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Typhoon Ewiniar
Published July 11, 2006
On July 7, 2006, Typhoon Ewiniar swirled in the western Pacific Ocean offshore of China, Taiwan, and the Philippines. The storm began brewing in the area around the Caroline Islands (southeast of the area shown here) on June 29 and moved northwest...
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The Pacific Northwest
Published July 10, 2006
This image of the Pacific Northwest region of the United States (and parts of Canada) was acquired July 3, 2006 by the MODIS on the Terra satellite. In the top left corner of the image is Vancouver Island, the southern portion of which is obscured by clouds. Vancouver is part of the Canadian province of British Columbia, visible also...
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Stromboli Volcano
Published July 9, 2006
On July 2, 2006, the MODIS on the Terra satellite detected a hotspot on the volcanic island of Stromboli, the island in the top center of the image. A hotspot, shown here as a red outline, is an area of elevated surface temperatures. Nearby landmasses shown in this image include the islands of Salina, Lipari, and Vulcano...
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Fires in Central Canada
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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Dust Storm over the Red Sea
Published July 7, 2006
Another dust storm blew off the coast of Sudan on July 4, 2006. The MODIS on the Aqua satellite took this picture the same day. In this image, a thick plume of tan dust blows off the coast, near the border with Eritrea, gradually fanning out as it moves over the Red Sea....
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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
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...
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Sicily
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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Meltwater Ponds Along Greenland’s West Coast
Published July 3, 2006
The MODIS on the Terra satellite acquired this image of the west coast of Greenland on June 26, 2006, which shows the melt zone along the edge of the Greenland ice sheet. Small circular melt ponds dot the fringes of the melt zone. The false color emphasizes...
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Heavy Rain in the Mid-Atlantic States
Published July 2, 2006
After six days of torrential rain, the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States got a break on June 29, 2006. Skies were mostly clear when the MODIS on th Terra satellite captured this image at noon Eastern Daylight Time. The image shows the region around Washington, D.C....
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Mato Grosso, Brazil
Published July 1, 2006
Mato Grosso, shown in this MODIS Terra image, acquired June 28, 2006, is one of the states of Brazil, located in the western part of the country. Neighboring states are (from west clockwise) Rondonia,...
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Fires and smoke in Saskatchewan and Manitoba
Published June 30, 2006
Each red dot on this image of Alberta, (far left) Saskatchewan (left), and Manitoba (right), acquired June 26, 2006 by the MODIS on the Terra satellite, represents an active fire. These forest fires in Central Canada, many triggered by lightning...
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Fires in Central Africa
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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Phytoplankton Bloom off Vancouver Island, British Columbia
Published June 28, 2006
Roll your mouse over this image and you can watch the motion of a phytoplanckton bloom from one day to the next! These two images, from June 25th and 26th were acquired by the MODIS on the Aqua...
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Phytoplankton Bloom in the Black Sea
Published June 27, 2006
This image of the Black Sea, acquired on June 20, 2006, by the MODIS on the Aqua satellite, shows swirling blooms of phytoplankton coloring the surface waters blue and green. The large volume of freshwater flowing...
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Kamchatka Peninsula
Published June 26, 2006
The Kamchatka Peninsula, comparable in size to Japan, is part of the Russian Far East. It's part of the Great Pacific 'Ring of Fire' and has over 160 volcanos, 29 of them active. In the center of Kamchatka...
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Italy and France
Published June 25, 2006
This MODIS Terra image, acquired June 12, 2006, provides a nice view of Northern Italy, France, and part of Switzerland.In the east is Northern Italy. In the lower right hand corner of the image are the islands of Corsica and the tip...
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South Africa and Lesotho
Published June 24, 2006
The mountainous country of Lesotho is completely surrounded by the eastern region of South Africa, as shown is this image, acquired by the MODIS on the Terra satellite on June 6, 2006. Lesotho, which has a long...
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Flooding in Bangladesh
Published June 23, 2006
Northeastern Bangladesh disappeared under monsoon floods as rains drenched the region in June 2006. By June 21, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured the top image, the floods stretched across hundreds of kilometers of what had been dry land a month earlier. According to...
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The Middle East
Published June 22, 2006
This MODIS Terra image of the Middle East was acquired on June 5, 2006. The green Nile Delta, in Egypt (to the west) contrasts with the surrounding desert areas. To the east of the Nile, two forks of the Red Sea surround the Sinai Peninsula. The left branch is the...
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Halifax, Nova Scotia and the Bay of Fundy
Published June 21, 2006
Nova Scotia and the Bay of Fundy are featured in this image, acquired May 30, 2006 by the MODIS on the Aqua satellite. Nova Scotia, a Candian province, is the long peninsula that runs diagonally across the image. Just north of Nova Scotia is the small U-shaped...
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London, Calais, and the English Channel
Published June 20, 2006
This image, acquired by the MODIS on the Aqua satellite on June 3, 2006, shows parts of England and France, separated from each other by the English Channel. The large grayish spot towards left center of the image is the city of London, which sits on the Thames River. At the tip...
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Dust Storm in Chad
Published June 19, 2006
A dust storm blew through part of eastern Chad on June 11, 2006. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) flying onboard NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image of the storm...
