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Dust Storm in Australia
Published January 5, 2005
Plumes of greyish-tan dust streak across the Great Artesian Basin in this true-color Aqua MODIS image from February 2, 2005. Northern Territory, Queensland, and South Australia's deserts are painted in shades of salmon, brown, tan, green, and white under the veils, while bright...
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Snow over Northern Africa
Winter weather descended on Northern Africa on January 26 and 27, 2005, leaving parts of Algeria and Morroco white with snow. This rare storm—the worst in over 50 years—brought chaos to the roadways of the normally arid region. As the clouds began to move away on January 28, the Terra MODIS instrument captured these images of the snow. The top image shows the region in true color, as the human eye would see it. In this image...
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Volcanic haze from Sierra Negra Volcano, Galapagos Islands
Ash from eruptions of the Sierra Negra volcano obscures this image of the Galapagos Islands. The ash appears hazy, as opposed to the more solid-looking white and whitish-grey features (which are clouds). Sierra Negra is a shield volcano...
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Taklimakan Desert, Western China
The light tans of the Taklimakan Desert are bounded by the snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas in this image of Western China. To the North is the snow-covered Tian Shan Mountain range and to the South are the rugged Kunlun Mountains. The lower left corner of the image is the Karakoram Mountain range...
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Dust Storm off Egypt
A dense plume of tan dust blows out of the Great Sand Sea of northeastern Libya and northwestern Egypt in this true-color Aqua MODIS image from February 28, 2005. The plume extends...
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Dust storm over the Yellow Sea
Dust obscures the emerald and gold waters of the Yellow Sea (Huang Hai) in this image of Eastern China. The Yellow Sea takes its name from the Yellow River, or Huang He, which in turn is named for the yellow silt that colors it. This silt is carried by the river from the Loess Plateau...
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Icebergs in the Ross Sea, Antarctica
While the B-15A iceberg remains stuck in the McMurdo Sound, blocking trapped sea ice from floating away to melt in the warmer summer waters of the Ross Sea, the B-15J iceberg is slowly moving toward the Ross Ice Shelf and Ross Island. This set of true-color Terra MODIS images shows the roundish iceberg slowly rotating counter-clockwise...
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Dust storm off Alaska
A massive dust storm of glacial sediments swept off the coast of Alaska on November 5, 2005; this image captured the storm as it dispersed over the Gulf of Alaska. Dust appears as a pale beige plume, standing out from both the snowy landscape and ocean water underneath it. The plume comes from the...
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Cyclone Percy
Cyclone Percy continued its rampage across the South Pacific on March 1, 2005, after battering the Northern Cook Islands with its powerful 260-kilometer-per-hour wind gusts. This Aqua MODIS image, acquired at 2:40 a.m. local time on February 28 (00:40 UTC on March 1), shows that the storm now has a clearly defined eye. When the image was taken, Percy had...
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Dust Storm over Libya and Egypt
A thin sheet of dust blew northeastward from deserts in northern Africa and out across the Mediterranean Sea (upper right) on March 1, 2005. The orange-colored sands of eastern Algeria are thickly veiled with light-colored dust, which thins as it spreads more widely over Tunisia and Libya. The dust weaves both under and over clouds in different places...
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Tasmania
The vibrant greens in this image depict the forests of Tasmania. The island is a part of Australia, located some 240 kilometers (150 miles) off of its extreme Southeastern tip. Tasmania is fairly large, measuring about 68,000 square kilometers (26,000 miles). Over a third of the island is maintained...
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Typhoon Bolaven approaching the Philippines
Typhoon Bolaven was approaching the Philippines when this image was acquired on November 18, 2005. At that time, it was projected to strike the coastline on November 19, 2005. The storm is currently a relatively weak...
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