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NASA -- Images courtesy USGS edc.usgs.gov/ EROS Data Center and the landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Landsat 7 Science Team.
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Topics: What -- Landsat 7, Where -- United States of America, Where -- Los Angeles, Where -- Oregon
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=1743
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Apr 12, 2010
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landsat_7 3d model
Topics: What -- Earth, What -- Landsat 7
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/3d_resources/assets/landsat_7.html
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Sep 14, 2009
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Sep 14, 2009
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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Instruments on the Landsat satellites capture images in the visible spectrum, but they also take images in wavelengths invisible to the naked eye. Landsat's thermal imager captures land surface temperature data. As farmers irrigate fields, water evaporates from the soil and transpires from plants' leaves. The combined process is called evapotranspiration. Evapotranspiring water absorbs energy, so farm fields consuming more water appear cooler in the thermal band. Landsat-based...
Topics: Environmental science, Evaporation, HDTV, Earth Science, Atmosphere, Atmospheric Water Vapor,...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3632
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Sep 13, 2009
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Sep 13, 2009
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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The data used to generate this animation were collected by the NASA MODIS intrument. Data are collected four times per day using two satellite platforms. The instrument design included the capability to identify active fires sensing in the middle infrared part of the spectrum. The fire data used in the animation were generated by the MODIS advanced processing system at NASA. The MODIS Global Fire data are available free of charge and within a few hours of satellite acquisition. The fire data...
Topics: Atmospheric science, Biscuit, Forestry, HDTV, Hayman, Natural hazards, Rodeo, Earth Science,...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3624
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Sep 1, 2009
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Sep 1, 2009
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC). Historic calving front locations courtesy of Anker Weidick and Ole Bennike, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
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The cryosphere consists of those parts of the Earth's surface where water is found in solid form, including areas of snow, sea ice, glaciers, permafrost, ice sheets, and icebergs. In these regions, surface temperatures remain below freezing for a portion of each year. Since ice and snow exist relatively close to their melting point, they frequently change from solid to liquid and back again due to fluctuations in surface temperature. Although direct measurements of the cryosphere can be...
Topics: Cryology, HDTV, Sea Ice, Snow, Snow and Ice, Earth Science, Cryosphere, Frozen Ground, Permafrost,...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3619
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Jul 27, 2009
07/09
Jul 27, 2009
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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Using data from different spacecraft and some powerful computer technology, visualizers at the Goddard Space Flight Center present you with a collection of American cities in a way you have never seen them before. Starting with our camera high above the Earth, we rush in towards the surface at what would be an impossible speed for any known vehicle. Passing through layers of atmosphere, the colors of our destinations shimmer with their own unique characteristics, and suddenly we find ourselves...
Topics: HDTV, Human geography, New Orleans, Physical geography, Zoom, What -- Earth, What -- Landsat 7,...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3622
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Jun 13, 2009
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Jun 13, 2009
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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From space, we can understand fires in ways that are impossible from the ground. NASA research has contributed to much improved detection of fire for scientific purposes using satellite remote sensing and geographic information systems. This has helped advance our understanding of the impacts of fire in many areas of earth science, including atmospheric chemistry and the impacts on protected areas. This research has led to the development of a rapid response system widely used throughout the...
Topics: Atmospheric science, Biscuit, Forestry, HDTV, Hayman, Natural hazards, Rodeo, Earth Science,...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3597
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Apr 24, 2009
04/09
Apr 24, 2009
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NASA
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On May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary, from New Zealand, and Tenzing Norgay, from Nepal, became the first humans to successfully climb to the peak of Mt. Everest, the tallest mountain in the world. They were part of a British expedition lead by Colonel John Hunt sent specifically to reach what was regarded at the time as the 'third pole.' In decades prior, major British expeditions had attempted to be the first to reach the North and South Poles only to come in second place behind the Americans...
Topics: Mt. Everest, What -- Landsat 7, Where -- New Zealand
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1337.html
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Apr 22, 2009
04/09
Apr 22, 2009
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NASA
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This Landsat 7 image of Guinea-Bissau, a small country in West Africa, shows the complex patterns of the country's shallow coastal waters, where silt...
