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NASA -- Astronaut photograph eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS013&roll=E&frame=67242 ISS013-E-67242 was acquired August 15, 2006, with a Kodak 760C digital camera using a 180 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and the Image Science & Analysis Group, Johnson Space Center. The image in this article has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast. Lens artifacts have also been removed. The spaceflight.nasa.gov/home/index.html...
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The crew of Expedition 13 recently passed a major milestone: as of late August 2006, more than one quarter of a million images of Earth had been taken from the International Space Station. The rate at which Expedition 13 has been photographing the Earth has been record-setting, as they passed the www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/science/240000_pix.html 200,000 th image mark less than two months before. The 250,000 th image is an oblique view (the photograph was taken from a side angle) of the...
Topics: What -- Earth, What -- International Space Station (ISS), What -- Landsat 7, Where -- Christchurch,...
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=6875
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NASA -- NASA images courtesy of the NASA/GSFC/MITI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/ ASTER Science Team.
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Along the coast of Dubai -- one of several emirates comprising the United Arab Emirates -- are human-made islands. When the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov (ASTER) on NASA's terra.nasa.gov Terra satellite took this picture on September 18, 2006, these islands were the largest artificial islands in the world. All of the islands were still under some degree of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Islands construction in the fall of 2006. From south to...
Topics: What -- Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, What -- ASTER, What --...
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=7040
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NASA -- NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/ ASTER Science Team
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Resembling a work of modern art, variegated green crop circles cover what was once shortgrass prairie in southwestern Kansas. The most common crops in this region -- Finney County -- are corn, wheat, and sorghum. Each of these crops was at a different point of development when the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer ( asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/ ASTER ) captured this image on June 24, 2001, accounting for the varying shades of green and yellow. Healthy, growing crops are...
Topics: What -- Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, What -- ASTER, Where --...
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=5772
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Space shuttle Atlantis soars to orbit from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the STS-132 mission to the International Space Station at 2:20 p.m. EDT on May 14. The third of five shuttle missions planned for 2010, this was the last planned launch for Atlantis. Image Credit: NASA/Kenny Allen
Topics: What -- Space Shuttle Orbiter, What -- STS-132, What -- International Space Station ISS, Where --...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1665.html
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NASA -- Image courtesy ciclops.org/index.php CICLOPS team. Image description from ciclops.org/view.php?id=2230 ''In Saturn's Shadow,'' on the CICLOPS Website.
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Although the Earth Observatory typically reserves ''Image of the Day'' space for publishing data and images acquired by Earth-observing satellites, we are sometimes so enthralled by the spectacular images acquired by spacecraft observing other parts of the solar system that we want to share these 'otherworldy' views with our visitors. And if you are looking for remotely sensed images of the Earth, this view is the most remotely sensed image we have ever published! This beautiful image of Saturn...
Topics: What -- Earth, What -- Saturn, What -- Cassini, What -- Sun, What -- Huygens Probe
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=7314
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NASA -- Image provided by the edc.usgs.gov/ USGS EROS Data Center Satellite Systems Branch.
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Each of these swirling clouds is the result of a meteorological phenomenon known as a von Karman vortex. These vortices appeared over Alexander Selkirk Island in the southern Pacific Ocean. Rising precipitously from the surrounding waters, the island's highest point is nearly a mile (1.6 km) above sea level. As wind-driven clouds encounter this obstacle, they flow around it to form large, spinning eddies. This image was acquired by landsat7.usgs.gov/ Landsat 7's Enhanced Thematic Mapper plus...
Topics: What -- Landsat 7, Where -- Pacific Ocean
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=2613
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NASA -- Image courtesy NASA/GSFC/MITI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/ ASTER Science Team
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For almost 2,000 years, the River Thames has served as the life force of London, capital of the United Kingdom and one of the world's most famous cities. In AD 43 the Romans established the trading settlement of Londinium at a favorable crossing point on the river. The Romans remained until the 5th century, when the city came under Saxon control. The early 17th century saw enormous growth, but the deadly plague of 1664 and 1665 ravaged the population, and in the following year the Great Fire,...
Topics: What -- Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, What -- ASTER, What --...
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=3200
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NASA -- Topography map of Hispaniola (top) courtesy NASA's www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/'' target=''_blank Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). Population density map courtesy sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/ '' target=''_blank Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC).
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The skies over Hispaniola opened up on May 24, 2004, and poured as much as 10 inches (25 cm) of rain within a 24-hour span onto an already rain-soaked island that had received as much as 10 inches of rain over the previous week. The torrent triggered flooding and mudslides that ran swiftly down the northern and southern flanks of the Massif de la Salle, straddling the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. As the deluge fanned out on the flood plains below, several villages were...
Topics: Where -- Haiti, Where -- Dominican Republic
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=4566
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Human history isn't confined to books; some of it is written across the surface of the Earth. Among the places where the earth itself tells a story of our past is the French landscape around the city of Verdun, where more than 300,000 French and Germans died during a World War I battle that went on from mid-February to mid-December 1916. In this image, Verdun is a small city on the banks of the Meuse River surrounded by the geometric pattern of farmed and fallow fields. The river is framed by...
Topics: What -- Earth, What -- Landsat 7, Where -- France
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=8211
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NASA -- NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained from the University of Maryland's
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Kiev (also spelled Kyiv) is the capital of Ukraine, the second largest country in Europe (second only to Russia and slightly larger than France). The city's history has long been entwined with Russia's. In the region's early history, Kiev was the capital city of a state that encompassed much of the surrounding lands. Invaded by the Mongols in the 13th century, Kiev fell from primacy, but rebuilt itself and remained a major city power for centuries. It became the capital of the newly independent...
