Start Date: End Date: Published Date Data Date
Icebergs in the Ross Sea, Antarctica
117 x 150 PNG
Published January 5, 2005
As winter deepens its hold across the Northern Hemisphere, summer shows its face in the Southern Hemisphere. At the southernmost extreme is Antarctica, which even at its most balmy is covered in ice and painted in shades of black and white. In the center of the scene are a number of large icebergs, including the huge B-15A iceberg, which calved...
Related images:
700 x 900 128 KB - JPEG
1400 x 1800 432 KB - JPEG
2800 x 3600 1 MB Bytes - JPEG
Phytoplankton bloom in Shark Bay, Western Australia
113 x 150 PNG
The vibrant blue colors visible in this image of Shark Bay, Western Australia are caused by phytoplankton blooms. The bay is located in the Western part of Australia, about 800 kilometers (500 miles) North of Perth. Shark Bay is a United Nations ...
300 x 400 32 KB - JPEG
600 x 800 94 KB - JPEG
1200 x 1600 228 KB - JPEG
Fires and smoke in eastern Russia
190 x 149 PNG
Smoke from numerous fires (shown as red dots) obscure the Eastern coastline of the Russian Federation and the island of Sakhalin. In recent years, researchers have emphasized the importance of boreal (Northern) forests as a reservoir for carbon, which is related to the problem of global warming. The burning of forests...
1400 x 1100 368 KB - JPEG
2800 x 2200 1 MB Bytes - JPEG
5600 x 4400 3 MB - JPEG
Dust Storm over the Persian Gulf
120 x 150 PNG
Tan clouds of airborne dust obscured the Persian Gulf when the Terra MODIS instrument flew over the region to collect this image on January 7, 2005. The dust is blowing out of Iraq and Iran in the northwest where winds were reported to be blowing at 13 kilometers per hour (8 mph) near the coast. MODIS also...
400 x 500 47 KB - JPEG
800 x 1000 156 KB - JPEG
1600 x 2000 402 KB - JPEG
Southern Chile and Argentina
125 x 150 PNG
he rugged, snow-capped Andes dominate the left side of this image of Southern Chile and Argentina. The Andes measure approximately 7000 kilometers (4400 miles) long and 500 kilometers (300 miles) wide and range along the West coast of South America. The light-colored landscape...
1000 x 1200 310 KB - JPEG
2000 x 2400 1008 KB Bytes - JPEG
4000 x 4800 3 MB - JPEG
Uruguay and Argentina
190 x 147 PNG
From the flat grasslands of Argentina, known as the Pampas, the terrain of southern South America transitions to gently rolling hills in Uruguay, and still more in southern Brazil. This true-color Terra MODIS image, acquired on December 31, 2004, features the region through which two of South America's major rivers...
1100 x 850 314 KB - JPEG
2200 x 1700 1 MB Bytes - JPEG
4400 x 3400 3 MB - JPEG
Fires in Eastern Australia
115 x 150 PNG
Numerous fires – depicted as red dots in this image- continue to rage across Eastern Australia. The coastline seen here extends from above Cairns in the upper right portion of the image to just below Brisbane in the lower right part of the image; the Great Barrier Reef is visible on the right. Natural or "wild" fire is an...
1000 x 1300 383 KB - JPEG
2000 x 2600 1 MB Bytes - JPEG
4000 x 5200 3 MB - JPEG
Phytoplankton bloom off Argentina
Brilliant streaks of blue and duller swirls of green color the South Atlantic Ocean in this Terra MODIS image acquired on January 4, 2005. The colors are a result of millions of microscopic plants growing near the surface of the water. Generally called phytoplankton, some varieties of the plants, called coccolithophores...
500 x 650 40 KB - JPEG
1000 x 1300 130 KB - JPEG
2000 x 2600 326 KB - JPEG
Cloud vortices off the Crozet Islands, south Indian Ocean
190 x 143 PNG
Cloud vortices- the interesting patterns seen here- are produced by the flow of air in the atmosphere. Clouds are made up of many small droplets of water or ice crystals, formed around what is called a condensation nucleus, which could be a small particle of dust, ash, or smoke. They reflect all visible wavelengths of sunlight...
400 x 300 25 KB - JPEG
800 x 600 88 KB - JPEG
1600 x 1200 234 KB - JPEG
Solar eclipse over North Africa
On October 3, 20005, observers in Europe and Africa, as well as parts of Asia, saw a partial eclipse of the Sun. Solar eclipses occur when the Earth, Moon, and Sun are all in a straight line with the Moon in the middle. This particular eclipse was an annular...
1400 x 1800 409 KB - JPEG
5600 x 7200 4 MB - JPEG
Haze over Eastern China
118 x 150 PNG
A thick layer of haze obscures the coastline in this image of Eastern China. Beijing (China´s capital and second largest city) is located in the upper left portion of the image, while Shanghai (China´s largest city and the word´s largest port) is located in the lower right portion of the image. Haze is a generic term for visible air pollution...
1100 x 1400 343 KB - JPEG
2200 x 2800 1 MB Bytes - JPEG
4400 x 5600 3 MB - JPEG
Phytoplankton bloom off Australia
The vibrant blue colors visible in this image are caused by phytoplankton blooms. The coastline is located in the Southwestern portion of Australia, several hundred kilometers East of Perth. The body of water seen here is a part of the Great Australia Bight, a large, open bay in the Southern Ocean. The shoreline is comprised mostly of high...
600 x 450 56 KB - JPEG
1200 x 900 204 KB - JPEG
2400 x 1800 550 KB - JPEG