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New Satellite Maps
Provide Planners Improved Urban Sprawl Insight
A major advance in satellite-based land surface mapping has
led to the creation of more accurate and detailed maps of our
cities. These maps provide urban planners with a better
understanding of city growth and how rainfall runoff over
paved surfaces impact regional water quality. Click
here for more on this story.
30 May 2001
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Dry Conditions
Continue to Spark Florida Fires
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enlarge image
The dry conditions in Florida
persist with no end in sight and wildfires continue to break out
statewide. This satellite image taken by MODIS
on May 24, 2001 shows a particularly large smoke plume from the
northwest part of the state. The GOES
satellite also captured images of this smoke plume and animation
has been generated of the wildfire. Click
here to view the GOES Florida wildfire animation.
24 May 2001
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Deforestation in
Brazil
The deforestation of the Amazon River Basin is
one of the world's best-known environmental problems. This image shows
fires and smoke plumes near the Xingu River in the Brazilian Amazon.
Fire locations are superimposed in red on the true-color image, taken
by the Moderate-resolution
Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA's Terra
satellite on May 2, 2001.
For
more information on this image and for a larger image and a print
resolution image, click here.
02 May 2001
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Spectacular
UK
May 23rd was a sunny day in most of the UK as can
be seen in this SeaWiFS image.
23 May 2001
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Droughts
Aggravated by Dust in the Wind
15 May 2001
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Wildfires Continue to
Plague Florida
According to news sources,
there were nine large fires burning in Florida Saturday, May 19, and
as many as fifteen fires burning May 21. Florida has been
parched by drought in recent months, and there is still no rain in the
immediate forecast. For
more on this story, click here.
21 May 2001
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Fires in Russia
This scene shows a large number of fires burning across southeastern Russia, releasing a considerable amount of smoke and haze into the
atmosphere over the entire region. This true-color image was acquired on May 13, 2001, by the Moderate-resolution Imaging
Spectroradiometer (MODIS), flying aboard NASA's Terra spacecraft. The many red pixels correspond to the locations of fires burning on the ground.
For
more information and a slightly larger image, click here. For
print resolution, click here.
16 May 2001
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White Sea Tragedy?
EDITORS NOTE: According to Masha
Vorontsova, director of the International Fund for Animal Welfare in Moscow, the situation with
the seal pups in the White Sea is normal. There is no disaster and there never was. For more details, refer to the article entitled
http://www.newscientist.com/
"No Danger" on the New Scientist homepage. Goddard Space Flight Center regrets the earlier errant report.
04 May 2001
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NASA Marks Earth Day With
Majestic Views of Our Home Planet
For
an extensive look at our magnificent planet, visit the Earth
Imaging website by clicking here.
This site is replete
with numerous images and animations of the Earth taken by NASA's
satellite fleet.
19 April 2001
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Asian Dust Storms Make Their
Way East
Before and After photos of the Outer Banks area show Asian
dust blanketing the landscape. For
larger images, click here.
20 April 2001
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Wetter
Upper Atmosphere May Delay Global Ozone Recovery
17 April 2001
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Saharan
Dust "Cools" Climate Warming Estimates
For
more on this story, click here.
12 April 2001
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Iceland's Receding
Glacier
The Breidamerkurjökull
glacier of Iceland
has receded by as much as 2 km since 1973. For
more pictures and animations of this phenomenon, please click here.
10 April 2001
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First
Chapter of Earth's "Biological Record" Documented From Space
For
detailed information about this Earth Science Update, please visit the
website, by clicking here.
27 March 2001
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NASA Satellite Imagery Tracks a Deadly
Algae Bloom
NASA's SEAWiFS (Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor) instrument
captured images showing high concentrations of harmful algae. Reuters has reported that the algae have been blamed for killing
over 700 tons of salmon in recent days at farms on the southern tip of Norway.
For
more images and an animation of this bloom, click here. SeaWiFS imagery courtesy:
NASA/ORBIMAGE
28 March 2001
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NASA
Satellite Tracks Hazardous Smoke and Smog Partnership
15 March 2001
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NASA Image Reveals
Giant Chip Off the Antarctic Ice Block
Click
here for press release, images and animation
22 March 2001
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Disappearing Lake Chad
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For the story, including images and quicktime movies
go to the Lake
Chad website.
27 February 2001
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Cyclone Dera
Cyclone Dera had moved to the southern end of the
Mozambique Channel as of local noon March 11, 2001. This
image was taken by SeaWiFS. 11
March 2001
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Ultra-Long
Duration Balloon
ULDB
"Go" For Second Launch to the Edge of Space
Pictures
and animations of ULDB
08 March 2001
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NASA Satellite Saw
More U.S. Snow in Early Winter; Groundhog May See More Coming
For
the press release and larger images, click here.
02 February 2001
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Sahara Dusting High
winds over the Sahara Desert
sent high concentrations of dust out over the Atlantic Ocean as can be seen in this
SeaWiFS image. The mountainous Canary Islands perturb
the flow leaving slightly clearer air on the lee sides of several of the islands. February
2001
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Virtual Rain, Electronic Storms:
New Tools for Understanding Seasonal Climate Variations
Weather prediction is hard enough. But what are the possibilities for predicting events related to weather?
With new tools being developed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and NASA's ever increasing suite of Earth observations, scientists just might be on the road to estimating future weather-related incidents.
For more on this story, go to the Scientific
Visualization Studio website for details or link to the press
release .
25 January 2001
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NASA'S IMAGE Reveals Earth's Invisible
Magnetic Tail
For more images
and the press release go to the story
page.
25 January 2001
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Galapagos Oil Spill Seen by
SeaWiFS
Click on pic to enlarge
and see San Cristobal Island
SeaWiFS captured this view of the Galapagos Islands on Sunday,
21 January 2001, several days after a tanker ran aground off the western coast of San
Cristobal Island releasing thousands
of gallons of oil into the ocean creating a spill that has grown from 50 to 117 square miles. Aerial photographs show a large
discolored patch in the waters that correspond to a feature seen in the SeaWIFS image.
For more information, go to the SeaWiFS
home page.
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Cracks In The Ice
New Insight Into Antarctic Ice Sheet Failures
Images
and Animations
Press
release
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Happy
New Year!
SeaWiFS
reveals Australian and Tasmanian Glory on New Year's Day.
01 January
2001
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