Topics: What -- Landsat 7, Where -- Kiev, Where -- Ukraine, Where -- Russia, Where -- France, Where --...
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=6378
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Solar panels on the Hubble Space Telescope make for unique window shades in this scene photographed from the flight deck of the Earth-orbiting space shuttle...
Topics: NASA Image of the Day (Large), What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Space Shuttle Orbiter,...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1363.html
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NASA -- Astronaut photograph eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS008&roll=E&frame=13212 ISS008-E-13212 was taken on January 26, 2004, using a Kodak digital camera with a 400 mm lens, and was provided by Julie Robinson, Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory (Lockheed Martin), Johnson Space Center. The spaceflight.nasa.gov/ International Space Station Program supports the laboratory to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to...
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This image of the El Paso-Juarez area on the U.S.-Mexico border is the www.jsc.nasa.gov/news/releases/2004/J04-006.html 100,000th photograph of Earth that astronauts have taken from the International Space Station. It was taken on January 26, 2004, by Expedition 8 crewmembers. The Rio Grande can be seen meandering through the area, forming the boundary between the sister cities of El Paso, Texas and Juarez, Chihuahua. North is to the right in this image, and the setting sun has cast the east...
Topics: What -- Earth, What -- International Space Station (ISS), What -- Sun, Where -- Texas
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=4206
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NASA -- Image copyright www.spaceimaging.com/ Space Imaging
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Tucked deep in the Cambodian rainforest, the ancient Angkor Wat temple is considered one of the most valuable architectural sites in Asia. Angkor Wat is the pinnacle of the city of Angkor, capital of the once-powerful Khmer Empire of Southeast Asia. The temple was built by Suryavarman II between 1113 and 1150 AD. Dedicated to the Hindu god Vishnu, Angkor Wat is a representation of Mount Meru, home of the gods and the center of the Hindu universe. In addition to its unique pyramid temple...
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=5112
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
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When astronauts photograph /Features/CitiesAtNight/page1.php cities at night, the pattern of lights often hint at the influence of terrain on urban growth. Lights stop abruptly at unseen barriers that could be rivers, oceans, or mountain ridges. This image of the Los Angeles metropolitan area shows the topographic details that are often hidden in the darkness. In this image, an /IOTD/view.php?id=3352 astronaut photograph of the Los Angeles area is overlaid on a topographic image made from the...
Topics: What -- Mercury, What -- Earth, Where -- Los Angeles, Where -- United States of America, Where --...
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=8708
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NASA -- Image courtesy NASA/GSFC/MITI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/ ASTER Science Team
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Namib-Naukluft National Park is an ecological preserve in the Namib Desert in southwest Africa, thought to be Earth's oldest desert. The park is the largest game park in Africa, and a surprising collection of creatures manages to survive in the hyper-arid region, including snakes, geckos, unusual insects, hyenas, and jackals. More moisture comes in as a fog off the Atlantic Ocean than falls as rain, with the average 63 millimeters of rainfall per year concentrated in the months of February and...
Topics: What -- ASTER, Where -- Atlantic Ocean
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=3866
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NASA -- Images Copyright www.digitalglobe.com/ DigitalGlobe
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eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/5000/5125/srilanka_kalutara_flood_dec26_2004_dg.jpg Detail, December 26, 2004 (760 kB JPEG) eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/5000/5125/srilanka_kalutara_beforeflood_jan1_2004_dg.jpg Detail, January 1, 2004 (590 kB JPEG) eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/5000/5125/srilanka_kalutara_ov_dec26_2004_dg.jpg Overview, December 26, 2004 (1.1 MB JPEG) eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/5000/5125/srilanka_kalutara_ov_jan1_2004_dg.jpg...
Topics: Where -- Indian Ocean, Where -- Indonesia, Where -- Sri Lanka
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=5125
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In the southeastern corner of the Baltic Sea lies a skinny stretch of land. Known as the Curonian (or Courland) Spit, it separates the Curonian Lagoon (also known as the Courland Lagoon) from the Baltic Sea. Just 3,800 meters (about 12,460 feet) at its widest point, the spit encloses a lagoon of some 1,620 square kilometers (625 square miles). On July 25, 2006, the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/ (ASTER) , flying on NASA's terra.nasa.gov/...
Topics: What -- Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, What -- ASTER, What --...
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=8179
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NASA -- Image eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS001&roll=E&frame=5011 ISS01-E-5011 was provided by the eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ Earth Science and Image Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center
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November 2000--A mass of storm clouds was observed and recorded from the International Space Station (ISS) by the Expedition 1 crew members. The picture, made with an Electrical Still Camera (ESC), was the first Earth observation still image downlinked by the three-man crew. Crew members are cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, flight engineer; astronaut William Shepherd, mission commander; and cosmonaut Yuri Gidzenko, Soyuz commander. Because the ISS communication system is still under construction,...
Topics: Who -- Sergei Krikalev, Who -- William Shepherd, Who -- Yuri Gidzenko, What -- International Space...
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=972
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The Crab Nebula, the result of a supernova noted by Earth-bound chroniclers in 1054 A.D., is filled with mysterious filaments that are are not only tremendously complex, but appear to have less mass than expelled in the original supernova and a higher speed than expected from a free explosion. The Crab Nebula spans about 10 light-years. In the nebula's very center lies a pulsar: a neutron star as massive as the Sun but with only the size of a small town. The Crab Pulsar rotates about 30 times...
