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Falkland Islands
Published January 5, 2005
Also known as the Malvinas, the Falkland islands straddle the Scotia Sea and the South Atlantic Ocean about 480 kilometers (about 300 miles) to the southeast of Argentina. In this true-color Terra MODIS image from April 28, 2005, the three islands stand out in a rich green-brown against the deep blue of water. There are...
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Phytoplankton bloom in the Bay of Biscay
Enormous clouds of rich blue-green phytplankton swirl through the waters of the Bay of Biscay in this true-color Aqua MODIS image acquired April 29, 2005. Stretching across almost the entirety of the Bay, the phytoplankton reveal currents and eddies in the water. Phytoplankton are tiny single-celled organisms that...
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Commander Islands, Bering Sea
The Commander Islands, in Russian "Komandorskiye Ostrova," float east of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Bering Sea. This true-color Terra MODIS image from May 3, 2005, shows the tiny islands covered in bright white snow against the deep black open water. The islands - Bering island in the west and Mednyi Island...
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Northern Great Plains
The northern Great Plains of Canada and the United States cover thousands of square miles. This true-color Aqua MODIS image from May 3, 2005, shows a portion of the Great Plains covering Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and a small slice of Ontario, Canada, and Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wyoming, and South Dakota...
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Dust Storm across the Red Sea
An thick snake of tan dust slithers across Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the Red Sea in this dramatic true-color image acquired by the Aqua MODIS instrument on May 13, 2005. The dust is so thick that it is completely opaque for well over 700 miles from the Libyan Desert in western Egypt , across the green ribbon of the Nile and the Arabian Desert of Egypt and Saudi Arabia...
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Fires in Mexico’s Sierra Madre del Sur
Scores of fires were burning in the mountain chains lining Mexico´s Pacific Coast on May 17, 2005. This image shows fires detected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA´s Aqua satellite in the southern...
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Nouveau-Quebec and Hudson Bay
With the coming of spring, the ice on Canada´s Hudson Bay has begun to break up. Large chunks of ice float near the eastern shore of the bay, while the center of the bay, along the right side of the image, remains...
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Smoke across eastern Canada
Smoke continued to pour from fires in the Quebec province of Canada on June 2, 2005. Scores of fires have been burning in the area since the end of May. According to reports from the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Center, at least 20 of the 83 fires...
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Fires and smoke on Kamchatka Peninsula, Eastern Russia
The Sredinnyy Mountain Range runs down the spine of the Kamchatka Peninsula. The volcanic peninsula dips like a dagger into the icy water of the Bering Sea to the east and the Sea of Okhotsk to the west. Dozens of volcanoes are scattered along the mountain range, mostly on the eastern side...
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Quebec and the Hudson Bay
Sea ice on the Hudson Bay breaks up and slowly recedes as the warmer temperatures of spring and summer make their way north into Quebec Province in eastern Canada, shown here in this true-color Terra MODIS image from May 21, 2005. Hudson Bay, and the smaller James Bay that protrudes south between...
Hydrogen sulphide eruptions along the coast of Namibia
Along the coast of Namibia, north of the enormous sand dunes of the Great Namib Desert, a thick ribbon of bright green hydrogen sulfide floats in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean. In this true-color Aqua MODIS image acquired June 1, 2005, the hydrogen sulfide bloom stretches for kilometers along the shore. These eruptions...
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Phytoplankton Bloom off the US East Coast
Milky blue swirls of microscopic phytoplankton float in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean off the US eastern coastal states of Virginia and North Carolina in this true-color image. Judging by the bright blue color of the southeastern-most cloud, they could be a type of phytoplankton called coccolithophores, whose bright white calcite...
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Dust Storm in Pakistan and India
Beginning with a severe windstorm that uprooted trees and knocked down billboards and power lines, June 9, 2005, brought a major dust storm to Pakistan and India. In this true-color Terra MODIS image acquired the next day, the storm stretches for over 1,000 kilometers (about 620 miles) from central Pakistan into northern India. The dust obscures most of...
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Caspian Sea
Swirling clouds of sediment and phytoplankton float in the waters of the Caspian Sea, as shown in this true-color Aqua MODIS image acquired June 11, 2005. Sometimes called the world's largest lake, the Caspian is technically an inland saltwater sea. Regardless, it is still the world's largest inland body of water. It has no natural outflows other than evaporation...
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Fires in Eastern Alaska
Large billowing clouds of smoke stream to the southwest from large fires in eastern Alaska in this true-color Aqua MODIS image acquired June 14, 2005. Now that winter's snows have receded from most of the northern latitudes, both fires and plants can flourish, though high-pressure systems and high winds have increased fire risk conditions to extreme...
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Fires in Northern Australia
Amidst one of the worst droughts in Australian history, fires are being set across the continent to prepare for the winter growing season. In this true-color Aqua MODIS image from May 31, 2005, the fires send plumes of blue-grey smoke into the atmosphere. The fires are especially intense...
