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Floods in Central Europe
Published April 10, 2006
The Danube River was one of many rivers that overflowed in early April 2006 after being inundated with heavy rain and melting snow. Floods on rivers throughout Central Europe have forced hundreds of people from their homes, reported the Associated Press. Large tracts of land along the Danube in Hungary...
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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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Fires in the Yucatan and Central America
Published April 8, 2006
On April 4, 2006, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image showing numerous fires (marked in red) burning across the Yucatan Peninsula (top center), and the Central American countries to the south: Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua. Although MODIS cannot tell the cause of fires...
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Cyclone Hubert over northwest Australia
Published April 7, 2006
Tropical Cyclone Hubert was a Category 2 storm when this image was acquired on April 6, 2006. It began as a tropical low, moving erratically in the Indian Ocean before strengthening into a Category 1 storm on April 5. The cyclone also began moving in a southwesterly direction...
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Namibia
Published April 6, 2006
The Skeleton Coast of Namibia is featured in this image acquired on April 4, 2006. The Skeleton Coast is considered to be one of the most desolate and remote regions in the world. It takes its name from the numerous shipwrecks that...
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Fires in western Iceland
Published April 5, 2006
A brush fire burns several farms in this image of western Iceland acquired on March 30, 2004. According to various news reports, the fires began when dry grasses ignited – the cause of which is currently unknown. The fire had consumed at least 50 square...
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Snow and ice covering the Great Lakes region
Published April 4, 2006
Snow and ice covered the Great Lakes region when this image was acquired on March 26, 2006. Snow and ice, both on the land and in the oceans (as well as fresh-water lakes and rivers), comprise the global cryosphere, from the Greek word 'kruos' or frost. Other components of the cryosphere include ice sheets, caps, and shelves,...
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Lake Natron, Tanzania
Published April 3, 2006
The Serengeti Plain of Tanzania and Kenya dominate this image of Southeastern Africa. The savanna (grassland with sparse trees) region is renowned for its biological diversity, especially the so-called “big five”: elephants, lions, leopards, rhinos, and Cape buffalo. Some of the oldest fossils...
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Crete
Published April 2, 2006
Crete, the largest island belonging to Greece, is featured in this image acquired on March 28, 2006. The mainland portion of Greece, numerous other Greek isles, and Turkey are also visible in the image, distributed across the top of the image from left to right, respectively. A small portion of Africa (Libya’s Banghazi region)...
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Floods in Western Australia
Published March 6, 2006
As cyclones go, Cyclone Emma was weak, forming just before coming ashore with winds gusting to less than 49 knots or 56 miles per hour (1 knot = 1.15 mph). The storm did, however, drape itself over the whole of Western Australia on March 1, 2006, bringing a deluge of rain. In the midst of its wet season...
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Tropical Cyclone Carina
Published March 5, 2006
Tropical Cyclone Carina appears as a tightly wound spiral in the Indian Ocean in this satellite view of the storm, obtained by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA’s Aqua satellite on February 27, 2006. Carina had become an organized storm system four days earlier, and built rapidly into a powerful cyclone. By the time MODIS obtained this observation of Carina...
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Afghanistan
Published March 4, 2006
A dense pack of snow and ice covers the rugged, mountainous landscape of Afghanistan in this image acquired on February 27, 2006. MODIS images such as this one are an important tool used to measure snowfall; snow melt from the mountains of Afghanistan is an important source of the country’s fresh water supply. Snow is also a major natural hazard in this region...
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