Topics: What -- Earth, What -- Sun
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1604.html
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Jupiter's moon Europa has a crust made up of blocks, which are thought to have broken apart and 'rafted' into new positions, as shown in the image on the left. These features are the best geologic evidence to date that Europa may have had a subsurface ocean at some time in its past. Combined with the geologic data, the presence of a magnetic field leads scientists to believe an ocean is most likely present at Europa today. In this false color image, reddish-brown areas represent non-ice...
Topics: Europa, What -- Moon, What -- Europa, What -- Crater, What -- Galileo, Where -- Arizona
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1339.html
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Before the late eighteenth century, residents of England didn't necessarily take much interest in the rocks under their feet. The arrival of the Industrial Revolution, however, drew the attention of the country's entrepreneurs downward. England's industrialists began plunging deep underground for coal -- the fossilized remains of ancient swamps -- and carving canals across the countryside to transport it efficiently. In this environment, a geologist named William Smith managed to marry his...
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Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=8733
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NASA -- Image Courtesy www.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/ SRTM Team NASA/JPL/NIMA
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This image of the world was generated with data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). The SRTM Project has recently released a new global data set called SRTM30, where the original one arcsecond of latitude and longitude resolution (about 30 meters, or 98 feet, at the equator) was reduced to 30 arcseconds (about 928 meters, or 3045 feet.) This image was created from that data set and shows the world between 60 degrees south and 60 degrees north latitude, covering 80% of the Earth's...
Topics: What -- Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, What -- SRTM
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=3741
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The Apollo 16 crew captured this Earthrise with a handheld Hasselblad camera during the second revolution of the moon. Identifiable craters seen on the moon include Saha, Wyld and Saenger. Much of the terrain seen here is never visible from the Earth, as the command module was passing onto what is known as the 'dark side' of the moon. Apollo 16 launched on April 16, 1972 and landed on the moon on April 20. The mission was commanded by John Young; Thomas K. Mattingly II was the command module...
Topics: Earthrise, Who -- John Young, What -- Apollo 16, What -- Moon
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1335.html
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NASA -- NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data provided by Laura Rocchio, landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Landsat Project Science Office.
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A deep red burn scar stretched across a remote section of Yellowstone's Central Plateau on August 9, 2006, when the Landsat 5 satellite captured this image. The land was freshly charred by the Magpie Fire, which was still burning when the image was acquired. The fire was burning about seven miles east of Madison Junction (just beyond the left edge of the image) near the center of Yellowstone National Park. The fire burned through lodgepole-pine forest, the type of forest that covers 80 percent...
Topics: What -- Landsat 5, Where -- Madison, Where -- Douglas
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=6960
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NASA -- Image by Reto Stöckli, Render by Robert Simmon. Based on data from the modarch.gsfc.nasa.gov/ MODIS Science Team
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This spectacular Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) ''blue marble'' image is based on the most detailed collection of true-color imagery of the entire Earth to date. Using a collection of satellite-based observations, scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface, oceans, sea ice, and clouds into a seamless, true-color mosaic of every square kilometer (.386 square mile) of our planet. Most of the information contained in this image...
Topics: What -- Earth, What -- Polar, What -- Visible Light
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=2181
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NASA -- Image Courtesy www.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/ SRTM Team NASA/JPL/NIMA
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This image of South America was generated with data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission www.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/ (SRTM). For this broad view the resolution of the data was first reduced to 30 arcseconds (about 928 meters north-south but variable east-west), matching the best previously existing global digital topographic data set called edcdaac.usgs.gov/gtopo30/gtopo30.html GTOPO30. The data were then resampled to a Mercator projection with approximately square pixels (about one kilometer,...
Topics: What -- Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, What -- SRTM, What -- Space Shuttle Endeavour, What --...
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=3581
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NASA -- NASA image by Robert Simmon, using TRMM data provided by Guojun Gu and Robert Adler, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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NASA and University of Maryland scientists have found that the African monsoon consists of two distinct seasons. The first monsoon season occurs in late spring or early summer, centered about 5 degrees north of the equator, while the second monsoon arrives later in the summer, typically in late July, about 10 degrees north of the equator. The maps above were derived using data collected by NASA's trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov'' target=''_blank Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM). The images compare...
Topics: What -- Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), What -- CONTOUR, Where -- Maryland
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=4576
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NASA -- Image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC
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A wall of Saharan Desert dust that was captured in an image from earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=11980 March 3, 2004, had billowed out over the Atlantic and begun to spread northward by the next day. The leading edge of the dust storm in several places was advancing at speeds of up to 50 km per hour. The above image of the massive plume of dust was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), aboard NASA's Terra satellite on...
Topics: What -- Terra, Where -- Morocco
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=4289
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NASA -- Image by Robert Simmon, NASA's Earth Observatory, based on data copyright www.spaceimaging.com/ Space Imaging
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The Grand Canal curves in a great ''S'' through the heart of the red tile roofs of Venice, Italy, in this Ikonos image, acquired on April 2, 2001. The Canal is the main thorough-fare through the city, which is built on 118 tiny islands linked by canals and bridges. The city sits in the center of the Laguna Venetta, three kilometers from the Italian mainland and three kilometers from the Adriatic Sea. Boats, the primary form of transportation, can be seen as small white strips in the Grand Canal...
Topics: What -- Aqua, Where -- Italy, Where -- Adriatic Sea
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=4582
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NASA -- Image courtesy landsat7.usgs.gov/ USGS Landsat 7 team, at the edc.usgs.gov/ EROS Data Center.
