Related: See all the best images of Earth from space In the astronaut photo ... However, there are no clouds in this image. Instead, what you can see is clouds passing high over the island ...

according to NASA's Earth Observatory. In the astronaut photo, Kol'tsevoye Lake looks as if it has been covered by low-lying clouds sitting at the bottom of the caldera. However, there are no ...

In the upper left corner of the image, a gap in the clouds is trailed by a series ... and the two phenomena are in no way connected, according to Earth Observatory. Dutch explorers first ...

Although they don't impact the surface directly, historical evidence and simulations suggest airbursts can pack a punch.

high clouds and cloud-free scenes result in warming of the Earth's atmosphere, as less energy escapes into space than arrives from the sun. For low clouds, it's the opposite, so their decline ...