An astonishing new map has revealed the elevation of nearly every place on Earth. The Global Digital Elevation Model was created using nearly 1.3million images collected by a Japanese camera on board ...

An instrument called the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) has been taking pictures of Earth since it launched into space in 1999. In that time, it has ...

High sediment load in the Hugli River Delta, India, is evident by the light tan colors in the water, particularly downstream from off-shore islands. The deep green colors of some of these islands are ...

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Eruptions from one of the most active volcanic regions in the world sent plumes of ash and steam into the sky this week, as captured in a spectacular image by an Earth-monitoring satellite.

The Yellowstone volcano is located in the Yellowstone National Park, between the US states of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho.The caldera is labelled a supervolcano due to its capability to inflict ...

Exploration field geoscientists have reported the existence of negative thermal anomalies over oil fields and have suggested that thermal profiling can be a useful, cost-effective tool for oil ...