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This true-color image was taken by the Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) aboard the Landsat 7 satellite on September 12, 2001, at roughly 11:30 a.m. Eastern Daylight Savings Time. Visit the NASA home page for www.nasa.gov/newsinfo/WTCplume.html photos from the space station and MODIS, and GlobalSecurity.org for www.globalsecurity.org/eye/wtc.htm images from other satellites.
Topics: What -- Landsat 7, What -- Landsat
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=1755
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NASA -- Eclipse photo, top, copyright Steve Albers, Dennis DiCicco, and Gary Emerson. Mir photo, bottom, copyright Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES).
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earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/Images/albers_eclipse_lrg.jpg Photo, July 11, 1991 (2.4 MB JPEG) earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/Images/albers_eclipse_mir_lrg.jpg Mir Photo, August 11, 1999 (210 kB) Like the beam of a flashlight in reverse, the Moon casts its shadow over the Earth when it moves in front of the Sun during a total solar eclipse. Within this shadow, which measures about 100 miles across, day becomes night for a few minutes as the Sun's disk turns black...
Topics: What -- Russian Mir Space Station, What -- Beam, What -- Moon, What -- Earth, What -- Sun, Where --...
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=6413
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NASA -- Image provided by the edc.usgs.gov/ USGS EROS Data Center Satellite Systems Branch as part of the Earth as Art II image series
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Meandering wadis combine to form dense, branching networks across the stark, arid landscape of southeastern Jordan. The Arabic word ''wadi'' means a gulley or streambed that typically remains dry except after drenching, seasonal rains. This scene was acquired by the ASTER instrument on NASA's Terra satellite on May 17, 2001.
Topics: What -- ASTER, What -- Terra, Where -- Jordan
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=4463
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NASA -- Image copyright www.digitalglobe.com/ Digital Globe
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Mount Vesuvius is more dangerous than previously thought, says a new study published in the March 21, 2006, issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. About 3,780 years ago, a massive eruption buried land and villages as far as 25 kilometers northwest of the volcano -- a region that today includes the city of Naples, Italy, and has a population of more than three million people. Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo, Pierpaolo Petrone, Lucia Pappalardo, and Michael Sheridan discovered an...
Topic: Where -- Italy
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=6403
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The Wilkins Ice Shelf, on the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula, experienced multiple disintegration events in 2008. By the beginning of 2009, a...
Topic: NASA Image of the Day
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1341.html
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Located about 5,000 light years from Earth, this composite image shows the Rosette star formation region. Data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory are colored red and outlined by a white line. The X-rays reveal hundreds of young stars in the central cluster and fainter clusters on either side. Optical data from the Digitized Sky Survey and the Kitt Peak National Observatory (purple, orange, green and blue) show large areas of gas and dust, including giant pillars that remain behind after intense...
Topic: What -- Earth
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/482251main_rosette_nebula_full.jpg
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NASA -- Astronaut photograph http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS007&roll=E&frame=15222 ISS007-E-15222 was taken from the International Space Station on September 22, 2003 with a Kodak DCS760 digital camera equipped with an 400mm lens. Image content was provided by M. Justin Wlkinson (Lockheed Martin / Earth Observations Laboratory, Johnson Space Center). The spaceflight.nasa.gov/ International Space Station Program supports the laboratory to help astronauts take...
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The rugged, mineral-rich Andes support some of the world's biggest mines (gold, silver, copper, and more). This image looks down the bull's-eye of Peru's Toquepala copper mine, a steep sided and stepped open-pit mine. Mid-afternoon sunlight on the arid slopes of the central Andes mountains provides an accent to the mine contours. At the surface the open pit is 2.5 kilometers across, and it descends more than 700 meters into the earth. A dark line on the wall of the pit is the main access road...
Topics: What -- Earth, Where -- Peru
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=3869
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In the heart of the Australian Outback, a massive block of red sandstone rises up out of the near-perfect flatness of the eroded landscape. Called Uluru, or Ayer's Rock, this giant is a monolith 348 meters (1,142 feet) high, 3.6 kilometers (2.2 miles) long, and 9.4 kilometers (5.8 miles) around. It is the largest single rock known in the world. Tourists come from all over the country and the world to watch sunrise and sunset bring the colors of the rock to life. Some also make the challenging...
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=5304
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A crisp, clear winter day over France provided the International Space Station a detailed view of the city of Paris. This image, rotated and cropped from the original, shows the recognizable street pattern of the city--and some of the world's most notable landmarks--along the Seine River. One of the main avenues radiating like spokes from the Arc de Triomphe (image upper left) is the Avenue des Champs-Élysees running southeast to the Garden of Tuileries (Jardin des Tuileries). The...
Topics: What -- International Space Station (ISS), What -- Earth, Where -- France, Where -- Paris, Where --...
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=8479
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NASA -- www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Image:Tropical_Storm_Map_png Image by Robert A. Rohde, www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/ Global Warming Art.
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Like streamers of splattered paint, the tracks of nearly 150 years of tropical cyclones weave across the globe in this map. The map is based on all storm tracks available from the National Hurricane Center and the Joint Typhoon Warning Center through September 2006. The accumulation of tracks reveals several details of hurricane climatology, such as where the most severe storms form and the large-scale atmospheric patterns that influence the track of hurricanes. Over time, the repeated passage...
Topics: What -- Coriolis, Where -- Ecuador, Where -- Namibia, Where -- Angola, Where -- Brazil, What --...
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=7079
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NASA -- Image copyright www.spaceimaging.com/ Space Imaging, Inc.
