Considering the globe as a whole, high clouds and cloud-free scenes result in warming of the Earth's atmosphere, as less energy escapes into space than arrives from the sun. For low clouds ...

The data reveals the density of ice, snow, and rain in the cloud, as well as the speed with which these particles are falling to Earth ... around the whole globe, not just at a handful of ground ...

The official numbers are in: 2024 is the hottest year on record. Climate change is the main culprit. But there might be ...

according to NASA's Earth Observatory. In the astronaut photo, Kol'tsevoye Lake looks as if it has been covered by low-lying clouds sitting at the bottom of the caldera. However, there are no ...

The Floating Earth is a 10m (33ft) wide model of the globe and is now on display at Queen’s Valley. It's made up of NASA images of the earth taken from space and has been created by artist Luke ...

For more on the satellites that keep their eyes on Earth, visit NOAA’s Satellite and Information Service. This section contains a cloud gallery with 260 beautiful images of a range of 10 cloud ...

But if clouds are cut out of the Earth's water cycle, that water just hangs around in the air, creating close to 100% humidity. If you were to get on a flight, you might experience more turbulence ...

Recent examples of more extreme rainfall have become evident in more flooding scattered over the globe in the last years ... this discrepancy and found that clouds were the culprit.