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Typhoon Ewiniar
Published July 6, 2006
Typhoon Ewiniar formed in the western Pacific on June 29, 2006, a hundred miles south of the Yap Islands in the Federated States of Micronesia. The tropical depression gathered power and size as it traveled...
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Amazon Greener in Dry Season than Wet
Published July 5, 2006
The Amazon Basin (black outline) stretches across the heart of South America. Much of the area is covered by rainforests. Layer upon layer of amazingly diverse plants and trees reaches from the forest floor to the tree tops. With all this lush plant life, it can be hard to believe that parts of the Amazon go months...
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Sicily
Published July 4, 2006
This image of Sicily and the surrounding region was acquired by the MODIS on the Aqua satellite on July 2, 2006. The red dots represent active fires in the region....
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Fires in Central Africa
Published June 29, 2006
Hundreds, possibly thousands of agricultural fires were burning in the central African countries of Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Zambia on June 24, 2006. Each red dot on this image from the MODIS on NASA’s Aqua satellite shows the location of an active fire...
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Phytoplankton Bloom in the Black Sea
Published June 27, 2006
This image of the Black Sea, acquired on June 20, 2006, by the MODIS on the Aqua satellite, shows swirling blooms of phytoplankton coloring the surface waters blue and green. The large volume of freshwater flowing...
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Italy and France
Published June 25, 2006
This MODIS Terra image, acquired June 12, 2006, provides a nice view of Northern Italy, France, and part of Switzerland.In the east is Northern Italy. In the lower right hand corner of the image are the islands of Corsica and the tip...
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Flooding in Bangladesh
Published June 23, 2006
Northeastern Bangladesh disappeared under monsoon floods as rains drenched the region in June 2006. By June 21, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured the top image, the floods stretched across hundreds of kilometers of what had been dry land a month earlier. According to...
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The Middle East
Published June 22, 2006
This MODIS Terra image of the Middle East was acquired on June 5, 2006. The green Nile Delta, in Egypt (to the west) contrasts with the surrounding desert areas. To the east of the Nile, two forks of the Red Sea surround the Sinai Peninsula. The left branch is the...
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Dust Storm in Chad
Published June 19, 2006
A dust storm blew through part of eastern Chad on June 11, 2006. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) flying onboard NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image of the storm...
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Saharan Dust Storm
Published June 11, 2006
A Saharan dust storm originating in Mali blew off the west coast of Africa on June 6, 2006. The MODIS flying onboard NASA’s Terra satellite took this picture the same day. The dust plumes are the thickest...
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Mount Merapi
Published June 9, 2006
This is an image of Mount Merapi, acquired by the MODIS on the Terra satellite on June 6, 2006. A red square marks the volcano’s summit; this “hotspot” is where the satellite sensor detected unusually warm surface temperatures. A gray plume emerges...
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Negeethluk River Fire in southwestern Alaska
Published June 8, 2006
This image of the Neegethluk River Fire was captured June 4, 2006 by the MODIS on the Terra Satellite. This fire was started by lightening, sometime...
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