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Athletes and sports fans from all over the world will soon focus their attention on Athens, Greece -- host city for the www.athens2004.com/ 2004 Summer Olympic Games. This high-resolution image shows the Athens Olympic Sports Complex, where this year's games will be played. Acquired on June 24, 2004, by Space Imaging's IKONOS satellite, the scene shows the complex in stunning detail, including the Olympic Stadium (home of the opening and closing ceremonies), the Olympic Aquatic Center, Olympic...
Topics: What -- TRACE, What -- Spirit, Where -- Athens, Where -- Greece, Where -- Olympia, Where -- Pierre
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=4739
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NASA -- Images courtesy of Tad Pfeffer, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado. Detailed image credits: 1) Columbia Glacier c. 1980 by Austin Post, U.S. Geological Survey, 2) Columbia Glacier 2005 by Tad Pfeffer, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, 3) Arapaho Glacier 1898 by R.S. Brackett, published in Waldrop, R.S. (1964) Arapaho Glacier: A Sixty Year Record. University of Colorado Studies, Series in Geology, No 3, and 4) Arapaho Glacier...
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/images/imagerecords/5000/5668/glacier_columbia_2005.jpg Columbia Glacier 2005 /images/imagerecords/5000/5668/glacier_arapaho_1898.jpg Arapaho Glacier 1898 /images/imagerecords/5000/5668/glacier_arapaho_2003.jpg Arapaho Glacier 2003 Average global sea level rises and falls in response to climate change. When global surface temperatures are low, more snow and ice accumulate on land, and sea level drops. A warmer climate increases melting of glaciers and ice sheets, and sea level rises. The Earth...
Topics: What -- Columbia, What -- Earth, Where -- Colombia, Where -- Colorado, Where -- Alaska
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=5668
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NASA -- NASA images by Lawrence Ong and the eo1.gsfc.nasa.gov/ EO-1 Science Team.
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If you asked almost anyone to describe a tropical island, they would likely mention palm trees and flat, white sandy beaches that stretch for kilometers: they would describe a coral atoll. Coral atolls are normally long, thin bars of white sand that rise just a few meters above sea level. The island or island group surrounds a hollow center where a volcanic peak once was. The atoll shown in this photo-like satellite image is the island of Tureia, in French Polynesia, about 930 kilometers...
Topics: What -- Imager, What -- EO 1, Where -- French Polynesia, Where -- Pitcairn Island
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=6788
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NASA -- NASA image courtesy of Jeff Schmaltz, rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ MODIS Rapid Response Team , NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center.
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Straddling the border between Kazakhstan in the north and Uzbekistan in the south, the Aral Sea was once the fourth-largest lake in the world. Soviet-era irrigation diverted water, earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=13767 shrinking the Sea to less than half of its 1960 extent. Even between 1989 and 2003, the Sea retreated visibly, as a earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16277 comparison of satellite images shows. A dam built to restore...
Topics: What -- Aqua, Where -- Kazakhstan, Where -- Uzbekistan, Where -- Aral Sea
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=6654
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During its mission, the Galileo spacecraft returned a number of images of Earth's only natural satellite. Galileo surveyed the moon on Dec. 7, 1992, on its way to explore the Jupiter system in 1995-1997. This color mosaic was assembled from 18 images taken by Galileo's imaging system through a green filter. On the upperleft is the dark, lava-filled Mare Imbrium, Mare Serenitatis (middle left), Mare Tranquillitatis (lower left), and Mare Crisium, the dark circular feature toward the bottom of...
Topics: What -- Galileo, What -- Moon, What -- Jupiter
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1538.html
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NASA -- Ikonos images copyright www.crisp.nus.edu.sg/ Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing, National University of Singapore and www.spaceimaging.com/ Space Imaging.
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eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/5000/5132/IK_Aceh_zoom_in_new_d.jpg Detail December 29, 2004 (580 kB JPEG) eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/5000/5132/IK_Aceh_zoom_in_old_d.jpg Detail January 10, 2003 (550 kB JPEG) eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/5000/5132/IK_Aceh_zoom_out_new.jpg Overview December 29, 2004 (190 kB JPEG) eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/5000/5132/IK_Aceh_zoom_out_old.jpg Overview January 10, 2003 (120 kB JPEG) The Indonesian province of...
Topics: Where -- Sri Lanka, Where -- Thailand, Where -- Indonesia
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=5132
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
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Like a giant green and brown serpent slithering toward the Mediterranean Sea, the Nile River and its corridor of agriculture contrast sharply with the arid beige surroundings of Egypt. Midway between the lush Nile Delta and Lake Nasser, the Nile bends toward the east. Although it follows the general contours of the river, the farmed floodplain takes a smoother path. The Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus on NASA's Landsat-7 satellite captured this image of the bend in the Nile River on October 19,...
Topics: What -- Landsat 7, What -- Landsat, Where -- Mediterranean Sea, Where -- Egypt
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=8770
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NASA -- Featured astronaut photograph eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=STS118&roll=E&frame=9469 STS118-E-9469 was acquired by the www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts118/main/118_crew.html STS-118 crew on August 19, 2007, with a Kodak 760C digital camera using a 28 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and Image Science & Analysis Laboratory at Johnson Space Center. The image in this article has been enhanced to...
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The crew of the Space Shuttle Endeavour took this spectacular image of the International Space Station during the STS118 mission, August 8-21, 2007. The image was acquired by an astronaut through one of the crew cabin windows, looking back over the length of the Shuttle. Endeavour had undocked from the International Space Station, and the crew had begun late inspection of the orbiter's Thermal Protection System (wing leading edges, nosecap, and belly tiles) prior to landing. The late inspection...
