Water
Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center - Earthshots
Aral Sea, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
We see a lot of change with 50 years of Landsat imagery, along with th...
Atchafalaya Delta, Louisiana, USA
The Mississippi River Delta region in southern Louisiana is losing lan...
Bear Glacier, Alaska, USA
Satellite images of Earth help us observe locations that can be diffic...
Black Rock Playa, Nevada, USA
In a desolate corner of Nevada, a playa surrounded by rugged mountains...
Breiðamerkurjökull Glacier, Iceland
The Breiðamerkurjökull glacier tongue, one of the largest in Iceland, ...
Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA
Along some coastlines, long, narrow islands stand guard. These barrier...
Cheyenne Bottoms, Kansas, USA
Cheyenne Bottoms in central Kansas is the largest inland wetland in th...
Columbia Glacier, Alaska, USA
Some landscape changes around the world happen at glacial pace—very sl...
Dead Sea, Israel, Jordan, West Bank
The water surface level of the Dead Sea is the lowest natural land or ...
Devils Lake, North Dakota, USA
Devils Lake in northeastern North Dakota is a closed basin lake. Locat...
Diamond Mines, Northwest Territories, Canada
The frozen tundra of northern Canada might not be the first place you’...
Filchner Ice Shelf, Antarctica
These images show the Filchner Ice Shelf on the coast of Antarctica th...
Garden City, Kansas, USA
These Landsat images feature the significant growth in the use of cent...
Gibe III Dam, Ethiopia
The great thing about hydropower is that it’s a renewable nonpolluting...
Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Ethiopia
The reservoir behind the largest hydropower plant in Africa has begun ...
Great Salt Lake, Utah, USA
These images show the dramatic effects of the Great Salt Lake's high w...
Gulf of Fonseca, Honduras and Nicaragua
Honduras is one of Latin America’s top producers of cultured shrimp. S...
Huang He Delta, China
The Huang He River in China is a wanderer. Its lower reaches have chan...
Hubbard Glacier, Alaska, USA
Unlike many glaciers in Alaska and around the world, Hubbard Glacier i...
Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Hurricane Katrina was one of the most intense and costliest hurricanes...
Iguazú, South America
On the border between Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina are some curious...
IJsselmeer, Netherlands
For centuries, people living in what is now the Netherlands have used ...
Ilısu Dam, Turkey
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers flow into the historical cradle of civ...
Illinois/Indiana, USA
These three Landsat 5 images show several rivers in southern Illinois ...
Imperial Valley, California, USA
These images show the Imperial Valley, on the border of California and...
Inland Delta of the Niger River, Mali
On the edge of the Sahara Desert lies one of the world’s most producti...
Isahaya Bay, Japan
This series of images of southwestern Japan shows how one change can h...
Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana, USA
Is Louisiana falling into the sea, or is the sea inundating Louisiana?...
Kara-Bogaz-Gol, Turkmenistan
The Kara-Bogaz-Gol (KBG) is a large, shallow lagoon of the Caspian Sea...
Lake Chad, West Africa
Lake Chad was once the sixth largest lake in the world, but prolonged ...
Lake Hamoun, Iran and Afghanistan
The Sistan Basin lies on the Iran-Afghanistan border. Melted snow from...
Lake Naivasha, Kenya
How do those in northern winter climates get roses to their loved ones...
Lake Powell, Utah and Arizona, USA
Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River was completed in 1963. It create...
Lake Thompson, South Dakota, USA
Many lakes in eastern South Dakota have expanded during the Landsat re...
Lake Turkana, Kenya and Ethiopia
Lake Turkana, formerly Lake Rudolf, lies in the Rift Valley of East Af...
Lake Urmia, Iran
Lake Urmia in Iran is another closed basin lake that has been shrinkin...
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Las Vegas, Nevada, is one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in...
Lesotho
South Africa needed water. Lesotho needed electricity. One huge projec...
Mamoré River, Bolivia
In the Amazon basin, some rivers run wild. With no dams or levees to c...
Mesopotamian Marshes, Iraq
Fifty years of observing the Earth means Landsat has witnessed many la...
Mille Lacs Lake, Minnesota, USA
What looks from above like a temporary geoglyph on the ice or a series...
Nile River Delta, Egypt
These images show the dramatic urban growth within the Nile River Delt...
Petermann Glacier, Greenland
Petermann Glacier made headline news in 2010 and again in 2012 when la...
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
From 1975 to 1978, Cambodia was ruled by the Khmer Rouge regime, which...
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Phoenix, Arizona, and its suburbs are growing rapidly, both in populat...
Saloum River, Senegal
The estuaries of the Saloum River, near the coast in Senegal, are surr...
Selkirk Island, Chile
In September 1999, engineers at EROS were reviewing Landsat 7 sensor o...
The Everglades and Miami, Florida, USA
Referred to as the “River of Grass,” the Florida Everglades is one of ...
Three Gorges Dam, China
The Three Gorges Dam in the Hubei province of China is a huge but high...
Toshka Project, Egypt
In southern Egypt, the sandy desert has turned into a lakes region. Be...
Wadi As-Sirhan Basin, Saudi Arabia
Oil and water don’t mix. But in the desert of Saudi Arabia, they do ha...