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Dust Storm over the Red Sea
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Published July 30, 2006
This MODIS Terra image, acquired July 25, 2006, shows a dust storm blowing off the coast of Sudan (left), out over the Red Sea. The Red Sea separates the African countries like Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia from...
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Dust Storm in the Taklimakan Desert
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Published July 27, 2006
This MODIS Aqua image, captured July 26th, shows an active dust storm in the Taklimakan Desert in Western China! A sandy haze covers most of the oval shaped desert, which sits in a depression between to high mountain ranges. Some of the desert's sand dunes are visible in...
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Tropical Storm Beryl approaching New England
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Published July 25, 2006
Tropical Storm Beryl, with its beautiful spiral shape, was offshore of New Jersey, Long Island, and Connecticut when the MODIS on the Aqua satellite captured this image on July 20, 2006. This storm...
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Spain and Algeria
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Published July 24, 2006
This MODIS Terra image, acquired on July 10th, shows southern Spain, and separated from it by the Mediterranean Sea, the African country of Algeria. Just off the image to the left would be the straights of Gibralter, where Spain nearly touches...
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Fires in Central and Southern Africa
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Published July 23, 2006
On July 10, 2006, thousands of fires were burning across the savannas of central and southern Africa when the MODIS on NASA’s Aqua satellite passed overhead. Each place where MODIS detected an actively burning fire has been marked in red in this scene...
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The Netherlands
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Published July 20, 2006
The Netherlands are featured in this MODIS, Terra image from July 17, 2006. Netherlands, which means, literally 'low lands' is very flat. About half its surface area is less than 1 meter above sea level, and large parts ...
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Haze over the United States East Coast
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Published July 17, 2006
The East Coast of the US is featured in this MODIS Terra image, captured July 11, 2006. The region has experienced high temperatures - the haze you see in the image is likely a result of this. Smog (a word coined from the words 'smoke' and 'fog') is a...
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Fires in Central Canada
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Published July 8, 2006
Smoke continued to pour from fires in central and western Canada in the first week of July. This image from the MODIS on NASA’s Terra satellite on July 5, 2006, shows thick gray smoke hanging over Alberta...
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Typhoon Ewiniar
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Published July 6, 2006
Typhoon Ewiniar formed in the western Pacific on June 29, 2006, a hundred miles south of the Yap Islands in the Federated States of Micronesia. The tropical depression gathered power and size as it traveled...
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Amazon Greener in Dry Season than Wet
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Published July 5, 2006
The Amazon Basin (black outline) stretches across the heart of South America. Much of the area is covered by rainforests. Layer upon layer of amazingly diverse plants and trees reaches from the forest floor to the tree tops. With all this lush plant life, it can be hard to believe that parts of the Amazon go months...
Sicily
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Published July 4, 2006
This image of Sicily and the surrounding region was acquired by the MODIS on the Aqua satellite on July 2, 2006. The red dots represent active fires in the region....
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Fires in Central Africa
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Published June 29, 2006
Hundreds, possibly thousands of agricultural fires were burning in the central African countries of Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Zambia on June 24, 2006. Each red dot on this image from the MODIS on NASA’s Aqua satellite shows the location of an active fire...
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