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.
The Multi-angle Imaging Spectrodiometer (MISR) instrument on NASA’s Terra satellite acquired an image of a large wildfire on the Island of Madeira, part of the autonomous region of Portugal. Madeira’s capital city, Funchal, also caught fire, burning homes and leading to the evacuation of a thousand people. Read more on JPL’s Photojournal.