Start Date: End Date: Published Date Data Date
The World Archipelago, Persian Gulf
3000 x 3000 3 MB - JPEG
Published March 26, 2009
This pair of images from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA’s Terra satellite show the development of the archipelago known as “The World.” The group of manmade islands is arranged to resemble a map of the world.
Related images:
720 x 480 JPEG
3000 x 3000 1 MB - JPEG
Cathedral Fire, Wilson’s Promontory, Victoria
3000 x 3000 16 MB - GeoTIFF
Published March 19, 2009
The Cathedral Fire in Wilson’s Promontory National Park left a large burn scar across the landscape. This image of the burned area was captured on March 14, 2009, the day the fire was officially declared contained.
720 x 720 JPEG
35 KB - KML/KMZ
Bushfires in Southeast Australia
3000 x 3000 4 MB - JPEG
Published March 18, 2009
East of Churchill, Victoria, a burn scar left by one of the deadly Australian bushfires in February 2009 sprawls across the landscape in this image captured by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA’s Terra satellite on March 14.
El Paso, Texas
3200 x 3200 4 MB - JPEG
Published March 15, 2009
Though governed by separate countries, the cities of El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico, merge into an apparently seamless metropolis in this satellite image, but vegetation is confined mostly to the United States' side of the border.
Ashfall from the Karymsky Volcano
3000 x 3000 20 MB - GeoTIFF
Published March 12, 2009
By early March 2009, Karymsky Volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula had stained the snowy white landscape charcoal-brown all the way to the coast.
3300 x 2200 5 MB - JPEG
26 KB - KML/KMZ