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The high-water marks set by the Big Sioux River in cities across southeastern South Dakota have threatened to overtake records set 50 years ago, when the Army Corps of Engineers led missions to document the damage through hundreds of aerial photographs.

Modern paleontology began with the 1858 discovery by William Parker Foulke at Haddonfield, New Jersey of the nearly complete skeleton of a dinosaur called Hadrosaurus.

Capital Trenton

Image Source Landsat 8

Population 9,288,994

Did you know that nearly 50 percent of the United States population lives within a 500-mile radius of Columbus, Ohio? Columbus is the state capital and Ohio’s largest city. It is also home to The Ohio State University.

Capital Columbus

Image Source Landsat 8

Image of the 2018 Eruption of the Kilauea Volcano taken from a UAS at night

UAS ground control station at the 2018 eruption of the Kilauea Volcano

Map of Alaska showing probability (%) of change occurrence. Insets show fire boundaries from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Large Fire Database and Landsat 8 imagery (bottom right; 2016) north of Fairbanks, Alaska.

(A) The Creek Fire perimeter within the San Carlos Apache Reservation in east-central Arizona and (B) the various fuel treatments within the Creek Fire boundary, using the boundary in Wu et al.

Six flags have flown over Texas: Spain, France, United Mexican States, Confederate States of America, the Republic of Texas, and the United States of America, with eight changes of government.

Capital Austin

Image Source Landsat 8

Population 29,145,505

Landsat image of ice caps in northern Savernaya Zemlya, Russian Arctic Islands (80 degrees N.). The scene shows zones of melting on the ice caps. The largest ice cap is about 80 km across. Image courtesy of Julian Dowdeswell, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, UK.

USGS researchers Todd Burton and Joe Adams flying a UAS at the 2018 eruption of the Kilauea Volcano

This Landsat 8 image "Ice Vortex" is one of many beautiful images in the Earth as Art collections. 

Visit https://eros.usgs.gov/media-gallery/earth-as-art to see more. 

This Landsat 8 image "Australian Iron Ore" is one of many beautiful images in the Earth as Art collections. 

Visit https://eros.usgs.gov/media-gallery/earth-as-art to see more. 

Satellites have captured views of the numerous major fires burning in California.

Chesapeake Bay is the Nation's largest estuary and its restoration and protection is a priority. The USGS provides scientific information to help manage this vital ecosystem. As part of that role, staff at the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center created this true color composite image.

Landsat 7 images captured before and after highlight the destructive path of the Category 4 storm.

Center pivot irrigation fields in the Arabian Desert are visible in this Landsat 8 image near Meegowa, Saudi Arabia. The image was acquired on Oct 10, 2018 and is shown in a color infrared band combination (Bands 5,4,3).

Landsat 8 image - Earth as Art "Tapestry" 

View the entire image at https://eros.usgs.gov/media-gallery/earth-as-art/5/tapestry

This image titled  "Bleeding Heart"  is one of many contained in the 5th Earth as Art collection. 

Visit https://eros.usgs.gov/media-gallery/earth-as-art to view the entire group of Earth as Art collections. 

A FireFLY6 Pro vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) fixed-wing UAS sits on the ground between flights at the Corral Bluffs study area to support fossil studies by the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.

Hurricane Florence hit the Carolina coast on September 14, 2018, but it took much longer for the full impact to emerge.

October 16, 2018, marks the two-year anniversary of the Cottonwood Fire in western South Dakota. The fire consumed a large swath of grassland near the community of Wall and just north of Badlands National Park.