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Eruption of Soufriere Hills Volcano
Published May 25, 2006
On Saturday, May 20, 2006, Montserrat’s residents were warned to stay inside as the Soufriere Hills Volcano covered much of the small Caribbean island in 5 to 7 centimeters (2 to 3 inches) of volcanic ash and pebbles. Likewise, air traffic...
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Large Fires in Mongolia
Published May 3, 2006
Large fires were burning at the border of Russia and Mongolia on May 1, 2006, when the MODIS on NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over the region. The actively burning portions of the fires...
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Flooding in Iceland
Published May 2, 2006
Most spring floods are triggered by rain or melting snow, but when the Skafta River of southern Iceland flooded in late April 2006, geologic activity may have been the driver. The river flows out...
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Eruption of Barren Island volcano, Andaman Sea
Published April 9, 2006
The eruption of a volcano on Barren Island is featured in this image acquired on April 4, 2006. The island, a part of India, is located in the Andaman Sea, sandwiched in between the Bay of Bengal to the north and the Indian Ocean to the south. It is the only active volcano that is...
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Dust storm in Taklimakan Desert, Western China
Published February 21, 2006
The Taklimakan Desert in northwest China is a vast region of sand desert sitting in a depression between two high, rugged mountain ranges. The Taklimakan's rolling sand dunes stretch out over about 125,000 square miles in the Xinjiang region of China. The desert is hemmed in to the north by ...
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Phytoplankton bloom off Chile
Published February 17, 2006
A phytoplankton bloom creates a vibrant blue cloud off of the coast of Chile. Phytoplankton are tiny, microscopic plants that form the base of the food web in marine ecosystems; they are consumed by zooplankton, or microscopic animals, which in turn are eaten by variety of fish, whales, and birds. Often blooms such as this one...
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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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Phytoplankton bloom off Australia
Published January 5, 2005
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...
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Cape Verde Islands
Cape Verde, an island country in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa, is clearly visible in this image acquired on October 17, 2005. The islands total about 4,000 square kilometers (1,500 square miles) in area, slightly larger than the State of Rhode Island in the United States. The islands were claimed by Portugal in 1456...
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Ash Plume from Kamchatka
Russia´s Shiveluch and Klyuchevskaya Volcanoes continue to change to erupt and paint their flanks with grey ash, as shown in this set of images from the Terra MODIS instrument acquired on March 17, 2005. Of the two, Shiveluch (near center) has been producing the most ash and smoke, yet in this image it is Klyuvechskaya (lower left) that is producing...
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Cloud vortices off Guadalupe Island, near Baja California
Cloud vortices- the striking patterns seen in this image- 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: a small particle of dust, ash, or smoke. They reflect all visible wavelengths of sunlight...
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Fires in the Dominican Republic and Haiti
Smoke pours from fires burning in the Dominican Republic in this Aqua MODIS image taken on March 18, 2005. MODIS detected several fires, which have been marked with red squares, but the most intense are burning in the center of the island. The majority of the fires set on the island are probably agricultural fires set...
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