An astronaut on the International Space Station snapped this photograph of Hurricane Earl as a Category 4 storm on August 30, 2010.

This profile of the atmosphere provides a rare view of a towering fire-formed thunderstorm and the smoke it injected high into the atmosphere.

Acquired August 21, 2010, this natural-color image shows the Chenab River, near the city of Multan, Pakistan, in flood.

This astronaut photograph shows Mataiva Atoll, the westernmost atoll of the Tuamotu Archipelago.

Acquired July 7, 2010, and August 23, 2010, these natural-color images show slight changes in a landslide lake along the Hunza River in northwestern Pakistan.

These images show towering clouds and intense rain in Hurricane Danielle as the storm was intensifying into a major hurricane on August 27, 2010.

Acquired August 18, 2010, and August 22, 2002, these natural-color images show changes on the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf on Canada’s Ellesmere Coast.

More than 148,900 fire detections are in this image of Brazil and Bolivia from August 23, 2010.

The heavily crevassed terminus of Kong Oscar Glacier in northwestern Greenland crumbles into a mélange of icebergs in the Davis Strait.

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NASA scientist Jon Ranson and his team continue to brave the wilds of western Siberia in their quest for data related to climate change and the carbon budget.

Rounding out our releases of imagery from the Earth Observatory through Google Earth, you may now view images from the past two months in our "Recent Images" layer. Add it to your bookmarks in Google Earth to keep abreast of new images.

This false-color image shows a surge of flood water approaching the city of Hyderabad in southern Pakistan on August 19, 2010.

Taken on July 31, 2010, this astronaut photograph shows an industrialized area of Turkey at the eastern edge of the Sea of Marmara.

Acquired August 16, 2010, this natural-color image shows the ice island that calved off the Petermann Glacier slowly migrating down the fjord.

This color-coded map shows how plant growth and the carbon plants store changed between 2000 and 2009.

This detailed image, taken by the commercial WorldView-2 satellite on August 10, 2010, shows the path of a large mudslide through the Chinese city of Zhouqu.

The muddy, swollen Indus River surges past an irrigation structure in southern Pakistan in this Landsat image from August 12, 2010.

This color-coded map shows temperature anomalies for July 2010. Areas with above-average temperatures appear in shades of red, and areas with below-normal temperatures appear in shades of blue.

Acquired August 7, 2010, this natural-color image shows fires burning along deforested areas and roads near Porto Velho, Brazil.