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March 10, 2026 Weekly News Latest Images of the Day View the Image of the Day archive Shades of a Lunar Eclipse A series of nighttime satellite images revealed how moonlight reaching Earth varied throughout a total lunar eclipse. Lake Coatepeque Set amid El Salvador’s modern, active volcanic landscape, tranquil blue waters fill a caldera formed by ancient eruptions. Ailing “Megaberg” Sparks Surge of Microscopic Life As Iceberg A-23A disintegrated, it shed meltwater that helped fuel an extensive phytoplankton bloom in the South Atlantic Ocean. A Little Town with a Long Name A NASA luminary from the Apollo era grew up in Wales near Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. Searching for Selenite Oklahoma’s Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge attracts rare and diverse species—and enthusiasts looking for a distinct type of crystallized gypsum. More from NASA Earth Science US-French Satellite Takes Stock of World’s River Water In a first, a space mission led by NASA and France has tracked Earth’s rivers swelling and shrinking from month to month over the course of a year and found significantly less of a swing than previous model-based estimates. NASA’s ER-2 Aircraft Captures Moonlight to Calibrate Space Sensors A NASA instrument designed to measure moonlight to help satellite sensors make more accurate measurements. NASA Earth Observatory Where every day is Earth day Visit science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory Follow NASAEarth   NASA Earth Science Division

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