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Sources

All films and photographs on this site are works of the United States government and are in the public domain. Films are from NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS) and NASA Goddard; still photographs are from the NASA Image and Video Library (astronaut photography by NASA Johnson Space Center, Landsat imagery by NASA Goddard). Catalogue numbers below identify the original items.

Films

TitleSourceCatalogue
Gravity waves from the Hunga Tonga eruptionNASA SVSSVS 31277
Mount St. Helens, forty years of recoveryNASA Goddard / LandsatGSFC_20170518_MtStHelens_m12612_Timelapse
The 2016 Lamplugh Glacier landslideNASA SVSSVS 31042
Sea surface height anomaly, one yearNASA SVSSVS 5663
A three-dimensional look at the 2015 El NiñoNASA GoddardGSFC_20170526_ElNino_m12601_3D
The geoid: the shape of sea levelNASA SVSSVS 5660
Sea level through a portholeNASA SVSSVS 5620
The meandering UcayaliNASA SVS / LandsatSVS 15021
A braided river redraws its channelsNASA SVS / LandsatSVS 15034
The retreat of Mendenhall GlacierNASA SVS / LandsatSVS 15030
Breiðamerkurjökull recedesNASA SVS / LandsatSVS 15037
Erosion on the Beaufort Sea coastNASA SVS / LandsatSVS 15023
The retreating Alsek GlacierNASA SVS / LandsatSVS 15054
Hurricane Polo makes landfallNASA SVSSVS 5681
Super Typhoon BaviNASA SVSSVS 5662
Hurricane Erin forms in the AtlanticNASA SVSSVS 5575
Arctic sea ice minimum, 2026NASA SVSSVS 5677

Photographs

TitleSourceCatalogue
Onekotan, Kuril Islands, from the International Space StationNASA / JSCiss071e046421
Cleveland Volcano erupting, Aleutian IslandsNASA / JSCiss013e24184
Coastal region of South AfricaNASA / JSCiss071e580719
La Guajira Peninsula on the Caribbean SeaNASA / JSCiss073e0379768
Ocean sand, Bahamas (Landsat)NASA / GSFCGSFC_20171208_Archive_e001879
Icefall, Lambert Glacier, Antarctica (Landsat)NASA / GSFCGSFC_20171208_Archive_e002161
Desert patterns (Landsat)NASA / GSFCGSFC_20171208_Archive_e001945
Cape Cod and the southern New England coastlineNASA / JSCiss074e0671775

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