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Fires and smoke in Saskatchewan and Manitoba
Published June 30, 2006
Each red dot on this image of Alberta, (far left) Saskatchewan (left), and Manitoba (right), acquired June 26, 2006 by the MODIS on the Terra satellite, represents an active fire. These forest fires in Central Canada, many triggered by lightning...
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Fires in Central Africa
Published June 29, 2006
Hundreds, possibly thousands of agricultural fires were burning in the central African countries of Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Zambia on June 24, 2006. Each red dot on this image from the MODIS on NASA’s Aqua satellite shows the location of an active fire...
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Phytoplankton Bloom off Vancouver Island, British Columbia
Published June 28, 2006
Roll your mouse over this image and you can watch the motion of a phytoplanckton bloom from one day to the next! These two images, from June 25th and 26th were acquired by the MODIS on the Aqua...
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Phytoplankton Bloom in the Black Sea
Published June 27, 2006
This image of the Black Sea, acquired on June 20, 2006, by the MODIS on the Aqua satellite, shows swirling blooms of phytoplankton coloring the surface waters blue and green. The large volume of freshwater flowing...
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Kamchatka Peninsula
Published June 26, 2006
The Kamchatka Peninsula, comparable in size to Japan, is part of the Russian Far East. It's part of the Great Pacific 'Ring of Fire' and has over 160 volcanos, 29 of them active. In the center of Kamchatka...
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Italy and France
Published June 25, 2006
This MODIS Terra image, acquired June 12, 2006, provides a nice view of Northern Italy, France, and part of Switzerland.In the east is Northern Italy. In the lower right hand corner of the image are the islands of Corsica and the tip...
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South Africa and Lesotho
Published June 24, 2006
The mountainous country of Lesotho is completely surrounded by the eastern region of South Africa, as shown is this image, acquired by the MODIS on the Terra satellite on June 6, 2006. Lesotho, which has a long...
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Flooding in Bangladesh
Published June 23, 2006
Northeastern Bangladesh disappeared under monsoon floods as rains drenched the region in June 2006. By June 21, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured the top image, the floods stretched across hundreds of kilometers of what had been dry land a month earlier. According to...
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