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Hugli River, India: Image of the Day
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Hugli River, India: Image of the Day
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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 from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer asterweb.jpl.nasa.go v (ASTER) on NASA's terra.nasa.gov Terra satellite shows the mouth of the Hugli River on March 29, 2000. Dense vegetation appears deep green, while less dense vegetation appears lighter green. Water appears blue, and sandy beaches appear white. The different shades of blue in the river mouth may be from different amounts of sediment (clearer water would be darker blue) or different water depths (deeper water would be darker blue). The scattered pockets of dense vegetation, for example, along the southeast coast of Sagar Island and covering many of the smaller islands, may be remnants of the region's mangrove forests that people have not cleared for settlement or agriculture. About 60 kilometers east of the Hugli River delta, the Sundarbans National Park begins; the park protects the largest remaining tract of mangrove forest in the world and provides critical habitat for the largest population of the planet's last remaining Bengal tigers. * www.unep-wcmc.org/si tes/wh/sundarba.html Sundarbans National Park, from the United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre. * visibleearth.nasa.go v/view_rec.php?id=22 50 Wider-area image of the Mouths of the Ganges, from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer modis.gsfc.nasa.gov (MODIS) on NASA's terra.nasa.gov Terra satellite. (Hugli River and Sagar Island are at lower left.)
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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 from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer asterweb.jpl.nasa.go v (ASTER) on NASA's terra.nasa.gov Terra satellite shows the mouth of the Hugli River on March 29, 2000. Dense vegetation appears deep green, while less dense vegetation appears lighter green. Water appears blue, and sandy beaches appear white. The different shades of blue in the river mouth may be from different amounts of sediment (clearer water would be darker blue) or different water depths (deeper water would be darker blue). The scattered pockets of dense vegetation, for example, along the southeast coast of Sagar Island and covering many of the smaller islands, may be remnants of the region's mangrove forests that people have not cleared for settlement or agriculture. About 60 kilometers east of the Hugli River delta, the Sundarbans National Park begins; the park protects the largest remaining tract of mangrove forest in the world and provides critical habitat for the largest population of the planet's last remaining Bengal tigers. * www.unep-wcmc.org/si tes/wh/sundarba.html Sundarbans National Park, from the United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre. * visibleearth.nasa.go v/view_rec.php?id=22 50 Wider-area image of the Mouths of the Ganges, from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer modis.gsfc.nasa.gov (MODIS) on NASA's terra.nasa.gov Terra satellite. (Hugli River and Sagar Island are at lower left.)
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What -- Terra
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What -- Terra
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What -- ASTER
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What -- ASTER
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What -- Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer
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What -- Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer
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Where -- Bay of Bengal
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Where -- Bay of Bengal
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Where -- Bangladesh
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Where -- Bangladesh
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Terra
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ASTER
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Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer
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Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer
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Bay of Bengal
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Bay of Bengal
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Bangladesh
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hugli_ast_2000089
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hugli_ast_2000089
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jake@archive.org
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jake@archive.org
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2011-07-06 22:50:44
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2011-07-06 22:50:44
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2011-07-06 22:50:44
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2011-07-06 22:50:44
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NASA -- NASA images created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory. ASTER data provided courtesy of the NASA/GSFC/MITI/ERSDA C/JAROS, and U.S./Japan asterweb.jpl.nasa.go v/ ASTER Science Team.
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NASA -- NASA images created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory. ASTER data provided courtesy of the NASA/GSFC/MITI/ERSDA C/JAROS, and U.S./Japan asterweb.jpl.nasa.go v/ ASTER Science Team.
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file:/home/lunaadmin /Source_download/201 107/1/hugli_ast_2000 089/hugli_ast_200008 9_lrg.jpg
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file:/home/lunaadmin /Source_download/201 107/1/hugli_ast_2000 089/hugli_ast_200008 9_lrg.jpg
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hugli_ast_2000089_lr g.jpg
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hugli_ast_2000089_lr g.jpg
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2000-03-29
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Public Domain
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Public Domain
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2000
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