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May 12, 2026 Weekly News Latest Images of the Day View the Image of the Day archive Australia’s Cloudy Beauty Valley fog gathered in the Victorian Alps while an arch-shaped cloud drifted across Port Phillip Bay. Color Off the Mid-Atlantic Coast Something is brewing in shallow waters offshore of Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia. Tracy Arm’s Post-Tsunami Landscape A landslide-triggered tsunami stripped vegetation from the shore of the glacial fjord in summer 2025. A Sea of Spinning Clouds Icy, isolated Peter I Island stirred up a show in the atmosphere off the West Antarctic coast. Melting Snow Off Shivelyuch Near-constant activity continues on the volcano in Russia. May 2026 Satellite Puzzler Your challenge is to tell us the location of the satellite image and why it is interesting. Can you guess the location? More from NASA Earth Science NASA’s C-20A Flights Advance Understanding of Earthquake Dynamics NASA’s C-20A aircraft completed a series of flights on April 29 over Central California to contribute new data to improve the accuracy of the region’s earthquake models and support NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar), the U.S.-India satellite mission launched last year to track hazards, monitor ecosystems and crops, and measure change in ice sheets and glaciers. May 8, 2026 Natural Events This Week's Natural Event Images View the natural events archive Tracy Arm’s Post-Tsunami Landscape A landslide-triggered tsunami stripped vegetation from the shore of the glacial fjord in summer 2025. Melting Snow Off Shivelyuch Near-constant activity continues on the volcano in Russia. NASA Earth Observatory Where every day is Earth day Visit science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory Follow NASAEarth   NASA Earth Science Division