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Dust Storm in the Taklimakan Desert
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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Smoke and Fires Across Western Siberia
Published July 26, 2006
This MODIS Aqua image of the Central Siberian Plateau shows the forest fires burning on July 24, 2006. The red dots represent the active fires in the region, mostly in the bottom of the image. The smoke from these fires, however, spreads nearly across...
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Tropical Storm Beryl approaching New England
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
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
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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Namibia and the Namib Desert
Published July 22, 2006
Featured today, in this MODIS Aqua image, captured July 17, 2006, is the country of Namibia, particularly the Namib Desert. Namibia is a country in southern Africa, on the Atlantic coast. It's bordered by Angola, and Zambia to the north...
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Fires in California
Published July 21, 2006
Two wildfires burning in the Mojave Desert at the foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains in southern California continued to spread and threatened to merge into a single large blaze in mid-July 2006. At just over 8,000 acres as of July 14, the Millard Complex Fire is the smaller of the two, and it is located...
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The Netherlands
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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Wildfires in Montana and Wyoming
Published July 19, 2006
In Montana, two large fires were burning along the Yellowstone and Bighorn Rivers east of Billings in mid-July 2006. The Bundy Railroad Fire threatened structures, powerlines, rangeland and livestock, and timber. Voluntary evacuations were underway in the region as of July 17...
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Etosha National Park in Namibia
Published July 18, 2006
Etosha National Park, in Namibia, was first established in 1907, when Namibia was still a German colony called South West Africa. Though the park is smaller now, than in those days, it is still...
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Haze over the United States East Coast
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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Hurricane Carlotta
Published July 16, 2006
Hurricane Carlotta formed in the eastern Pacific on July 11, 2006 off the Pacific coast of Mexico. The tropical depression gradually gathered power and size as it traveled northwesterly over the next several days, roughly parallel to, but well away from, the Mexican coast. The tropical depression was upgraded to tropical storm status and given the name Carlotta...
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