Topics: What -- Space Shuttle Endeavour, What -- International Space Station (ISS), What -- Earth, Where --...
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=8062
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NASA -- NASA images created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data provided courtesy of the NASA/GSFC/MITI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/ ASTER Science Team.
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For centuries, mariners had to travel an extra 340 kilometers (185 nautical miles) between the Gulf of Corinth and the Saronic Gulf. The reason for this extra distance was a thin strip of land only about 6 kilometers (4 miles) across. The Isthmus of Corinth connects mainland Greece in the north to the Peloponnese Peninsula in the south. In the late 19th century, ships' journeys shortened with the completion of the Corinth Canal. On May 9, 2005, the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and...
Topics: What -- Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, What -- ASTER, What --...
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=6997
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NASA -- Image courtesy NASA/GSFC/LaRC/JPL, www-misr.jpl.nasa.gov MISR Team
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Large abundances of aerosols, or airborne particulates, over the low-lying plains of northeastern India appear in dramatic contrast with the relatively pristine air of the high-altitude Tibetan Plateau. This contrast is illustrated in these Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer images from October 15, 2001. These data represent an area of about 400 kilometers wide by 1600 kilometers long. The aerosols that contribute to poor air quality over much of the Indian subcontinent are believed to...
Topics: What -- MISR, What -- Earth, What -- Terra, Where -- Nepal, Where -- Jet Propulsion Laboratory...
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=1880
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
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At 10:48 p.m. local time on January 31, 1958, the Explorer 1 satellite launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, after launches scheduled the previous two days had been scrubbed due to high-altitude winds. A joint project between the U.S. Army and the California Institute of Technology/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA was not yet established), the launch was a significant achievement for the United States. The previous fall, the Soviet Union had launched two Sputnik satellites, the second one...
Topics: What -- Explorer 1, What -- FAST, What -- Earth, Where -- Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Where --...
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=8446
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Clouds of tan, blue, and green swirl fancifully along the shores of the Persian Gulf in this photo-like image, captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer ( modis.gsfc.nasa.gov MODIS ) on NASA's aqua.nasa.gov/ Aqua satellite on November 28, 2007. Near the shore, the color is almost certainly sediment washing into the gulf, turning the water tan and then green and finally blue as it disperses. Some of the color may also be sediment churned up from the gulf's shallow bed in the...
Topics: What -- Aqua, What -- Earth, Where -- Persian Gulf, Where -- Iraq, Where -- Iran, Where -- Arabian...
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=8354
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In this image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, an unusual, ghostly green blob of gas appears to float near a neighboring spiral galaxy. The bizarre object, dubbed Hanny's Voorwerp (Hanny's Object in Dutch), is the only visible part of a 300,000-light-year-long streamer of gas stretching around the galaxy, called IC 2947. The greenish Voorwerp is visible because a beam of light from the galaxy's core illuminated it. This beam came from a quasar--a bright, energetic object powered by a black...
Topics: What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Beam, What -- Advanced Camera for Surveys, Where --...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/509414main_Voorwerp_full.JPG
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NASA -- Image eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS001&roll=E&frame=5025 ISS001-E-5025 provided by the eol.jsc.nasa.gov'' target=''outlink Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center.
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This image of Alexandria was taken by astronauts on board the International Space Station in December 2000 using an Electronic Still Camera. A eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/1000/1056/STS088-739-90.jpg wider-angle view (STS088-739-90) taken from the Space Shuttle in December 1998 is available for context. Alexandria (Al Iskandariya) occupies a T-shaped peninsula and strip of land separating the Mediterranean from Lake Mariout. Originally the town was built upon a mole (stone...
Topics: What -- International Space Station (ISS), What -- Space Shuttle Orbiter, What -- Electronic Still...
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=1056
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The Apollo 16 crew captured this Earthrise with a handheld Hasselblad camera during the second revolution of the moon. Identifiable craters seen on the...
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Topics: NASA Image of the Day, What -- Apollo 16, What -- Moon
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1335.html
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In October 2007, strong, dry Santa Ana winds raised a major dust plume and several minor plumes on the Baja California peninsula. The light brown dust spread west to the Pacific Ocean (image top right). Because they are warm, dry, and strong, Santa Ana winds reduce soil moisture and famously promote dust storms such as this. On this occasion, the Santa Anas also supported the outbreak of /NaturalHazards/view.php?id=19244 fires in southern California that resulted in significant damage to homes...
Topics: What -- Earth, What -- International Space Station (ISS), Where -- The Valley, Where -- California,...
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=8312
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NASA -- Visualization by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory. Landsat data and SRTM data coregistration provided by the landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Landsat Project Science Office at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
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Snow-capped Pike's Peak towers over Colorado Springs in this Landsat scene. At 14,110 feet above sea level, Pike's Peak is the 31st highest peak in Colorado. Nestled in Colorado's Front Range, it is the farthest east of the large Rocky Mountain peaks. Today the mountain bears the name of military explorer Zebulon Montgomery Pike, who viewed the mountain from a hundred miles away while exploring the far-flung, southwestern corners of the land that the United States obtained in the Louisiana...
Topics: What -- Landsat 7, Where -- Louisiana, What -- Explorer, What -- Shuttle Radar Topography Mission,...
