Maya ruins in Tikal, Guatemala

The Sciences

Maya Water System Discoveries Show the Ancient Civilization in a New Light

Super Typhoon Goni 

Planet Earth

Super Typhoon Goni Churns Toward the Philippines as the Globe's Strongest Storm of 2020

Gargantuan Smoke Plume 

Environment

The Western Wildfire Cataclysm Looks as Bad From Space as on the Ground — Maybe Worse

GOES-16 View of Hurricane Laura - Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies

Watch These Vivid Views From Space as the Cyclonic Buzzsaw of Hurricane Laura Cut Into the Coast

Mark Serreze on one of the St. Patrick Bay Ice Caps

Going, Going, GONE: Two Arctic Ice Caps Have Disappeared

Lightning Bolt

A 440-mile-long "Megaflash" Enters the Record Books as the Longest Lightning Bolt Ever Observed

Saharan Dust Cloud

Giant Saharan Dust Cloud Blowing Over the Atlantic is Visible From a Million Miles Away in Space

New Orleans and the Mississippi River Delta

Drowning of the Marshes Protecting New Orleans is ‘Inevitable,’ New Research Shows

Tropical Cyclone Amphan

Super Cyclonic Storm Amphan Threatens Catastrophic Storm Surge in India and Bangladesh 

Mesoscale Convective System - CIRA

Monster Thunderstorm Cluster Charging from Kansas to Texas is Captured in Astonishing Satellite Views

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遥感

玛雅水系统的新发现以全新视角展现了古代文明

超强台风“ गोनी”正向菲律宾移动，成为2020年全球最强风暴

西部野火灾难从太空看和在地面上一样糟糕——甚至更糟

观看这些来自太空的生动景象，飓风劳拉像一个旋风锯齿般切入海岸线。

消失，消失，不见了：两座北极冰盖已消失

长达440英里的“巨闪”进入记录册，成为有史以来观测到的最长闪电

巨大的撒哈拉尘埃云横跨大西洋，在一百万英里外的太空清晰可见

保护新奥尔良的湿地正在“不可避免地”被淹没，新研究显示

超级气旋“安凡”威胁印度和孟加拉国引发灾难性风暴潮

从堪萨斯州到德克萨斯州的巨大雷暴群被惊人的卫星图像捕捉到

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