Topics: NASA Image of the Day, What -- Landsat 7, Where -- Guinea, Where -- Bissau
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1334.html
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Apr 22, 2009
04/09
Apr 22, 2009
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NASA
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This Landsat 7 image of Guinea-Bissau, a small country in West Africa, shows the complex patterns of the country's shallow coastal waters, where silt carried by the Geba and other rivers washes out into the Atlantic Ocean. This is a false-color composite image made using infrared, red and blue wavelengths to bring out details in the silt was taken using Landsat 7's Enhanced Thematic Mapper plus (ETM+) sensor on Jan. 12, 2000. Image Credit: NASA/USGS EROS Data Center
Topics: Guinea-Bissau, What -- Landsat 7, Where -- Guinea, Where -- Atlantic Ocean, Where -- Bissau
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1334.html
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Apr 7, 2009
04/09
Apr 7, 2009
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center U.S. Geological Survey
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This is a narrated version of entry
Topics: Antarctic, HDTV, Landsat, Polar Ice, Location, Antarctica, Location, Polar, Edited Feature, What --...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?10416
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Mar 26, 2009
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Mar 26, 2009
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. LIMA Data provided by: Patricia Vornberger (SAIC) LIMA data produced by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and NASA.
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This large resolution graphic was created to display a 10 foot by 7 foot exhibition for the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA) project at the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM) in Baltimore, Maryland on April 16-17, 2009. This meeting marks the 50th Anniversary of the Antarctic Treaty. After this meeting, the printed image will be displayed in building 33 of Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.The Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA) is a data product funded...
Topics: HDTV, Earth Science, Cryosphere, Glaciers/Ice Sheets, Earth Science, Cryosphere, Glaciers/Ice...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3588
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Mar 12, 2009
03/09
Mar 12, 2009
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and Ivy Flores (UMBC)
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Released on March 27, 2009, FROZEN is NASA's second major production for the Science On a Sphere platform, a novel cinema-in-the-round technology developed by the Space Agency's sibling NOAA. Viewers see the Earth suspended in darkness as if it were floating in space. Moving across the planet's face, viewers see the undulating wisps of clouds, the ephemeral sweep of fallen snow, the churning crash of shifting ice, and more. FROZEN brings the Earth alive. Turning in space, the sphere becomes a...
Topics: Cryology, Earth Science, HDTV, Ice, Infrared, Earth Science, Cryosphere, Earth Science, Cryosphere,...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?10403
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Oct 31, 2008
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Oct 31, 2008
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio LIMA Data provided by: Patricia Vornberger (SAIC) LIMA data produced by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and NASA
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The Pine Island Glacier is the largest discharger of ice in Antarctica and the continent's fastest moving glacier. This area of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is also believed to be the most susceptible to collapse. The evolution of this glacier is therefore of great interest to the scientific community. It is an area of Antarctica which is experiencing rapid changes. The grounding line of Pine Island Glacier is retreating, the glacier is thinning rapidly, and its ice flow is accelerating....
Topics: HDTV, Earth Science, Cryosphere, Glaciers/Ice Sheets, Earth Science, Cryosphere, Glaciers/Ice...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3538
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Oct 31, 2008
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Oct 31, 2008
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio LIMA Data provided by: Patricia Vornberger (SAIC) LIMA data produced by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and NASA
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The Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA) is a data product funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and jointly produced by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The LIMA data shown here uses the pan-chromatic band and has a resolution of 15 meters per pixel. The 13 swaths used to generate this sample mosaic where acquired between December 25, 1999 and December 31, 2001. The elevation data...
Topics: HDTV, Earth Science, Cryosphere, Glaciers/Ice Sheets, Earth Science, Cryosphere, Glaciers/Ice...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3537
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Aug 29, 2008
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Aug 29, 2008
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio The Blue Marble Next Generation data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).
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The Blue Marble Next Generation (BMNG) data set provides a monthly global cloud-free true-color picture of the Earth's landcover at a 500-meter spatial resolution. This data set, shown on a globe, is derived from monthly data collected in 2004. The ocean color is derived from applying a depth shading to the bathymetry data. The Antarctica coverage snown is the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica. Behind the Earth is a skymap from the Tycho and Hipparcos star catalogs. This skymap is plotted in...
