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.
Do you like clouds? Like to help scientists look at MODIS data a little differently…from below? Then join citizen scientists around the globe in the Fall Cloud Challenge. Download the GLOBE Observer app, after registering, tap the clouds protocol icon, and then follow the prompts within the app. Before you know it, you’ll be a cloud expert and be providing valuable data from the ground about what’s up in your sky. The Fall Cloud Challenge runs October 15 – November 15, 2019.