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Agricultural Fires in West Africa
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Published March 10, 2008
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Tropical Cyclone Jokwe (22S) in the Mozambique Channel
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Cumulonimbus Cloud over Africa
Perhaps the most impressive of cloud formations, cumulonimbus (from the Latin for “pile” and “rain cloud”) clouds form due to vigorous convection (rising and overturning) of warm, moist, and unstable air. Surface air is warmed by the sun-heated ground surface and rises; if sufficient atmospheric moisture is present, water droplets will condense as the air mass encounters cooler air at higher altitudes. The air mass itself also expands and cools as it rises due to decreasing atmospheric pressure, a process known as adiabatic cooling. This type of convection is common in tropical latitudes year-round and during the summer season at higher latitudes.
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Fires in West Africa
Published March 9, 2008
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Ries Crater, Germany
Germany’s Ries Crater (or Nördlinger Ries) is not easily discerned in space-based images. The crater’s existence was probably just as subtle to the medieval Europeans who established a settlement inside it and unknowingly matched their 1-kilometer- (0.6-mile-) wide city to the likely diameter of the meteorite that formed the crater.
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Fires in eastern Siberia (true color)
Published March 8, 2008
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Fires and burn scars in eastern Siberia (false color)
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Fires in southern India
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Tropical Cyclone Jokwe
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Deforestation in Monarch Butterfly Reserve
Published March 7, 2008
Each year millions of monarch butterflies migrate thousands of miles back and forth from wintering grounds in Mexico to their breeding locations in the eastern United States and Canada. In the fall, the monarchs return to just 12 forested mountaintops in central Mexico, where they form colonies in which millions of butterflies cluster on the trunks and branches of the trees. Despite the creation of protected areas and reserves, illegal logging has been steadily shrinking this unique, critical monarch habitat.
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Fire Damages Kenya’s Lake Nakuru National Park
Published March 6, 2008
In late February 2008, Kenya’s Lake Nakuru National Park suffered a major blow when an accidental fire scorched a large section of the relatively small park.
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Caspian Sea
Published March 5, 2008
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