Topics: Cryology, HDTV, Sea Ice, Earth Science, Cryosphere, What -- Landsat 7, What -- Earth, What --...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3539
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Aug 22, 2008
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Aug 22, 2008
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. LIMA Data provided by: Patricia Vornberger (SAIC). LIMA data produced by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and NASA.
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Antarctica is the highest, driest, coldest, windiest and brightest of the seven continents. It is roughly the size of the United States and Mexico combined and is almost completely covered by a layer of ice that averages more than one mile in thickness, but is nearly three miles thick in places. This ice accumulated over millions of years through snowfall. Presently, the Antarctic ice sheet contains 90% of the ice on Earth and would raise sea levels worldwide by over 200 feet were it to melt....
Topics: HDTV, Earth Science, Cryosphere, Glaciers/Ice Sheets, Earth Science, Cryosphere, Glaciers/Ice...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3540
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Jun 13, 2008
06/08
Jun 13, 2008
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
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More than 7,000 kilometers (4,400 miles) long and more than 500 kilometers (300 miles) wide in places, the Andes Mountains encompass a wide range of climates and habitats, from snow-capped mountain peaks to rainforests to high deserts. This picture, acquired by NASA's Landsat 7 satellite, shows a dramatic change in landscape about 250 kilometers southeast of la Paz, the capital of Bolivia. Probably the most striking feature in this natural-color image is the dramatic change between the tan...
Topics: What -- Landsat 7, What -- Landsat, Where -- La Paz, Where -- Peru
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=8830
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Apr 21, 2008
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Apr 21, 2008
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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The Chesapeake Bay an area of approximately 200 miles is North America's largest estuary. The Bay and its tributaries comprises a complex ecosystem which encompasses rivers, wetlands, trees and habitats. This animation takes us on a tour around the Bay starting from its 'mouth' near Norfolk, Virginia, flying north up to the Susquehanna River and then flying down the area of the Eastern Shore all the way to the Fishermans Island, zooming out to get a look of the Chesapeake bay region. The...
Topics: Chesapeake Bay, Flyover, HDTV, Landsat, Earth Science, What -- Landsat 7, What -- Meteosat 6, What...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3446
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Apr 21, 2008
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Apr 21, 2008
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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The watershed that drains into the Chesapeake Bay is a huge expanse that extends 64,000 miles into five states across North America (New York, Pensylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia) and the District of Columbia. This visualization overlays the full watershed onto a Landsat satellite visualization of the Bay area. The eight different distinctly colored regions indicate the Chesapeake's major subwatersheds. These subwatershed regions are: Susquehanna, Potomac, Patuxent, MD West Shore,...
Topics: Chesapeake Bay, Flyover, HDTV, Landsat, Earth Science, What -- Columbia, What -- Landsat 7, What --...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3477
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Apr 21, 2008
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Apr 21, 2008
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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This animation takes us on a tour around the Chesapeake Bay region visiting major city centers in the surrounding states: Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and the District of Columbia. The imagery utilized for this animation is a false-color <a href="http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003400/a003473/">Chesapeake Bay Landsat-7 Mosaic (#3473) </a>composed of eight scenes acquired between 1999-2002, which were put together and color corrected to resemble...
Topics: Chesapeake Bay, Earth Science, Flyover, HDTV, Landsat, Earth Science, Location, Delaware, Location,...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3493
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Apr 21, 2008
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Apr 21, 2008
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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The Chesapeake Bay Landsat-7 Mosaic is a composite of eight Landsat-7 scenes acquired during the period of 1999-2002, where each pixel represents about 15 square meters on the ground. The original data set was a false-color Landsat-7 (ETM+) image using bands 7,4,2 and the panchromatic band (8). Color correction has been applied to resemble natural looking colors.This page offers the full color-corrected data set for download and lets you look around at it using the online viewer. You can...
