By Sheetal Kumari | March 28, 2025
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A 2022 satellite image shows smoke billowing from the caldera of Tofua, indicating an “imminent threat” from the volcanic island.
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A 2019 satellite photo shows the vanishing of Iceland’s Okjökull, the first glacier to be officially pronounced dead as a result of human-induced climate change.
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A 2022 satellite image shows discolored water from Kavachi volcano’s eruption, which likely disrupts the sharks that normally inhabit the area.
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A 2023 space agency photo shows ancient “star dunes” in Morocco’s Erg Chebbi, slowly migrating over centuries.
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A 2022 astronaut image captures a rare “sunglint” making the Mediterranean sparkle like a silver mirror near Greece’s Milos and Antimilos islands.
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A 2021 Google Maps image showed a mysterious dark patch in the Pacific, sparking rumours, but it was a small island with dense tree cover.
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A 2023 satellite photo snags Spirit Lake, reconfigured by Mount St. Helens’ catastrophic 1980 eruption.
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A 2022 satellite image takes in Mount Vesuvius, one of the planet’s most perilous volcanoes, bursting forth out of an unusual hole in the clouds.
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A stunning composite picture, taken from three years’ worth of satellite images, shows Libya’s Haruj volcanic field with ancient lava flanked by golden sand patches.
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A 2022 satellite photo shows a shiny streak of dried, chemical-contaminated mud from a wastewater flood that hit a South African mining community, killing three.