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=4858
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NASA -- Image courtesy GOES project
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The first full-disk (hemispheric) image of the Earth after the turn of the century on the East Coast of the U.S. was aquired by a NOAA Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite--GOES-8-- at 12:45 AM Eastern Standard Time, January 1, 2000. For more high-resolution color images of the earth, see: rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/test/goes.fulldisk.html http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/test/goes.fulldisk.html
Topics: What -- Earth, What -- Environmental Satellite, What -- GOES 8
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=501
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NASA -- Astronaut photograph eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS007&roll=E&frame=10960 ISS007-E-10960 was taken July 27, 2003, with a Kodak DCS760 digital camera equipped with an 800-mm lens, and is provided by the Earth Observations Laboratory, Johnson Space Center. The spaceflight.nasa.gov/ International Space Station Program supports the laboratory to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make...
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Founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BC on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt, Alexandria became a center of trade and learning in the ancient world. Alexander built the causeway between the Eastern and Western Harbors, joining Pharos Island (arrow) to the mainland. Alexandria's cultural status was symbolized by the lighthouse on Pharos, one of the ''Seven Wonders of the World.'' The causeway is still known as the old part of the modern city. Since the year 2000, underwater archeologists have...
Topics: What -- International Space Station (ISS), Where -- Egypt
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=4529
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NASA -- Image courtesy NASA/GSFC/MITI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/ ASTER Science Team
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Inhabited since medieval times, the city of Berlin grew up out of settlements along the Spree River in a region of Europe long known as ''the Mark of Brandenburg.'' From its first recorded settlements in 1237, Berlin has grown into the capital and biggest city of Germany. It has a population of about 3.5 million and extends over 889 square kilometers. The Spree River runs horizontally through the center part of the scene. To the left of center, on the south side of the Spree, is the city's...
Topics: What -- ASTER, Where -- Berlin, Where -- Germany
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=4120
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NASA -- Image courtesy NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/'' target=''outlink ASTER Science Team
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This image shows the extent of deforestation in the state of Rondonia, Brazil. Acquired by the Advance Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on August 24, 2000, the false-color image combines near-infrared, red, and green light. Tropical rainforest appears bright red, while pale red and brown areas represent cleared land. Black and gray areas have probably been recently burned. The Jiparana River appears blue. With a maximum spatial resolution of 15 meters, ASTER does...
Topics: What -- ASTER, Where -- Brazil
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=1141
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NASA -- Image courtesy the seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEAWIFS.html SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE
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A large number of forest fires in Siberia are emitting vast pall of smoke that is spreading from the interior of Asia to Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. So far this summer, tens of thousands of acres have burned in Siberia's boreal forests. The image above, taken by the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) on August 5, 2001, shows smoke from the fires (left) spreading across northeastern Russia, and over the Bering Strait and Alaska. A /Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=5051...
Topics: What -- Columbia, Where -- Alaska, Where -- Russia, Where -- Washington
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=1678
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NASA -- Astronaut photograph eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS009&roll=E&frame=18679 ISS009-E-18679 was acquired August 17, 2004 with a Kodak 760C digital camera with an 400 mm lens. The image is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and the Image Science & Analysis Group at the Johnson Space Center. The spaceflight.nasa.gov/home/index.html International Space Station Program supports the laboratory to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that...
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The Ural River is one of the two major rivers (the other is the Volga) that empty into the northern coast of the Caspian Sea, creating extensive wetlands. This image shows details of the Ural's tree-like (or ''digitate'') delta. This type of delta forms naturally when wave action is low, and sediment content in the river is high. New distributary channels form in the delta when the river breaches natural levees formed by sediment deposition.The long main channel of the river in this image and...
Topics: Where -- Caspian Sea, Where -- Mississippi, Where -- United States of America, Where -- Russia,...
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=5551
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This image, taken on March 4, 1969, shows the stacking of the S-II stage for the Saturn 506 in the Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building in preparation for the Apollo 11 launch. On July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 mission lifted off for humanity's first visit to another celestial body. Image Credit: NASA
Topics: What -- Saturn, What -- Apollo 11, Where -- Kennedy Space Center (KSC)
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1414.html
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NASA -- NASA images created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory. ASTER data provided courtesy of the NASA/GSFC/MITI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/ ASTER Science Team.
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India's Hugli River (sometimes spelled ''Hooghly'') is a Ganges River distributary, one of the many branches of the river that are collectively known as the ''Mouths of the Ganges.'' As the Ganges approaches the coastal plain, the river fans out over the flat terrain of Bangladesh and West Bengal, India, as numerous meandering channels. The Hugli branches off the Ganges about 200 kilometers north of Calcutta, and the river flows past the city before emptying into the Bay of Bengal. This image...
Topics: What -- Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, What -- ASTER, What --...
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=6972
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NASA -- Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC
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What atmospheric scientists refer to as open cell cloud formation is a regular occurrence on the back side of a low-pressure system or cyclone in the mid-latitudes. In the Northern Hemisphere, a low-pressure system will draw in surrounding air and spin it counterclockwise. That means that on the back side of the low-pressure center, cold air will be drawn in from the north, and on the front side, warm air will be drawn up from latitudes closer to the equator. This movement of an air mass is...
Topics: What -- GOES 8, Where -- Atlantic Ocean, Where -- United States of America, Where -- Massachusetts,...
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=2217
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NASA -- Geographic information overlay and image creation provided courtesy of Ned Gardiner, sciencebulletins.amnh.org/ American Museum of Natural History's Science Bulletins . Landsat data obatained from the glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/index.shtml University of Maryland Global Land Cover Facility .
