It’s important to understand how pyrocumulonimbus clouds form and connect with the atmosphere, because their smoke can affect climate and weather far from the fires that produced them.
Using data from NASA-funded archives, astronomers have confirmed a world that’s less than a million years old as the youngest known planet. The baby planet, called Elias 2-24 b, is still whirling in its natal disk of dust and gas.
If Earth were a hard marble, its center of mass would stay in the middle – but in reality, the center shifts as seasons move water, ice, and air around the planet.
USGS monitors, studies, and supports landslide research across the United States, striving to better understand these hazards while also helping communities nationwide become more resilient to the threat landslides pose.
