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Carbon Monoxide levels over Southeast Asia

Stagnant Skies in Southeast Asia

Sensors on Aqua, Suomi-NPP, and NOAA-20 detected fires and poor air quality across Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and other countries in early April 2026.
Worldview Image of the Week
April 10, 2026
This map shows TEMPO observations of nitrogen dioxide plumes over Los Angeles County on January 8, 2025, during the Palisades and Eaton Fires.

TEMPO Data Available as ArcGIS Image Services

Several pollutants measured by TEMPO are available as ArcGIS image services, including nitrogen dioxide vertical column troposphere, formaldehyde vertical column, ozone total column, and cloud fraction.
News
April 1, 2026
False-color reflectance image of the eruption of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano on 10 March 2026 from the VIIRS instrument aboard the joint NASA/NOAA NOAA-21 satellite.

Eruption of Hawaii's Kilauea

The VIIRS instrument aboard the NOAA-21 platform captured this image on March 10, 2026.
Worldview Image of the Week
March 13, 2026
OPERA RTC SAR Backscatter image of flooding in Mozambique on 24 January 2026 from the C-Band SAR instrument aboard the Sentinel-1 satellite.

Flooding in Mozambique

Image captured on December 18, 2025, by the C-Band SAR instrument aboard ESA's Sentinel-1A platform.
Worldview Image of the Week
Jan. 29, 2026
True-color corrected reflectance image of smoke from fires in Patagonia, Argentina on 8 January 2026 from the MODIS instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite

Fires in Patagonia, Argentina

Image captured on January 8, 2026, by the MODIS instrument aboard the Terra platform.
Worldview Image of the Week
Jan. 8, 2026
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