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Tropical Storm Chanchu
Published May 12, 2006
Tropical Storm Chanchu formed in the western Pacific on May 8, 2006, roughly 500 miles east of the Philippines. The storm had been gradually building strength and size, but as of May 11, 2006, it remained a slow moving storm with only hints of developing stronger cyclonic...
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Dust storm in the Sahara Desert
Published May 11, 2006
This MODIS image, acquired by the Terra satellite on May 10, 2006, shows a dust storm in the Sahara Desert in Africa. This dust storm spans several countries...
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Fires in Florida
Published May 10, 2006
A number of wildfires burned in Eastern Florida on May 7, 2006, clouding the skies with smoke. At 6,000 acres, the largest of the fires was the Areca Fire burning in Palmetto, pines, and grasses...
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Scotland
Published May 9, 2006
This image of Scotland was acquired May 5, 2006 by the MODIS on the Aqua satellite. Scotland occupies the northern part of Great Britain and is about two-thirds the size of England and Wales...
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Seasonal Floods in Queensland, Australia
Published May 8, 2006
Near the eastern border of Australia’s dry interior, an intricate network of riverbeds and streams cut across the ancient clay soil, a floodplain that water forgot. Called the Channel Country, the region receives very little rain and only flows with water after summer monsoon rains drench...
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Marcial Fire in New Mexico
Published May 7, 2006
Just to the south of the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge along the Rio Grande in southwestern New Mexico, a large fire was billowing out a thick plume of smoke when the MODIS on NASA’s Aqua satellite passed overhead on May 4, 2006. According to a local news report, the fire is burning...
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Fires and Smoke in Western Russia
Published May 6, 2006
Each of the red dots on this image of western Russia, acquired on May 1, 2006 by the MODIS on the Aqua satellite, corresponds to a fire! The hundreds of fires...
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Phytoplankton and Sulfur off the coast of Namibia
Published May 5, 2006
What looks like a phytoplankton bloom off the coast of Namibia, may be something totally different! This image, acquired May 1, 2006 by the MODIS on the Aqua satellite, shows green swirls in the water, off the desert coast of Africa...
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Smoke over Scandinavia and Russia
Published May 4, 2006
Spring agricultural fires were burning in western Russia throughout the end of April and early May 2006. The smoke from these fires has been spreading northward over Eastern Europe, Scandinavia...
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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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Fires in Southern Mexico
Published May 1, 2006
In southern Mexico, numerous fires were burning in the area between Lake Cuitzeo in the state of Michoacán and the Sierra Madre del Sur...
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