Earth Observatory: What’s New Week of January 3, 2023




Happy 2023 from NASA’s Earth Observatory Group! As the Earth Observatory enters its 24th year, we want to thank all of you — our dedicated subscribers — for your continued readership. We continue to practice our craft of producing stories and visuals that highlight the work of NASA’s Earth science community, and we enjoy sharing them with you. We look forward to another year together. A few selected stories from 2022, clockwise from top left: The Changing Seas of the Florida Keys, Sizing up Mauna Loa’s Lava Flows, Assembling Australia, and The Freezing Snowy Nightmare Before Christmas.


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		Floodwater Inundates North-Central California Heavy rain and levee breaches triggered flooding in parts of Sacramento and the Bay Area.

		Ireland's Cutaway Peatlands Peatlands have been mined in Ireland for centuries, but concern for climate is changing how they are managed.

		Racing to Mine Lithium One way of harvesting the valuable metal involves the use of evaporation ponds that concentrate the substance into lithium-rich brines.

		Small Gray Dots A spacecraft designed to explore asteroids near Jupiter also looked back at Earth, acquiring distant views of our Moon and home planet.

		Kashmir Valley Haze A mixture of smog, smoke, and dust hung over the ancient lake basin surrounded by the Himalayas.

		Great Lakes Dressed for Winter Land and water were decorated with snow and ice when astronauts looked down on the region in February 2022.

		China's Celestial Mountains Glaciers on these heavenly mountains are a source of freshwater for farmers in Central Asia.

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