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Dust storm in northeastern China
Published January 5, 2005
Thick clouds of dark tan dust sweep across northeastern China in this true-color Aqua MODIS image from April 14, 2005. Focusing on the river valley leading to Liaodong Wan and Bo Hai Bay, strong shades of brown dominate the image. Spring in this part of the world means increased winds and dust storms, making...
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Fires in Mexico and Central America
Hundreds of fires were burning in southern Mexico and the northern Central American countries of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua on April 26, 2005, when this hazy image of the region was captured by the Aqua MODIS instrument. Locations where MODIS detected actively burning fires are marked in red. A thick layer of smoke hovers over; they are heavily concentrated in the Yucatan...
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Dust storm in China
An almost-opaque river of tan dust stretched hundreds of kilometers over China on April 28, 2005. The dust storm originated in the Gobi Desert near the border with Mongolia, blown by powerful winds across the Luliang Mountains, the peaks of which divide the tan cloud that filled the lower valleys...
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Falkland Islands
Also known as the Malvinas, the Falkland islands straddle the Scotia Sea and the South Atlantic Ocean about 480 kilometers (about 300 miles) to the southeast of Argentina. In this true-color Terra MODIS image from April 28, 2005, the three islands stand out in a rich green-brown against the deep blue of water. There are...
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Phytoplankton bloom in the Bay of Biscay
Enormous clouds of rich blue-green phytplankton swirl through the waters of the Bay of Biscay in this true-color Aqua MODIS image acquired April 29, 2005. Stretching across almost the entirety of the Bay, the phytoplankton reveal currents and eddies in the water. Phytoplankton are tiny single-celled organisms that...
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Northern Great Plains
The northern Great Plains of Canada and the United States cover thousands of square miles. This true-color Aqua MODIS image from May 3, 2005, shows a portion of the Great Plains covering Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and a small slice of Ontario, Canada, and Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wyoming, and South Dakota...
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Dust Storm across the Red Sea
An thick snake of tan dust slithers across Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the Red Sea in this dramatic true-color image acquired by the Aqua MODIS instrument on May 13, 2005. The dust is so thick that it is completely opaque for well over 700 miles from the Libyan Desert in western Egypt , across the green ribbon of the Nile and the Arabian Desert of Egypt and Saudi Arabia...
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Fires in Mexico’s Sierra Madre del Sur
Scores of fires were burning in the mountain chains lining Mexico´s Pacific Coast on May 17, 2005. This image shows fires detected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA´s Aqua satellite in the southern...
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Nouveau-Quebec and Hudson Bay
With the coming of spring, the ice on Canada´s Hudson Bay has begun to break up. Large chunks of ice float near the eastern shore of the bay, while the center of the bay, along the right side of the image, remains...
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Smoke across eastern Canada
Smoke continued to pour from fires in the Quebec province of Canada on June 2, 2005. Scores of fires have been burning in the area since the end of May. According to reports from the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Center, at least 20 of the 83 fires...
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Fires and smoke on Kamchatka Peninsula, Eastern Russia
The Sredinnyy Mountain Range runs down the spine of the Kamchatka Peninsula. The volcanic peninsula dips like a dagger into the icy water of the Bering Sea to the east and the Sea of Okhotsk to the west. Dozens of volcanoes are scattered along the mountain range, mostly on the eastern side...
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Quebec and the Hudson Bay
Sea ice on the Hudson Bay breaks up and slowly recedes as the warmer temperatures of spring and summer make their way north into Quebec Province in eastern Canada, shown here in this true-color Terra MODIS image from May 21, 2005. Hudson Bay, and the smaller James Bay that protrudes south between...