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Hurricane Carlotta
Published July 16, 2006
Hurricane Carlotta formed in the eastern Pacific on July 11, 2006 off the Pacific coast of Mexico. The tropical depression gradually gathered power and size as it traveled northwesterly over the next several days, roughly parallel to, but well away from, the Mexican coast. The tropical depression was upgraded to tropical storm status and given the name Carlotta...
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Fires in California
Published July 15, 2006
Several fires were burning in California on July 12, 2006, when the MODIS on NASA’s Aqua satellite passed overhead and captured this image. The places where...
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Hurricane Bud
Published July 14, 2006
Hurricane Bud formed in the eastern Pacific on July 10, 2006 off the Pacific coast of Mexico. The tropical depression gathered power and size rapidly as it traveled northwesterly over the next several days, roughly parallel to, but well away from, the Mexican coast. The tropical ...
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Monsoon Rains Flood Cambodia
Published July 13, 2006
For Cambodia and other countries in Southeast Asia, summer means torrential rains as the monsoon season sets in. The Asian monsoon occurs because of the temperature difference between the land and the Indian Ocean. During the summer, the land gets hotter than the ocean. Hot air ...
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Fires North of Russia’s Lake Baikal
Published July 12, 2006
North of Lake Baikal in south-central Russia, scores of fires were burning in the region’s forests on July 10, 2006. This image of the Irkutsk region was captured by the MODIS on the Aqua satellite - places where MODIS detected actively burning fires are marked in red. A bank...
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Typhoon Ewiniar
Published July 11, 2006
On July 7, 2006, Typhoon Ewiniar swirled in the western Pacific Ocean offshore of China, Taiwan, and the Philippines. The storm began brewing in the area around the Caroline Islands (southeast of the area shown here) on June 29 and moved northwest...
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The Pacific Northwest
Published July 10, 2006
This image of the Pacific Northwest region of the United States (and parts of Canada) was acquired July 3, 2006 by the MODIS on the Terra satellite. In the top left corner of the image is Vancouver Island, the southern portion of which is obscured by clouds. Vancouver is part of the Canadian province of British Columbia, visible also...
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Stromboli Volcano
Published July 9, 2006
On July 2, 2006, the MODIS on the Terra satellite detected a hotspot on the volcanic island of Stromboli, the island in the top center of the image. A hotspot, shown here as a red outline, is an area of elevated surface temperatures. Nearby landmasses shown in this image include the islands of Salina, Lipari, and Vulcano...
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Fires in Central Canada
Published July 8, 2006
Smoke continued to pour from fires in central and western Canada in the first week of July. This image from the MODIS on NASA’s Terra satellite on July 5, 2006, shows thick gray smoke hanging over Alberta...
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Dust Storm over the Red Sea
Published July 7, 2006
Another dust storm blew off the coast of Sudan on July 4, 2006. The MODIS on the Aqua satellite took this picture the same day. In this image, a thick plume of tan dust blows off the coast, near the border with Eritrea, gradually fanning out as it moves over the Red Sea....
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Published July 6, 2006
Typhoon Ewiniar formed in the western Pacific on June 29, 2006, a hundred miles south of the Yap Islands in the Federated States of Micronesia. The tropical depression gathered power and size as it traveled...
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Amazon Greener in Dry Season than Wet
Published July 5, 2006
The Amazon Basin (black outline) stretches across the heart of South America. Much of the area is covered by rainforests. Layer upon layer of amazingly diverse plants and trees reaches from the forest floor to the tree tops. With all this lush plant life, it can be hard to believe that parts of the Amazon go months...
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