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Flooding in Western Australia
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Published January 19, 2006
Though Cyclone Clare caused little damage when it initially came ashore over northwestern Australia on January 10, 2006, it triggered widespread flooding as it moved south across Western Australia. The floods forced the government to declare disaster areas in at least three communities in southwestern Australia. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite...
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Byrd Glacier, Antarctica
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Named after American Antarctic explorer Richard E. Byrd, West Antarctica’s Byrd Glacier flows through a deep valley in the Transantarctic Mountains, covering a distance of 180 kilometers (112 miles) and descending more than 1,300 meters (4,300 feet) as it flows into the Ross Ice Shelf.
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Severe Cold in Southern Asia
Published January 18, 2006
The bitter cold of winter settled ferociously over the interior of Asia during the first week of 2006. A large mass of Siberian air swept as far south as India and as far east as Japan, enveloping much of Asia with uncommonly low temperatures. In many places, the cold weather was accompanied by crippling snow. Among the most severely affected were the...
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Ichkeul Lake, Tunisia
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Eruption on Augustine Island, Alaska
Published January 17, 2006
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Gotland island in the Baltic Sea
Gotland, an island in the Baltic Sea, is located roughly in the center of this image. To the left (West) is Sweden, of which Gotland is a part. To the right (East) are the countries of Finland...
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Potential La Niña Developing
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Cape Town, South Africa
Published January 16, 2006
Cape Town and the far southwestern tip of South Africa are featured in this image acquired on January 12, 2006. The variety of colors and textures displayed here reveal a complex pattern of land cover and topography. The light tan colored patch at the bottom...
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Forest Fire, Ouachita National Wildlife Refuge, LA
Dry conditions and high winds have lead to numerous recent fire outbreaks throughout much of the southwestern and south-central USA. Drought conditions have persisted in the region for months, leading to a build-up of fire fuels, including dried grasses, shrubs, and trees. The combination of high amounts of dry fuel and frequent high winds has stoked small fires into widespread brush fires. This astronaut photograph captures a 25-kilometer long smoke plume from a fire in the Upper Ouachita National Wildlife Refuge in northeastern Louisiana. The fire started at approximately 1:00 p.m. on January 2, 2006, and this image was acquired approximately three and a half hours later as the International Space Station passed over the Texas-Louisiana border, to the southwest of the scene.
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Heavy Snows in Central Asia
Published January 15, 2006
On October 8, 2005, a large earthquake shook the mountainous Kashmir region near the border of Pakistan and India. Tens of thousands of people died, and many more were isolated in the mountains by damage to roads and bridges as well as by landslides. Heavy winter snowfall poses an additional threat...
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Bruge, Belgium
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