreat of Mount Andromeda Glacier
  • Great Plains Severe Storm
  • Ice Rafted Boulder
  • Sunrise, Sunset Over Lake Myvatn, Iceland

• May 2012

  • Aurora Borealis from Barrow, Alaska
  • Brilliant Sun Pillar Over Jenison, Michigan
  • Water Drops, Daisies and Bumblebees
  • Solar Eclipse of May 20, 2012
  • Whirlpool Galaxy

• April 2012

  • Circumzenithal Arc and More Observed Over Florida Panhandle
  • Comet Garradd in 3-D
  • Cold Front at Sea
  • Giant's Causeway
  • Lightning Tree

• March 2012

  • Toroweap and Vulcan's Throne
  • Changing Face of a Sand Dune
  • Glacial Erratic
  • Tiny World in a Fallen Drop
  • Seeing Over the Horizon

• February 2012

  • Fire and Ice of Mount Etna
  • Lightning Display on Ikaria Island, Greece
  • Roll Cloud off Coast of Brazil
  • Fireball Over Corfu, Greece
  • Galatic Storm

• January 2012

  • Lenticular Display Over the Rocky Mountains of Colorado
  • The Cloudburst in West Texas
  • Flying Dutchmen
  • Phantom Ship and Crater Lake
  • Spider Tension Turns Caustic

• December 2011

  • Sector-like Plate Snow Crystal
  • The Parallel Roads of Glen Roy
  • Waterspout and Rainbow Odd Couple
  • Tides Near Port Orford, Oregon
  • Aletsch Glacier in Switzerland

• November 2011

  • Relection Rainbow Over Swan Bay, Victoria
  • Superior Mirage of Farallon Islands
  • Death Valley Dunes and Former Lake Bed
  • Roll Cloud, Shelf Cloud
  • Blue Color of Crater Lake

• October 2011

  • Pillar Over Hearst, Ontario
  • Green Flash on the Tyrrhenian Sea
  • Paper Moon
  • Veil of Virga Over Great Salt Lake
  • Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park

• September 2011

  • Walking on Air
  • Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Near Forsyth, Missouri
  • Sauropod Print in Dinosaur Valley State Park
  • Diamond Head Crater
  • Rainbow Over Piberbach, Austria

• August 2011

  • Total Solar Eclipse from the Perspective of Space
  • Lightning and Lunar Eclipse
  • Reunion Island Basalt
  • Cloud Shadow Band
  • Undulatus Asperatus Clouds

• July 2011

  • Glory, Spectre and FOG BOW on Reunion Island
  • Namib Desert Dunes
  • Thor's Hammer in Bryce Canyon National Park
  • Upper Antelope Slot Canyon
  • Lenticular Clouds Over Wales

• June 2011

  • Painted Hills in John Day Fossil Beds National Monument
  • Devils Postpile Tile Pattern
  • Lightning Storm Over Lisbon
  • Mammatus Clouds Above Edinburg, Scotland
  • Storm Cloud Over Northeastern Colorado

• May 2011

  • Williamette Meteorite
  • Lighting Carlsbad Caverns
  • True Color of the Moon
  • Magellanic Penguin Colony at Punto Tombo, Argentina
  • Iridescence in a Dandelion Seed Head

• April 2011

  • Pancake Ice on Leland River in Michigan
  • Hraunfossar Falls in Iceland
  • Iguazu Falls from Argentina
  • Hole Punch, Fallstreak and Sundog
  • Sognefjord

• March 2011

  • Skyscape
  • Full Moon Comparison
  • Waning Crescent Moon Over Poseidon Temple
  • Sunset, Atmospheric Refraction and Mirages
  • Ancient Mountains of Argentina

• February 2011

  • Six Months of Tracking the Sun Across the Sky
  • Paradise Bay, Antarctica
  • A Year from a Window in Oslo, Norway
  • Lester R. Davis State Forest
  • Bubbles in Lake Ice

• January 2011

  • Infinite Cave in Vietnam
  • Elakala Falls, West Virginia
  • Fireball Breakukp
  • Devils Postpile
  • Partial Solar Eclipse from The Netherlands

• December 2010

  • Eternal Flame Waterfall
  • Victoria Falls from Above
  • Mock Green Flash from Sunset Cliffs, California
  • Mount Robson
  • Big Spring, Missouri

• November 2010

  • Wind Storm on Georgian Bay
  • Landslide Recovery in Fiordlands National Park
  • Dew Bow in Field at Kämpfelbach, Germany
  • Haleakala National Park, Hawaii
  • Poker Jim Bathtub Ring

• October 2010

  • Waterspout Along Oregon Coast
  • Fulgurite
  • Repair Your Ball Marks!
  • Mushroom Rock
  • Azul Odd Rock

• September 2010

  • Summer Lightning Near Keota, Colorado
  • Flaming Gorge
  • Spicebush Swallowtail and Pipevine Swallowtail Butterflies
  • Dendritic Drainage, Braided Channels and Self-Similarity
  • Iguassu Waterfalls

• August 2010

  • Serra del Montsec
  • Mid-Atlantic Ridge in Iceland
  • Desert Bloom
  • Spotted Lake
  • Blue Spring, Missouri

• July 2010

  • Super Thunderstorm Above Athens
  • Mt. Semeru at Sunrise
  • Partial Lunar Eclipse of June 26, 2010
  • Shelf Cloud Over Southern Germany
  • Web Iridescence

• June 2010

  • Reticulite
  • Driftwood at La Push, Washington
  • Mimicry
  • Towering Cumulus Clouds
  • ISS Transit of the Sun

• May 2010

  • Moonrise with Green Rim
  • Skyglow Sources
  • Solar Prominence
  • Summer Storm Along the Shore
  • Reversing Falls

• April 2010

  • Aurora Above Churchill, Manitoba
  • Grand Falls, Arizona
  • Mouth of Hell
  • Sun Size and Altitude
  • Brazilian Passion Flower

• March 2010

  • Rainbow Rock
  • Near-Earth Object 2010 AL30
  • Snow Billows Above the Colorado Rockies
  • Bryce Canyon in Winter
  • Soft Sediment Deformation at Coyote Buttes

• February 2010

  • Superstitious Folding
  • Green Aurora Over Orsta, Norway
  • Hair Ice
  • Petra and Al Khazneh
  • Volcanic Bomb

• January 2010

  • Mount Rainier Ray and Sunrise
  • John Day National Monument
  • Alps and Valley Fog
  • Annular Eclipse of the Millennium
  • Swiss Stone Pine

• December 2009

  • Shimmer Tree
  • Cathedral Rock
  • Frost Crystals on Georgian Bay, Ontario
  • Bentley Hexagonal Plate Crystal
  • Mendenhall Glacier

• November 2009

  • Spectacular Copper Harbor Sunset
  • Crescent Moon and Poseidon Temple
  • Weeping Wall in Saline Canyon
  • View from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon
  • The Edible Wild

• October 2009

  • Lightning Above Athens
  • Bug Trails
  • Lost Waterfall
  • Brightness of the Space Shuttle
  • Red Admiral Migration

• September 2009

  • Equinox from Space
  • Frost Covered Spider Webs
  • Sun Pillar and Sundog
  • Marine Bioluminescence on Putuo Island
  • Riddle of the Sands