NASA's Natural Hazards Earth Observatory Website

Averting and or planning a strategy to avoid the frequent loss of life, utilities and possessions that occurs after and or during a devastating natural disaster is usually based on the amount of available time we get of critical information of a current disaster.

Due to the latest modern technology of NASA's high resolution cameras abroad satellites we all now have the opportunity to get the best of insights of currently occurring natural and or man-made catastrophes.

The picture above is from NASA's Earth Observatory website illustrating the natural hazards of earth on a an evening in 2012. From their website we at an one time can catch up and get the pictorial data of any particular naturally occurring and or man-made global disaster like; avalanches, blizzards, cyclones/hurricanes, earthquakes, floods/landslides, heat waves, lightning strikes, water and mud eruptions, tornadoes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and or wildfires/bush fires.

Absorbing Animated Evolution of the Moon

So far as we know for certain, Earth's only natural satellite, is the moon and its a cold, dry orb whose surface is studded with craters and strewn with rocks and dust.

Year in year out, the moon never seems to change. Craters and other formations appear to be permanent now, but the moon didn't always look like this.

Kind of like an imaginary planetary firework display, NASA's Goddard Multimedia team, has created an absorbing video animation of the last 4.5 billion years geological history of the moon, courtesy of NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Swiss Space Tech company developing satellite to capture space junk

Astro-scientists have for more than 10 years been concerned with what to do about the growing plethora of debris encircling earth.

Between Low Earth Orbit, 2000 km altitude and 35,786 km altitude or Geostationary Orbit are approximately 16,000 objects larger than 10 cm in diameter and hundreds of millions of smaller particles circumnavigating our planet at speeds of several kilometers per second.

On February 10, 2009, the U.S. satellite Iridium-33 exploded upon impact with the abandoned Russian satellite Cosmos-2251. This collision impacted with significant financial consequences, particularly for the insurance companies, but also adding much more junk for astro-technicians to monitor.

Devastating Tropical Cyclone Yasi Satellite & Radar time lapse video

The biggest category 5 cyclone in recorded history is presently beginning to batter the geography of far north Queensland coastal region, at a breadth of more than 200 kilometers. The nastiness is expected to penetrate the inland for at least another 3-400 kilometers, until if we can believe the meterologists, should begin to subside.

"This time lapse (video) uses false color infrared imagery from JMA's MTSAT geostationary satellite & radar data from the Australia BoM to track the path of the Tropical Cyclone Yasi as it forms and heads towards the Queensland Coast."



Environmental degradation, possible risks to human life and possessions are expected to deliver expotential ill outcomes.

For the most current versions of this satellite imagery, go here.