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The Great Smoky Mountains National Park straddles the ridgeline of the Appalachian Mountains in the southern United States. The border between Tennesse to the west and North Carolina to the east runs vertically through the middle of the park. On its route from Maine to Georgia, the Appalachian Trail passes through the center of the park along the ridgeline pictured here. The park was first created in 1934, and it encompasses over 2,000 square kilometers (800 square miles), making it one of the...
Topics: What -- Landsat 7, Where -- The Valley, Where -- United States of America, Where -- North Carolina,...
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=3824
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Deep in the Sahara Desert lies a crater. Nearly a perfect circle, it is 1.9 kilometers (1.2 miles) wide, and sports a rim 100 meters (330 feet) high. The crater sits in a vast plain of rocks so ancient they were deposited hundreds of millions of years before the first dinosaurs walked the Earth. Modern geologists long debated what caused this crater, some of them favoring a volcano. But closer examination of the structure revealed that the crater's hardened ''lava'' was actually rock that had...
Topics: What -- Crater, What -- Earth, What -- ASTER, What -- Terra, Where -- Mauritania
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=8536
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The Port of Suez is located in Egypt along the northern coastline of the Gulf of Suez. The port and city mark the southern terminus of the /IOTD/view.php?id=6794 Suez Canal, which runs north-south through Egypt from the Mediterranean Sea to the Gulf of Suez. The port serves vessels transporting general cargo, oil tankers, and both commercial and private passenger vessels. The port is also an important waypoint for Muslim pilgrims traveling to and from Mecca in Saudi Arabia. Several large...
Topics: What -- Earth, What -- International Space Station (ISS), Where -- Egypt, Where -- Mediterranean...
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=8436
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Jun 24, 2011
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NASA -- Image provided by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and www.orbimage.com/ ORBIMAGE.
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Over the past several years, dense clouds of ../Features/Phytoplankton/ phytoplankton (microscopic plants that live in water) have appeared in the Bering Sea each summer. One class of phytoplankton are particularly easy to spot from overhead. Called ../Features/Coccolithophores/ coccolithophores , these phytoplankton grow calcium-rich shells. These shells are bright white and turn the water where they grow a milky blue. The seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEAWIFS.html Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view...
Topics: Where -- Bering Sea, Where -- Alaska
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=827
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This artist's impression shows how the Arches star cluster appears from deep inside the hub of our Milky Way Galaxy. Hidden from our direct view, the massive cluster lies 25,000 light-years away and is the densest known gathering of young stars in our galaxy. The illustration is based on infrared observations from Hubble and with ground-based telescopes, which pierced our galaxy's dusty core and snapped images of the luminous cluster of about 2,000 stars. Image Credit: Artist's...
Topic: Where -- Milky Way Galaxy
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/492159main_pink_full.jpg
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NASA -- Image courtesy NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, University of Texas www.csr.utexas.edu/ Center for Space Research, and op.gfz-potsdam.de/ GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam
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The joint NASA-German Aerospace Center Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission has released its first science product, the most accurate map yet of Earth's gravity field. GRACE is the newest tool for scientists working to unlock secrets of ocean circulation and its effects on climate. Created from 111 days of selected GRACE data to help calibrate and validate the mission's instruments, this preliminary model improves knowledge of the gravity field so much it is being released to...
Topics: What -- Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, What -- GRACE, Where -- Texas
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=3666
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NASA -- Image courtesy NASA/GSFC/MITI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team
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This asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/ Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) image of Mt. Vesuvius, Italy was acquired September 26, 2000. The eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/1000/1045/aster_vesuvius_lrg.jpg full-size false-color image covers an area of 36 by 45 km. Vesuvius overlooks the city of Naples and the Bay of Naples in central Italy. ( /Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=4501 Popocatepetl and /Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=4536 Mount Fuji are...
Topics: What -- Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, What -- ASTER, What --...
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=1045
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
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The mega-iceberg A53a (upper image) measured close to 50 kilometers by 22 kilometers, about seven times the area of Manhattan Island, in mid-January 2008 when astronauts took the photographs for this mosaic. The images were acquired from the International Space Station (ISS), located 780 kilometers to the north of the iceberg at an altitude of 341 kilometers; the perspective distorts the oblong shape of the iceberg, making it look squarer than it actually is. At the time the photographs were...
Topics: What -- International Space Station (ISS), What -- FAST, What -- Advanced Communication Technology...
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=8491
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NASA -- NASA image courtesy the rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center.
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Abutting the southern front of the snow-clad Himalaya Mountains, the broad, flat Ganges Plain is laced with rivers that transport glacial melt to the Bay of Bengal or the Arabian Sea. Not surprisingly, these rivers lead something of a Dr. Jekyll-Mr. Hyde existence: during the dry winter, the rivers are small and sedate, their headwaters largely locked in ice. In the summer, temperatures in the mountains climb, melting mountain-top snow and fueling the Asian monsoon, and the rivers swell into...
Topics: What -- Aqua, What -- Visible Light, What -- Earth, Where -- Bay of Bengal, Where -- Arabian Sea,...
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=7944
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NASA -- Images produced by Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC) and caption by Steve Lang (SSAI/NASA GSFC)
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eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/4000/4379/mexico_floods_apr04_small.qt Small Quicktime (525 Kb qt) eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/4000/4379/mexico_floods_apr04_small.mpg Small MPEG (1.0 Mb mpg) Flash floods claimed the lives of at least 34 people in northern Mexico and 6 people in Texas between April 3 and April 7, 2004. A stationary front draped across southwest Texas along the Rio Grande valley, and a deep upper-level low pressure center over Arizona provided the focus...
Topics: What -- Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), Where -- Texas, Where -- Arizona, Where -- New...
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=4379