Topics: Chesapeake Bay, Flyover, Landsat, Earth Science, What -- Landsat 7, What -- Landsat, What -- Earth,...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3473
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Apr 21, 2008
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Apr 21, 2008
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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The watershed that drains into the Chesapeake Bay is a huge expanse that extends 64,000 miles into five states across North America (New York, Pensylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia) and the District of Columbia. This visualization overlays the full watershed onto a Landsat satellite visualization of the Bay area. The eight different distinctly colored regions indicate the Chesapeake's major subwatersheds. These subwatershed regions are: Susquehanna, Potomac, Patuxent, MD West Shore,...
Topics: Chesapeake Bay, Flyover, HDTV, Landsat, Earth Science, What -- Columbia, What -- Landsat 7, What --...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3472
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Apr 20, 2008
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Apr 20, 2008
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
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From the distant reaches of the Universe, to black holes, and the Martian surface, NASA explores some of the most far out parts of space. But NASA also does research much closer to home. In fact, NASA Earth Science satellites are taking part in the management and recovery of an ecosystem right in our backyard, the Chesapeake Bay. Note: By studying the landscape around the Chesapeake Bay, NASA spacecraft are helping land managers figure out how to battle the harmful pollutants that have added to...
Topics: Chesapeake Bay, Environmental science, Hydrology, Landsat, Remote Sensing, Earth Science,...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?10207
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Mar 18, 2008
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Mar 18, 2008
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).
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Antarctica is a land mass surrounded by an ocean which allows the sea ice here to move more freely than it does in the Northern Hemisphere. Because there are no surrounding continents to limit its movement, the sea ice is free to float northward into warmer waters where it eventually melts. As a result, almost all of the sea ice that forms during the Antarctic winter melts during the summer. During the winter, up to 18 million square kilometers (6.9 million square miles) of ocean is covered by...
Topics: Cryology, HDTV, Physical oceanography, Earth Science, Cryosphere, Earth Science, Cryosphere, Sea...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3497
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2008
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
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Ranging in color from snow white to turquoise, sea ice lined the shoreline in eastern Greenland in mid-June 2000. NASA's Landsat 7 satellite acquired this image on June 16, 2000, shortly before the summer solstice when the Arctic enjoyed near round-the-clock sunshine. Although snow and ice abound in this image, both are in retreat for the summer. Snowcaps form dendritic patterns on the brown landscape, leaving south-facing slopes especially bare. Around the Hold with Hope promontory, clings to...
Topics: What -- Landsat 7, What -- FAST, What -- Landsat, Where -- White Sea, Where -- Greenland, Where --...
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=8854
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2008
2008
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
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Located north of Australia, the island nation of Papua New Guinea consists of the eastern half of mainland New Guinea (the western half of New Guinea Island is part of Indonesia) and numerous smaller islands to the east. Like many other tropical countries, the nation harbors large expanses of diverse tropical forests, from mountain forests to mangroves. In June 2008, scientists form the University of Papua New Guinea published the country's first detailed assessment of the type, extent, and...
Topics: What -- Landsat 5, Where -- United States of America, What -- Landsat 7, What -- Landsat, What --...
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=8842
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2008
2008
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
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www.nps.gov/cany/ Canyonlands National Park in Utah encompasses some of the most remote and rugged terrain in the continental United States. The topography is so irregular that the Park's three main districts -- Island in the Sky, the Needles, and the Maze -- are not accessible from one another by paved roads. This true-color satellite image from the Enhanced Thematic Mapper plus (ETM+) sensor on the landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Landsat-7 satellite shows the Island in the Sky, a large mesa bordered...
Topics: What -- Landsat 7, Where -- Utah, Where -- United States of America, Where -- Colorado
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=8360
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Oct 4, 2007
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Oct 4, 2007
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio The Next Generation Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).
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Since measurements of Jakobshavn Isbrae were first taken in 1850, the glacier gradually receded until about 1950, where it remained stable for the past 5 decades. However, from 1997 to 2006, the glacier has begun to recede again, this time almost doubling in speed. The finding is important for many reasons. As more ice moves from glaciers on land into the ocean, ocean sea levels raise. Jakobshavn Isbrae is Greenland's largest outlet glacier, draining 6.5 percent of Greenland's ice sheet area....
