NASA Visible Earth

Haze over China

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Haze over China

Published March 30, 2007

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Dust storm in the Gobi Desert

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Dust storm in the Gobi Desert

Published March 30, 2007

Dust storm in the Gobi Desert

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Eruption of Shiveluch Volcano, Kamchatka Peninsula

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Eruption of Shiveluch Volcano, Kamchatka Peninsula

Published March 30, 2007

Satellites usually capture images of volcanic ash plumes as they are blowing away. This image is different.

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Eruption of Shiveluch volcano, Kamchatka Peninsula, eastern Russia

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Eruption of Shiveluch volcano, Kamchatka Peninsula, eastern Russia

Published March 29, 2007

Eruption of Shiveluch volcano, Kamchatka Peninsula, eastern Russia

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River Plumes Threaten Great Barrier Reef

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River Plumes Threaten Great Barrier Reef

Published March 29, 2007

In late February 2007, NASA satellite images revealed that even the outer portions of the Australia’s Great Barrier Reef can be bathed in land-based pollution carried far offshore by plumes of river water. Conventional thinking was that river plumes affected only the lagoon and the inner portions of the reef. But images from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite verify a new theory that not even the outer reefs are spared the impact of land-based pollution, which includes excess sediment, fertilizers, and pesticides.

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Fires in Myanmar

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Fires in Myanmar

Published March 28, 2007

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Dust Storm in Northern China

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Dust Storm in Northern China

Published March 28, 2007

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Dust Storm out of Northern Africa

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Dust Storm out of Northern Africa

Published March 28, 2007

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Lahar on Mount Ruapehu, New Zealand

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Lahar on Mount Ruapehu, New Zealand

Published March 28, 2007

Lahars present an ongoing threat to those living around New Zealand’s Mount Ruapehu. On March 18, 2007, one such slurry burst out of Mount Ruapehu’s caldera and flowed down the side of the volcano.

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Thames River Plume in the North Sea

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Thames River Plume in the North Sea

Published March 27, 2007

Though the River Thames pours into the North Sea in southeast England, the river does not end there. Its plume of fresh water, colored tan by the earth picked up on its journey across England, flows through the dark blue waters of the North Sea along the coast of Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany before fading in a cloud of green near Denmark.

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