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Heavy rains flood southern Mozambique, affecting at least 600,000 people — Assets.science.nasa.gov

Heavy rains flood southern Mozambique, affecting at least 600,000 people

Weeks of intense rain in December and January have inundated southern Mozambique, displacing hundreds of thousands and affecting at least 600,000 people, NASA Earth Observatory reported. NASA imagery shows the scale of the flooding: the MODIS instrument on the Aqua satellite captured a false-color image of floodwaters moving down

Winter storms bury Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula under meters of snow — Assets.science.nasa.gov

Winter storms bury Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula under meters of snow

Intense winter storms in December and January have dumped heavy snow across Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, leaving the regional capital Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky at a standstill, according to a NASA Earth Observatory report. News reports cited in the NASA article say more than 2 meters of snow fell in the first two

Fish-shaped clouds photographed over Lago Argentino likely lenticular, NASA scientists say — Assets.science.nasa.gov

Fish-shaped clouds photographed over Lago Argentino likely lenticular, NASA scientists say

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station photographed a group of fish-shaped clouds hovering over Lago Argentino in Patagonia on December 27, 2025. Determining the clouds' type and origin from the photograph alone is challenging, but several NASA scientists and university researchers offered a theory after reviewing the image.

Satellite maps show rising wildfire activity across the far north — Assets.science.nasa.gov

Satellite maps show rising wildfire activity across the far north

Satellite-based maps from NASA show wildland fires in the far north have become more frequent and widespread, with the largest increases occurring in northern Eurasia. The maps use fire detections from the MODIS sensors on NASA’s Aqua and Terra satellites and compare detections from 2002–2012 (yellow) with 2012–

Hurricane Melissa stirred a vast bright-blue carbonate plume south of Jamaica — Assets.science.nasa.gov

Hurricane Melissa stirred a vast bright-blue carbonate plume south of Jamaica

Hurricane Melissa, which made landfall in Jamaica on October 28, 2025 as a category 5 storm with sustained winds of 295 kilometers per hour (185 miles per hour), churned carbonate sediment off the island and produced a bright-blue plume visible in satellite images on October 30, 2025. NASA’s Terra

Antonio Viudez‑Mora adapts CAM6 to assimilate MODIS and VIIRS aerosols for CERES — Nasa.gov

Antonio Viudez‑Mora adapts CAM6 to assimilate MODIS and VIIRS aerosols for CERES

Antonio Viudez‑Mora is a contractor with the Surface and Atmospheric Radiation Budget (SARB) CERES working group, where he is adapting the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM6) to assimilate and nudge MODIS and VIIRS aerosol retrievals for CERES Edition‑5. Viudez‑Mora earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from the