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Fires in Northern Australia
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Published January 5, 2005
Amidst one of the worst droughts in Australian history, fires are being set across the continent to prepare for the winter growing season. In this true-color Aqua MODIS image from May 31, 2005, the fires send plumes of blue-grey smoke into the atmosphere. The fires are especially intense...
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Fires in Eastern Alaska
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Large billowing clouds of smoke stream to the southwest from large fires in eastern Alaska in this true-color Aqua MODIS image acquired June 14, 2005. Now that winter's snows have receded from most of the northern latitudes, both fires and plants can flourish, though high-pressure systems and high winds have increased fire risk conditions to extreme...
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Caspian Sea
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Swirling clouds of sediment and phytoplankton float in the waters of the Caspian Sea, as shown in this true-color Aqua MODIS image acquired June 11, 2005. Sometimes called the world's largest lake, the Caspian is technically an inland saltwater sea. Regardless, it is still the world's largest inland body of water. It has no natural outflows other than evaporation...
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Dust Storm in Pakistan and India
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Beginning with a severe windstorm that uprooted trees and knocked down billboards and power lines, June 9, 2005, brought a major dust storm to Pakistan and India. In this true-color Terra MODIS image acquired the next day, the storm stretches for over 1,000 kilometers (about 620 miles) from central Pakistan into northern India. The dust obscures most of...
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Phytoplankton Bloom off the US East Coast
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Milky blue swirls of microscopic phytoplankton float in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean off the US eastern coastal states of Virginia and North Carolina in this true-color image. Judging by the bright blue color of the southeastern-most cloud, they could be a type of phytoplankton called coccolithophores, whose bright white calcite...
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Hydrogen sulphide eruptions along the coast of Namibia
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Along the coast of Namibia, north of the enormous sand dunes of the Great Namib Desert, a thick ribbon of bright green hydrogen sulfide floats in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean. In this true-color Aqua MODIS image acquired June 1, 2005, the hydrogen sulfide bloom stretches for kilometers along the shore. These eruptions...
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Quebec and the Hudson Bay
Sea ice on the Hudson Bay breaks up and slowly recedes as the warmer temperatures of spring and summer make their way north into Quebec Province in eastern Canada, shown here in this true-color Terra MODIS image from May 21, 2005. Hudson Bay, and the smaller James Bay that protrudes south between...
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Fires and smoke on Kamchatka Peninsula, Eastern Russia
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The Sredinnyy Mountain Range runs down the spine of the Kamchatka Peninsula. The volcanic peninsula dips like a dagger into the icy water of the Bering Sea to the east and the Sea of Okhotsk to the west. Dozens of volcanoes are scattered along the mountain range, mostly on the eastern side...
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Smoke across eastern Canada
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Smoke continued to pour from fires in the Quebec province of Canada on June 2, 2005. Scores of fires have been burning in the area since the end of May. According to reports from the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Center, at least 20 of the 83 fires...
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Nouveau-Quebec and Hudson Bay
With the coming of spring, the ice on Canada´s Hudson Bay has begun to break up. Large chunks of ice float near the eastern shore of the bay, while the center of the bay, along the right side of the image, remains...
Fires in Mexico’s Sierra Madre del Sur
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Scores of fires were burning in the mountain chains lining Mexico´s Pacific Coast on May 17, 2005. This image shows fires detected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA´s Aqua satellite in the southern...
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Dust Storm across the Red Sea
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An thick snake of tan dust slithers across Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the Red Sea in this dramatic true-color image acquired by the Aqua MODIS instrument on May 13, 2005. The dust is so thick that it is completely opaque for well over 700 miles from the Libyan Desert in western Egypt , across the green ribbon of the Nile and the Arabian Desert of Egypt and Saudi Arabia...
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