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Dust Storm in the Sahara Desert
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Published January 5, 2005
The Sahara, one of the world´s most prolific dust producers, kicked up another storm on July 19, 2005. The Aqua MODIS instrument captured this image of the west coast of Africa as a huge veil of dust swept out over the Atlantic Ocean and Cape Verde Islands. The dust storm is several hundred kilometers...
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Snow in Iran
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Western Australia
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Clear skies above Western Australia reveal deep red and orange deserts, bright white salt pans, deep brown mountains, and bright green pasturelands. Perth, the largest city in southwestern Australia, sits on the western coast near the northern end of the Darling Range of mountains and is visible as a...
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Dust Across Kazakhstan
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Dust streams to the southwest across Kazakhstan on July 20, 2005. The Terra MODIS instrument took this picture the same day, also capturing images of the Syrdar'ya River at bottom, bright white salt pans, and the myriad shades of brown deserts that stretch across the the southern end of...
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Western United States
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While the rest of the western United States basked under the intense summer sun, large fires burned in northern Nevada and southern Idaho, as shown in this true-color Terra MODIS image from July 18, 2005. The fires in Nevada send plumes of smoke streaming to the southeast, while the fire in Idaho gives off no visible plume. Fires...
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Hurricane Emily
Despite its encounter with land, Hurricane Emily retained the characteristic swirling form of a hurricane when it emerged over the Gulf of Mexico on July 18, 2005. The Terra MODIS instrument captured this image at 12:10 p.m. local time in Cancun, Mexico, just after Emily returned to...
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Summer Bloom in the Baltic Sea
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The Baltic Sea blooms with life two times per year, once in the spring and once in the late summer. This true-color Aqua MODIS image shows the deep green swirls of the summer bloom around the Swedish island of Gotland. The summer bloom is usually caused by blue-green algae growing on the surface of...
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Hurricane Dennis
Hurricane Dennis was bearing down on the Gulf Coast of the United States on July 10, 2005, at 12:15 p.m. (16:15 UTC) when the Terra MODIS instrument acquired this true-color image. With winds of 117 knots (135 miles per hour; 1 knot = 1.15 mph), Dennis was a powerful Category 4 storm just hours...
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Fires and smoke in central Siberia
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With the higher temperatures of summer come wildfires, as shown in this true-color Aqua MODIS image of Siberia, northern Russia. Acquired on July 7, 2005, this image shows a number of large fires and large clouds of smoke covering the portion of Siberia called the Western Siberian Lowlands...
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Hurricane Dennis threaded its way between Jamaica and Haiti on a direct course for Cuba on July 7, 2005. In this image, the storm has the distinctive hurricane form, with a well-defined eye surrounded by bands of swirling clouds. At 10:50 a.m. local time (15:50 UTC), when the Terra MODIS instrument...
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Volga River Delta
The deep green braids of the Volga River fan into a broad delta on the northwest shore of the Caspian Sea. More than 500 channels flow from the river into the sea, creating a web of wetlands that supports hundreds of species of birds, fish, and plants. The Volga River delta is one of the most productive regions of the world for fish, particularly...
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Tropical Storm Cindy
Tropical Storm Cindy was preparing to make landfall over southeastern Louisiana on July 5, 2005, when the Aqua MODIS instrument captured this image. At the time, the National Hurricane Center reported the storm to have winds of 70 miles per hour, just 4 miles per hour...
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