The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, located in Katmai National Park, forms a unique and ashen landscape. Encircled by volcanoes – both active and inactive – it has served as a perfect collection area for huge amounts of volcanic ash.

Water departments in the West are using maps and models originally created by a NASA team to help track water.

NASA and Google broadened an existing partnership to help local governments improve their monitoring and prediction of air quality for better decision making.