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A dramatic satellite view of the Mediterranean:
A sweeping #SaharanDust arc intrudes between cloud bands, staining the sea in muted browns. The contrast reveals active #atmospheric dynamics—desert aerosols sculpted by winds🌬 beneath layered clouds. ☁️🟤🌊

🛰 #NASA
🌍 worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov

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⚠️Iraq sandstorms: The dual threat of #ClimateChange.

Lack of rain, rising temperatures, drying wetlands & lakes show how environmental collapse knows no borders.
What starts at the Iraq wetlands spreads across the region. #ClimateCrisis #MiddleEast

🛰Meteosat @eumetsat.int
✂️Via @zoom.earth

🛰Meteosat @eumetsat.int
✂️Visualized @zoom.earth

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Satellite imagery shows a #Saharan dust plume moving from Mauritania into the Atlantic. Strong northeasterly trade winds lift and transport dry boundary-layer #dust offshore. Filamented margins indicate wind shear, mixing with marine stratocumulus, and reduced visibility. #AirQuality 📅 2026 Jan 07

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🛰 #Sentinel2
🛰 #NASA
🌍 #worldview

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Satellite imagery captures a ~255 km pollution plume from Iraq’s Wasit Power Station. Such persistence signals fine PM and reactive gases surviving long-range transport, driving regional aerosol loading, ecosystem stress, and diffuse health impacts far beyond the source—visible only from space.

A strong 6.5-magnitude #earthquake⚡️ struck southwestern #Mexico on January 2, 2026, causing entire buildings 🏣 to sway near the San Marcos area in Guerrero.

🎬X @RapidReport

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No borders, No wars — just peace for everyone on #Earth.🌏🕊

Happy New Year, Earth🎆🎇

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#Argentina: A massive power outage hit #BuenosAires and surrounding suburbs late Tuesday, Dec 30. As a heatwave grips the region ahead of #NewYear’s Eve, NASA’s nighttime imagery reveals large areas plunged into darkness across the metro area. 🎄⚡️🌑

🛰 #NASA
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This #DustStorm again covers the same SE Iran–Makran–Gulf of Oman region affected ~2 months ago, with similar or greater intensity. Such repetition points to sustained dry surfaces and recurring wind patterns, not a random or isolated event. #AirQuality #Dust

🛰 #NASA
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Satellite Data:🛰
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Satellite observations show distinct pollution plumes from heavy fuel oil " #mazut 🏭" combustion at major power plants in western and central #Iran. These emissions accumulate over the Tehran–Qom basin, intensifying regional haze and #AirQuality degradation.

#MazutBurning #AirPollution #PM25

🛰Meteosat @cira-csu.bsky.social @noaa.gov
✂️Visualized @zoom.earth

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This animation shows a #DustStorm blowing out of the Gobi Desert of Mongolia.

Clouds form a giant swirl where the borders of #Mongolia and #China meet. Although clouds obscure much of the #dust and the landscape below. Clear skies allowing a view of the area where the plumes originate

#AirQuality

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🚨 CCTV📹 footage from a supermarket🛒 shows the moment a powerful M6.1 #earthquake⚡️ hit Taitung City, #Taiwan.
📼X: @trtworld
#EarthquakeTaiwan

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Sometimes clouds look familiar, shaped by our imagination and state of mind.🧠✨ This one caught my eye—it looks like a gorilla’s face to me.☁️🦍 I often stumble upon these shapes by chance, and that’s what makes them fascinating.☁️☁️☁️
🛰 #NASA 🌍 #worldview

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This images, captured by the 🛰 #Landsat on December 23, 2025. shows the Sediment and mud, caused by the heavy rains, can be seen gushing from the Mond River, #Iran , into #PersianGulf.

✂️Visualized: 🌍 eos.com/landviewer

Some drivers seem to treat flash #floods like a casual shortcut. This truck is crossing a flooded road as if gravity and rushing water don’t exist. Hint: they do. Turn back. Find safety. Risking your life for a few meters isn’t brave—it’s foolish.

At that time, little attention was paid to the images of the volcanic ash cloud captured by the Sentinel #satellite.

The black-and-white image: sentinel satellite.

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Off Western #Australia, long-period swells slam into a sudden shallow reef, forcing the wave’s energy upward instead of forward. The result is a rare vertical wall of water and a thunderous roar—often mistaken for an earthquake, but caused purely by wave physics. 🌊🕳

source @abcnews

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#BlackSky and #HEO teamed up to image five visiting spacecraft at the #ISS—highlighting the power of capturing brief, high-value moments in orbit.

X: @BlackSky_Inc @heospace