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Dust Storms Over Iraq
Published January 5, 2005
On August 8, 2005, a cloud of dust struck the city of Baghdad, Iraq. Over 1,000 cases of suffocation and other respiratory ailments were reported at local hospitals. The storm looked a like a thick, orange-brown fog that forced traffic to a...
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Eruptions of Ulawun, Langila, and Rabaul volcanoes, New Britain
Three volcanoes are simultaneously erupting on the island of New Britain, Papua New Guinea. The first, Ulawun (located in the center-right of the island), is a stratovolcano, which is a steep, conical volcano built by thick lava flows. It is very active, erupting...
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Dust Storm off Morocco
A long swath of dust, visible on the left portion of the image, is blowing from the Western Sahara into the Atlantic Ocean. The islands in the lower left are a part of the Canary Islands, a possession of Spain. Also visible is the...
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Western Mongolia
The rugged and remote Altai Mountains (running diagonally from the upper left to lower right of the image) tower over the surrounding basin of desert, steppe, forest, and taiga ecosystems. The large lake at the top of the image is Uvs Nuur, which is approximately the size...
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Hurricane Irene off Eastern US
As of 5 a.m., August 18, Irene was classified as a “tropical storm”. At that time, Irene was located about 625 km (385 miles) south-southeast of Newfoundland, Canada. When this image was acquired on August 15, Irene was considerably...
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First Complete Day from MODIS
Published June 30, 2000
This image of Earth is a composite of the first full day of data gathered by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on the Terra spacecraft.
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