Topics: Cryology, HDTV, Earth Science, Cryosphere, Earth Science, Cryosphere, Sea Ice, Earth Science,...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3467
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Jul 27, 2007
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Jul 27, 2007
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio LIMA Data provided by: Patricia Vornberger (SAIC) LIMA data produced by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and NASA
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The Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA) is a data product funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and jointly produced by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The LIMA data shown here uses the pan-chromatic band and has a resolution of 15 meters per pixel. The 13 swaths used to generate this sample mosaic where acquired between December 25, 1999 and December 31, 2001. The elevation data...
Topics: HDTV, Earth Science, Cryosphere, Glaciers/Ice Sheets, Earth Science, Cryosphere, Glaciers/Ice...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3482
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Jun 11, 2007
06/07
Jun 11, 2007
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio United States Geological Survey
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Some call it the eighth wonder of world; others say it's the next Great Wall of China. Upon completion in 2009, the Three Gorges Dam will be the world's largest hydroelectric power generator. One of the few man-made structures so enormous that it's actually visible to the naked eye from space, NASA's Landsat satellite has had a closer look, providing detailed, vivid views of the dam since its inception in 1994. The dam is built along the Yangtze River, the third largest in the world, stretching...
Topics: HDTV, Hydrology, Earth Science, Hydrosphere, Surface Water, Floods, Location, China, What --...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3433
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Jun 11, 2007
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Jun 11, 2007
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).
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Since measurements of Jakobshavn Isbrae were first taken in 1850, the glacier has gradually receded, finally coming to rest at a certain point for the past 5 decades. However, from 1997 to 2006, the glacier has begun to recede again, this time almost doubling in speed. The finding is important for many reasons. As more ice moves from glaciers on land into the ocean, ocean sea levels raise. Jakobshavn Isbrae is Greenland's largest outlet glacier, draining 6.5 percent of Greenland's ice sheet...
Topics: Cryology, HDTV, Earth Science, Cryosphere, Earth Science, Cryosphere, Sea Ice, Earth Science,...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3434
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Jun 7, 2007
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Jun 7, 2007
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NASA -- NASA image by Jesse Allen, using data provided courtesy of the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
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A series of tornadoes ripped through the Upper Midwest region of the United States in the evening of June 7, 2007. At least five different tornadoes touched down in Wisconsin, according to the Associated Press, one of which tore through the Bear Paw Resort in northern Wisconsin. Despite dropping as much as fifteen centimeters (six inches) of rain in some places and baseball-size hail in others, authorities were reporting no deaths attributable to the storm system, and only a smattering of...
Topics: What -- Landsat 7, Where -- United States of America, Where -- Wisconsin
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=7798
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Apr 1, 2007
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Apr 1, 2007
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NASA -- NASA image by Robert Simmon, based on landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov Landsat data from the University of Maryland's glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/index.shtml Global Land Cover Facility.
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On April 1, 2007, a magnitude 8.1 earthquake rattled the Solomon Islands, 2,145 kilometers (1,330 miles) northeast of Brisbane, Australia. Centered less than ten kilometers beneath the Earth's surface, the earthquake displaced enough water in the ocean above to trigger a small tsunami. Though officials were still assessing damage to remote island communities on April 3, http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/KHII-6ZW9V9?OpenDocument&rc=5&emid=TS-2007-000042-SLB Reuters reported...
Topics: What -- Landsat 7, Where -- Solomon Islands, Where -- Brisbane, Where -- Australia, Where --...
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=7557
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Mar 8, 2007
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Mar 8, 2007
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio LIMA Data provided by: Patricia Vornberger (SAIC)
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The Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA) is a data product funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and jointly produced by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The images shown here are compared to what is currently the best mosaic of Antarctica called the MODIS Mosaic of Antarctica (MOA). MOA is a composite of 260 swaths comprised of both Terra and Aqua MODIS images acquired between...
