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Dust storm in Taklimakan
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Published January 5, 2005
Another dust storm struck the Taklimakan Desert in western China on June 25, 2005. The Terra MODIS instrument captured this image the same day. Several hundred kilometers across, the dust storm covered the desert and swept toward the northeast. In this image, the dust storm appears in pale beige...
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Northern Siberia
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Sea ice breaks up and drifts away into the Laptev Sea in this true-color Terra MODIS image of northern Siberia from July 1, 2005. Summer temperatures are finally reaching the northernmost climates, causing thick sea ice to break up as the land blooms into the rich green of vegetation. This part of Siberia is...
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Fires and burn scars in the SW United States
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Every year the fire season descends on the southwestern United States, leaving in its wake a number of scars from the fires it spawns. In this set of Terra MODIS images, a dozen fires are actively burning in the states of Nevada, Utah, and Arizona. The large fire north of Phoenix is the Cave Creek Complex, which is estimated to cover over 140,000 acres. Once the fire..
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Fires in the Southwestern United States
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At least three large, named fires are burning through the United States Southwest region. In this true-color Aqua MODIS image from June 24, 2005, bright red dots mark the location of active fires in southern California, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah. The large collection of fires in California is the Hackberry Complex, and at over 68,200 acres it is...
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Western Turkey
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The bulk of Turkey separates the Black Sea to the north from the Aegean and Mediterranean seas to the west and southwest, and southeastern Europe from southwestern Asia. This portion of Turkey is called the Anatolian Peninsula, and has been the birthplace of a number of civilizations, most notably Troy...
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The Low Countries
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Not necessarily corresponding directly to nation-states, but rather to a region in northern Europe where cities developed around trade after the Dark Ages rather than developed from ancient centers, the Low Countries surround the delta of the Rhine, Scheldt, and Meuse rivers on the boundary...
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Dust storm in Southern Iraq
Winds blowing southeast through southern Iraq picked up dust from the land and carried it out over the Persian Gulf in this true-color Aqua MODIS image from June 18, 2005. The Dust seems to originate in the vast fertile valley between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers - home to...
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Dust Storm over the Red Sea
dust storm swept over the Red Sea on June 21, 2005, and the Aqua MODIS instrument captured this image the same day. Dust obscured the instrument's view of the Red Sea and the neighboring countries: Sudan, Eritrea, and Ethiopia to the west, and Saudi Arabia and Yemen to the East. The Dahlak Archipelago is partially visible underneath the dust...
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Meltwater Ponds, Greenland
Every year, a little more of the Greenland Ice Sheet melts away into the Davis Strait, revealing more and more of the bare brown land underneath. In this true-color Terra MODIS image from June 14, 2005, the edge of the ice sheet (running vertically through the image at the approximate center) features a phenomenon known as meltwater ponds. These ponds...
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Northeastern Siberia
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One of the largest and least-populated regions in the world, Siberia stretches across three-quarters of Russia in northern Asia. There are just three people per square kilometer in Siberia, and 70 percent of those live in cities like Novosibirsk, Tobolsk, Irkutsk, and Omsk. Yet despite the rather sparse population, Siberia is rich in natural resources...
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Phytoplankton bloom south of Ireland
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South of Ireland in the North Atlantic Ocean, milky blue clouds of phytoplankton float on the water's surface. These phytoplankton, which are probably coccolithophores, feed off of nutrients in the water brought to the surface from the ocean floor by cold-water upwellings. The nutrients, sunlight, and warm ocean surface temperatures make for ideal growing...
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Fires in Central Africa
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Thousands of fires in Central Africa cover the land like a swarm of insects. They send tiny plumes of grey-blue smoke into the atmosphere creating a collective haze over the region that can have a strong impact on the weather, climate, human health, and natural resources. The fires are likely intentionally-set...
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