Start Date: End Date: Published Date Data Date
Fires in the Southern United States
164 x 120 JPEG
Published March 6, 2006
Related images:
540 x 405 JPEG
3504 x 3504 2 MB - JPEG
Floods in Western Australia
134 x 102 JPEG
As cyclones go, Cyclone Emma was weak, forming just before coming ashore with winds gusting to less than 49 knots or 56 miles per hour (1 knot = 1.15 mph). The storm did, however, drape itself over the whole of Western Australia on March 1, 2006, bringing a deluge of rain. In the midst of its wet season...
337 x 292 166 KB - JPEG
1619 x 1556 579 KB - JPEG
3238 x 3112 2 MB - JPEG
6476 x 6224 5 MB - JPEG
Phytoplankton bloom off Argentina
115 x 150 JPEG
600 x 800 70 KB - JPEG
1200 x 1600 258 KB - JPEG
2400 x 3200 685 KB - JPEG
Apataki Atoll
This astronaut photograph depicts Apataki Atoll, an atoll in the Tuamotu Islands in the south Pacific. Atolls are ring-like coral islands that nearly or entirely enclose a lagoon. The atoll traces the perimeter of what was once the coastline of a volcanic island. In 1722, Dutch navigator Jakob Roggeveen became the first European to see the Apataki Atoll. It was later visited by Captain Cook in 1774.
540 x 540 JPEG
1000 x 662 369 KB - JPEG
342 x 228 JPEG
720 x 480 JPEG
Published March 5, 2006
Tropical Cyclone Carina
Tropical Cyclone Carina appears as a tightly wound spiral in the Indian Ocean in this satellite view of the storm, obtained by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA’s Aqua satellite on February 27, 2006. Carina had become an organized storm system four days earlier, and built rapidly into a powerful cyclone. By the time MODIS obtained this observation of Carina...
337 x 337 109 KB - JPEG
1500 x 1500 470 KB - JPEG
3000 x 3000 1 MB Bytes - JPEG
6000 x 6000 4 MB - JPEG
Shrimp Farming in Honduras
Afghanistan
Published March 4, 2006
A dense pack of snow and ice covers the rugged, mountainous landscape of Afghanistan in this image acquired on February 27, 2006. MODIS images such as this one are an important tool used to measure snowfall; snow melt from the mountains of Afghanistan is an important source of the country’s fresh water supply. Snow is also a major natural hazard in this region...
337 x 277 109 KB - JPEG
1400 x 1150 542 KB - JPEG
2800 x 2300 2 MB - JPEG
5600 x 4600 5 MB - JPEG
Landslide in the Philippines
156 x 120 JPEG
3200 x 3200 3 MB - JPEG
Tropical Cyclone Emma
Published March 3, 2006
Tropical Cyclone Emma formed as a low-intensity storm system and built to cyclone strength only briefly. But Emma’s brief cyclone status belied its size and rainfall. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) instrument on the Aqua observed the storm system as it was losing strength, and hence its tropical cyclone status, on February 28, 2006, at 5:55 UTC (1:55 p.m. local time). At this time...
337 x 428 109 KB - JPEG
810 x 1080 574 KB - JPEG
6476 x 8635 3 MB - JPEG
As cyclones go, Cyclone Emma was weak, forming just before coming ashore with winds gusting to less than 90 kilometers per hour (56 miles per hour). The storm did, however, drape itself over the whole of Western Australia on March 1, 2006, bringing a deluge of rain. In the midst of its wet season, the region was already soggy when Emma came ashore, and the storm’s heavy rains triggered widespread flooding. Water spilled out of river basins and filled seasonal lakes across the state on March 2, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite took this false-color image.
6224 x 6224 120 MB - GeoTIFF
6476 x 6224 4 MB - JPEG
6224 x 6224 104 MB - GeoTIFF
Heavy Rains in Northern California
Published March 2, 2006
540 x 412 JPEG
640 x 361 179 KB - JPEG