Topics: HDTV, Earth Science, Cryosphere, Glaciers/Ice Sheets, Earth Science, Cryosphere, Glaciers/Ice...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3417
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Mar 8, 2007
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Mar 8, 2007
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio LIMA Data provided by: Patricia Vornberger (SAIC)
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The Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA) is a data product funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and jointly produced by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The images shown here are compared to what is currently the best mosaic of Antarctica called the MODIS Mosaic of Antarctica (MOA). MOA is a composite of 260 swaths comprised of both Terra and Aqua MODIS images acquired between...
Topics: HDTV, Earth Science, Cryosphere, Glaciers/Ice Sheets, Earth Science, Cryosphere, Glaciers/Ice...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3418
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Mar 8, 2007
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Mar 8, 2007
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio LIMA Data provided by: Patricia Vornberger (SAIC)
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The Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA) is a data product funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and jointly produced by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The images shown here are compared to what is currently the best mosaic of Antarctica called the MODIS Mosaic of Antarctica (MOA). MOA is a composite of 260 swaths comprised of both Terra and Aqua MODIS images acquired between...
Topics: HDTV, Earth Science, Cryosphere, Glaciers/Ice Sheets, Earth Science, Cryosphere, Glaciers/Ice...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3415
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Mar 8, 2007
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio LIMA Data provided by: Patricia Vornberger (SAIC)
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The Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA) is a data product funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and jointly produced by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The images shown here are compared to what is currently the best mosaic of Antarctica called the MODIS Mosaic of Antarctica (MOA). MOA is a composite of 260 swaths comprised of both Terra and Aqua MODIS images acquired between...
Topics: HDTV, Earth Science, Cryosphere, Glaciers/Ice Sheets, Earth Science, Cryosphere, Glaciers/Ice...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3416
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio LIMA Data provided by: Patricia Vornberger (SAIC)
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The Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA) is a data product funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and jointly produced by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The images shown here are compared to what is currently the best mosaic of Antarctica called the MODIS Mosaic of Antarctica (MOA). MOA is a composite of 260 swaths comprised of both Terra and Aqua MODIS images acquired between...
Topics: HDTV, Earth Science, Cryosphere, Glaciers/Ice Sheets, Earth Science, Cryosphere, Glaciers/Ice...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3414
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Jan 31, 2007
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Jan 31, 2007
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
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In central Africa, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, sit two volcanoes: Nyiragongo and Nyamuragira. Besides their proximity to Lake Kivu in the south, these volcanoes share the capacity for destruction, each having produced its share of catastrophic eruptions since the early twentieth century. Yet these volcanoes differ markedly from each other, one being a low-profiled structure rising subtly from the plain, and the other sporting steep slopes. NASA's Landsat 7 satellite captured this...
Topics: What -- Landsat 7, What -- Peacock, What -- FAST, What -- Earth, What -- Landsat
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=8291
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Jan 5, 2007
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio Historic calving front locations courtesy of Anker Weidick and Ole Bennike
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Jakobshavn Isbrae is located on the west coast of Greenland at Latitude 69 N. The ice front, where the glacier calves into the sea, receded more than 40 km between 1850 and 2006. Between 1850 and 1964 the ice front retreated at a steady rate of about 0.3 km/yr, after which it occupied approximately the same location until 2001, when the ice front began to recede again, but far more rapidly at about 3 km/yr. After 2004, the glacier began retreating up its two main tributaries: one to the north,...
Topics: Cryology, Earth Science, Cryosphere, Earth Science, Cryosphere, Snow/Ice, Earth Science,...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3395
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Jan 5, 2007
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio Historic calving front locations courtesy of Anker Weidick and Ole Bennike, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland.
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Jakobshavn Isbrae is located on the west coast of Greenland at Latitude 69 N. The ice front, where the glacier calves into the sea, receded more than 40 km between 1850 and 2006. Between 1850 and 1964 the ice front retreated at a steady rate of about 0.3 km/yr, after which it occupied approximately the same location until 2001, when the ice front began to recede again, but far more rapidly at about 3 km/yr. As more ice moves from glaciers on land into the ocean, it causes a rise in sea level....
