Earth Science Picture of the Day

02/19/12 Rainbow Over Korbach, Germany

02/18/12 Badlands Mirage

02/17/12 Niagara Falls in Winter

02/15/12 Jacob's Ladder

02/12/12 Fire and Ice of Mount Etna

02/11/12 Bitter Cold Grips Europe

02/04/12 Blue Ice Crystals

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

01/29/12 Oil Platform in the Strait of Hormuz

01/14/12 Stickleback Iridescent Cloud

01/13/12 * Cloudburst in West Texas

01/12/12 Solstice to Solstice Look at the Sky in 2011

01/10/12 * Flying Dutchmen

12/30/11 Brocken Spectre and Glory from Northern Italy

12/22/11 Virga and Rainfall Traces

12/16/11 * Waterspout and Rainbow Odd Couple

12/15/11 Rainbow Over Nordlingen, Germany

12/06/11 Sunlight Through Foggy Canopy

11/26/11 Whitecaps on Bark Lake

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

10/05/11 Sun Cups on the Lemon Creek Glacier

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

09/14/11 West Riverside, Montana Wildfire

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

08/22/11 * Undulatus Asperatus Clouds

08/20/11 Extended Virga Streak

08/06/11 Fist of an Angry Cloud

08/03/11 * Lightning and Lunar Eclipse

07/26/11 * Lenticular Clouds Over Wales

07/16/11 Glitter from Aloft

07/03/11 Contrail Transformation

06/28/11 Double Rainbow Above Caen, France

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

05/24/11 Erosion Around a Dud Artillery Shell

05/03/11 Superior Mirage of Kaiserstuhl Mountain Range

04/27/11 Ice-Out on Sebago Lake

04/23/11 Window Glass Frost Crystals

04/06/11 Little Alpine Planet

03/26/11 Fern Frost

03/11/11 Ice Crystal Formation Near Anchorage, Alaska

03/04/11 Haleakala Sunrise

02/09/11 * Six Months of Tracking the Sun Across the Sky

01/29/11 Waves of Fog

01/28/11 Complex Frost Crystal in Silkeborg, Denmark

01/21/11 Weather Balloon Launch into the Stratosphere