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Fires in Eastern China
Published June 18, 2006
Streaks of thick haze were draped over the North China Plain when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) captured this photo-like image on June 4, 2006, from NASA’s Terra satellite. Though it is not possible to tell the source of the haze from a photo-like image like this one, there are several likely contributors. First, dozens of fires, marked in red, are scattered across the southern edge of the plain. A light pall of gray haze lingers over the largest cluster of the fires below the center of the image (more clearly seen in the large image), hinting that smoke may be contributing to the haze. The Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) expected China’s winter grain harvest to peak during the first two weeks of June, and it’s likely that the fires were started by farmers burning the stubble off their fields after harvest. Dust may also be mingling in the mix of haze. In the lower-left corner and right of the center of the image, the haze is opaque with the earthy tan tone that is common for wind-blown dust. Eastern China experienced an unusual number of severe sand storms in the spring of 2006, when weather patterns in Siberia swept powerful winds across the Gobi Desert and carried dust over Eastern China. The dust shown in this image, however, appears to originate from the North China Plain. Mild drought settled over the Yellow River Basin, the area immediately north of the band of fires, after a dry spring, reported the FAS. Since dry soil is easily lifted on the wind, the likelihood of dust storms on the plain increases during drought. Finally, urban and industrial pollution could be adding to the haze, particularly in the north. Here, the haze is lighter in color, resembling the white-gray air that sometimes lingers over cities. Several of China’s largest cities are in or near the area shown in this image (Beijing is just beyond the top edge of the image), and much of China’s industry is in this region as well.
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Navajo Mountain Fire
Published June 17, 2006
Just north of the Arizona-Utah border, Navajo Mountain overlooks Lake Powell in the Glen Canyon. On June 12, 2006, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite observed a large fire on the mountain. The location in which the sensor detected actively burning fire is outlined in red. A column of smoke billows north.
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Dust Storm Over the Aral Sea
Published June 15, 2006
Swirling brown sand colors over the green waters of the Aral sea in this MODIS Aqua image acquired on June 13, 2006. The Aral Sea is a landlocked endorheic sea in Central Asia, between Kazakhstan in the north and Karakalpakstan to the south. An Endorheic basin is a watershed from which there is no outflow of water from it; for example, no rivers, or underground flow, or diffusion through rock. Any rain that falls into it, remains there permanently, until it evaporates. These sorts of basins are more common in hot desert locations, though they can occur in any climate. <caption>In the case of the Aral Sea, the rivers that feed it (the Amu Darya and Syr Darya) have been shrinking since the 1960s, as they were diverted by the Soviet Union for irrigation. The sea's surface area has shrunk by approximately 60%, and its volume by 80%. For more information on the Aral Sea, try reading the Wikipedia entry on it!</caption> </fullcaption> <datasource> <sensorid>64</sensorid> <date type="start">06/13/06</date> </datasource> <images> <image width="-1" height="-1" type="JPEG" fileuri="http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/images/image06162006_tn.jpg" display="yes" fileregex="s/image06162006_/NewZealand.A2006164.0225./" special="thumb" comment="" /> <image width="-1" height="-1" type="JPEG" fileuri="http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/images/image06162006_md.jpg" display="yes" fileregex="s/image06162006_/NewZealand.A2006164.0225./" special="image" comment="Snow in New Zealand" /> <image width="-1" height="-1" type="JPEG" fileuri="http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/images/image06162006_250m.jpg" display="yes" fileregex="s/image06162006_/NewZealand.A2006164.0225./" special="image" comment="" /> <image width="-1" height="-1" type="JPEG" fileuri="http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/images/image06162006_500m.jpg" display="yes" fileregex="s/image06162006_/NewZealand.A2006164.0225./" special="image" comment="" /> <image width="-1" height="-1" type="JPEG" fileuri="http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/images/image06162006_1km.jpg" display="yes" fileregex="s/image06162006_/NewZealand.A2006164.0225./" special="image" comment="" /> </images> <trait name="MODIS Bands" title="MODIS Bands" order="0"> <availability visibility="HTML Visible" />
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Tropical Storm Alberto
Published June 14, 2006
Tropical Storm Alberto formed as a tropical depression early in the morning on June 10, 2006, in the Yucatan Channel. This narrow gap of ocean lies between the western end of Cuba and the Yucatan Peninsula at the mouth of the Gulf of Mexico. Alberto gradually gathered...
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The Garabogazkol
Published June 13, 2006
This MODIS Terra image, acquired June 12, 2006, shows the Garabogazköl (also known asthe Kara-Bogaz-Gol) - a shallow depression in the northwestern corner of Turkmenistan. Separated from the Caspian Sea by a thin sandbar...
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Fire in Portugal
Published June 12, 2006
The MODIS on NASA’s Terra satellite detected a large fire burning in northwest Portugal on June 5, 2006. The fire, outlined in red, was billowing a cloud of smoke that spread out over the Atlantic Ocean. The fire is near..
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Saharan Dust Storm
Published June 11, 2006
A Saharan dust storm originating in Mali blew off the west coast of Africa on June 6, 2006. The MODIS flying onboard NASA’s Terra satellite took this picture the same day. The dust plumes are the thickest...
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Fires and Haze in Eastern China
Published June 10, 2006
Streaks of thick haze were draped over the North China Plain when the MODIS captured this photo-like image on June 4, 2006, from NASA’s Terra satellite. Though it is not possible to tell the source of the haze from a photo-like image like this one, there are several likely contributors. First, dozens...
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Mount Merapi
Published June 9, 2006
This is an image of Mount Merapi, acquired by the MODIS on the Terra satellite on June 6, 2006. A red square marks the volcano’s summit; this “hotspot” is where the satellite sensor detected unusually warm surface temperatures. A gray plume emerges...
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