Topics: Cryology, Earth Science, Cryosphere, Earth Science, Hydrosphere, Glaciers/Ice Sheets, Earth...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3630
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Nov 14, 2006
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Nov 14, 2006
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Using data from different spacecraft and some powerful computer technology, visualizers at the Goddard Space Flight Center present you with a collection of American cities in a way you have never seen them before. Starting with our camera high above the Earth, we rush in towards the surface at what would be an impossible speed for any known vehicle. Passing though layers of atmosphere, the colors of our destinations shimmer with their own unique characteristics, and suddenly we find ourselves...
Topics: Chicago, HDTV, Human geography, Physical geography, Zoom, Location, Illinois, What -- Earth, What...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3381
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Nov 14, 2006
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Using data from different spacecraft and some powerful computer technology, visualizers at the Goddard Space Flight Center present you with a collection of American cities in a way you have never seen them before. Starting with our camera high above the Earth, we rush in towards the surface at what would be an impossible speed for any known vehicle. Passing though layers of atmosphere, the colors of our destinations shimmer with their own unique characteristics, and suddenly we find ourselves...
Topics: Chicago, HDTV, Human geography, Physical geography, Zoom, Location, Illinois, What -- Earth, What...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3380
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Sep 30, 2006
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC). Jeffrey E. Schmaltz (NASA/SSAI)
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Since measurements of Jakobshavn Isbrae were first taken in 1850, the glacier has gradually receded, finally coming to rest at a certain point for the past 5 decades. However, from 1997 to 2006, the glacier has begun to recede again, this time almost doubling in speed. The finding is important for many reasons. As more ice moves from glaciers on land into the ocean, it raises sea levels. Jakobshavn Isbrae is Greenland's largest outlet glacier, draining 6.5 percent of Greenland's ice sheet area....
Topics: Cryology, Glacier, HDTV, Earth Science, Cryosphere, Earth Science, Hydrosphere, Snow/Ice, Earth...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3374
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Sep 15, 2006
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NASA -- NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained from the University of Maryland's www.landcover.org/ Global Land Cover Facility.
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In 1501, a 26-year-old Michelangelo inherited a block of marble that several other artists had worked without much success. A few years later, he completed his David. Originally intended for installation atop a building, the statue was soon judged too beautiful to put so far above admiring eyes. The marble block that Michelangelo worked came from the marble quarry of Carrara. Roughly 100 kilometers (60 miles) from Florence, the hotspot of Renaissance artistic achievement, Carrara lies along...
Topics: What -- Landsat 7, Where -- Rome
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=6936
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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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May 20, 2006
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May 20, 2006
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A newer version of this animation is available
Topics: Cryology, Sea Ice, Snow Cover, Snow and Ice, Earth Science, Cryosphere, Frozen Ground, Permafrost,...
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?3355
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May 10, 2006
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NASA -- NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using Landsat data provided by the University of Maryland's www.landcover.org/ Global Land Cover Facility.
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eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/8000/8049/wdc_mss_1973153_lrg.jpg May 10, 2006 (Landsat 1 MSS; 57 m resolution; 4.7 MB) eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/8000/8049/wdc_l7_2002169_lrg.jpg April 11, 2006 (Landsat 7 ETM+; 28.5 m resolution; 3.4 MB) Between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Maryland, landscapes that were largely rural and agricultural 30 years ago are filling with residential and commercial development. Captured 29 years apart by two NASA Landsat satellite...
Topics: What -- Landsat 1, What -- Landsat 7, What -- Landsat, What -- Earth, Where -- Washington, Where --...
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=8049
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NASA -- Astronaut photograph eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS013&roll=E&frame=13549 ISS013-E-13549 was acquired May 2, 2006, with a Kodak 760C digital camera using an 800 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. The spaceflight.nasa.gov/home/index.html International Space Station Program supports...
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George Washington not only served as the namesake for the capital city of the United States, he also chose its location, perhaps envisioning the transportation possibilities that the Potomac River flowing past the site would provide. Early on, the city saw conflict; in the War of 1812, British forces invaded and burned several public buildings. The Civil War marked the beginning of the city's transformation from a provincial town to a world center of culture, history, and political energy...
Topics: What -- Columbia, Where -- Lincoln, What -- International Space Station (ISS), What -- Landsat 7,...
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=6581