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Fires in Central Africa
Thousands of fires in Central Africa cover the land like a swarm of insects. They send tiny plumes of grey-blue smoke into the atmosphere creating a collective haze over the region that can have a strong impact on the weather, climate, human health, and natural resources. The fires are likely intentionally-set...
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Phytoplankton bloom south of Ireland
South of Ireland in the North Atlantic Ocean, milky blue clouds of phytoplankton float on the water's surface. These phytoplankton, which are probably coccolithophores, feed off of nutrients in the water brought to the surface from the ocean floor by cold-water upwellings. The nutrients, sunlight, and warm ocean surface temperatures make for ideal growing...
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Northeastern Siberia
One of the largest and least-populated regions in the world, Siberia stretches across three-quarters of Russia in northern Asia. There are just three people per square kilometer in Siberia, and 70 percent of those live in cities like Novosibirsk, Tobolsk, Irkutsk, and Omsk. Yet despite the rather sparse population, Siberia is rich in natural resources...
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Meltwater Ponds, Greenland
Every year, a little more of the Greenland Ice Sheet melts away into the Davis Strait, revealing more and more of the bare brown land underneath. In this true-color Terra MODIS image from June 14, 2005, the edge of the ice sheet (running vertically through the image at the approximate center) features a phenomenon known as meltwater ponds. These ponds...
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Dust Storm over the Red Sea
dust storm swept over the Red Sea on June 21, 2005, and the Aqua MODIS instrument captured this image the same day. Dust obscured the instrument's view of the Red Sea and the neighboring countries: Sudan, Eritrea, and Ethiopia to the west, and Saudi Arabia and Yemen to the East. The Dahlak Archipelago is partially visible underneath the dust...
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Dust storm in Southern Iraq
Winds blowing southeast through southern Iraq picked up dust from the land and carried it out over the Persian Gulf in this true-color Aqua MODIS image from June 18, 2005. The Dust seems to originate in the vast fertile valley between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers - home to...
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The Low Countries
Not necessarily corresponding directly to nation-states, but rather to a region in northern Europe where cities developed around trade after the Dark Ages rather than developed from ancient centers, the Low Countries surround the delta of the Rhine, Scheldt, and Meuse rivers on the boundary...
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Western Turkey
The bulk of Turkey separates the Black Sea to the north from the Aegean and Mediterranean seas to the west and southwest, and southeastern Europe from southwestern Asia. This portion of Turkey is called the Anatolian Peninsula, and has been the birthplace of a number of civilizations, most notably Troy...
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Fires in the Southwestern United States
At least three large, named fires are burning through the United States Southwest region. In this true-color Aqua MODIS image from June 24, 2005, bright red dots mark the location of active fires in southern California, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah. The large collection of fires in California is the Hackberry Complex, and at over 68,200 acres it is...
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Fires and burn scars in the SW United States
Every year the fire season descends on the southwestern United States, leaving in its wake a number of scars from the fires it spawns. In this set of Terra MODIS images, a dozen fires are actively burning in the states of Nevada, Utah, and Arizona. The large fire north of Phoenix is the Cave Creek Complex, which is estimated to cover over 140,000 acres. Once the fire..
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Northern Siberia
Sea ice breaks up and drifts away into the Laptev Sea in this true-color Terra MODIS image of northern Siberia from July 1, 2005. Summer temperatures are finally reaching the northernmost climates, causing thick sea ice to break up as the land blooms into the rich green of vegetation. This part of Siberia is...
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Dust storm in Taklimakan
Another dust storm struck the Taklimakan Desert in western China on June 25, 2005. The Terra MODIS instrument captured this image the same day. Several hundred kilometers across, the dust storm covered the desert and swept toward the northeast. In this image, the dust storm appears in pale beige...
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Tropical Storm Cindy
Tropical Storm Cindy was preparing to make landfall over southeastern Louisiana on July 5, 2005, when the Aqua MODIS instrument captured this image. At the time, the National Hurricane Center reported the storm to have winds of 70 miles per hour, just 4 miles per hour...
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Volga River Delta
The deep green braids of the Volga River fan into a broad delta on the northwest shore of the Caspian Sea. More than 500 channels flow from the river into the sea, creating a web of wetlands that supports hundreds of species of birds, fish, and plants. The Volga River delta is one of the most productive regions of the world for fish, particularly...
Hurricane Dennis
Hurricane Dennis threaded its way between Jamaica and Haiti on a direct course for Cuba on July 7, 2005. In this image, the storm has the distinctive hurricane form, with a well-defined eye surrounded by bands of swirling clouds. At 10:50 a.m. local time (15:50 UTC), when the Terra MODIS instrument...
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Fires and smoke in central Siberia
With the higher temperatures of summer come wildfires, as shown in this true-color Aqua MODIS image of Siberia, northern Russia. Acquired on July 7, 2005, this image shows a number of large fires and large clouds of smoke covering the portion of Siberia called the Western Siberian Lowlands...
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