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Snow in Iraq: Natural Hazards
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Snow in Iraq: Natural Hazards
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Iraqis in Baghdad woke to the novelty of white flakes drifting to the ground as the city experienced its first snowfall in about 100 years on January 11, 2008, reported the afp.google.com/artic le/ALeqM5huPkYk4bGVv o1Sa1tWeH-tgENiFw AFP news service. Though the snow melted as it hit the ground in Baghdad, it lingered in the mountains in the north and east, where it is more common. Snow still covered the desert when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer ( modis.gsfc.nasa.gov MODIS ) flying on NASA's terra.nasa.gov/ Terra satellite captured this image on the morning of January 12, 2008.
The top image shows Iraq in visible light, as the human eye would see it. The desert landscape is predominately tan and brown with a web of brown-green vegetation lining the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. The cement-colored city of Baghdad is near the bottom edge of the image. The bottom image shows the same scene in infrared and visible light. This combination helps distinguish between cloud and snow, since the snow is turquoise, and the clouds are white.
NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using data obtained from the ladsweb.nascom.nasa. gov/ Goddard Land Processes data archives (LAADS). Caption by Holli Riebeek.
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Iraqis in Baghdad woke to the novelty of white flakes drifting to the ground as the city experienced its first snowfall in about 100 years on January 11, 2008, reported the afp.google.com/artic le/ALeqM5huPkYk4bGVv o1Sa1tWeH-tgENiFw AFP news service. Though the snow melted as it hit the ground in Baghdad, it lingered in the mountains in the north and east, where it is more common. Snow still covered the desert when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer ( modis.gsfc.nasa.gov MODIS ) flying on NASA's terra.nasa.gov/ Terra satellite captured this image on the morning of January 12, 2008.
The top image shows Iraq in visible light, as the human eye would see it. The desert landscape is predominately tan and brown with a web of brown-green vegetation lining the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. The cement-colored city of Baghdad is near the bottom edge of the image. The bottom image shows the same scene in infrared and visible light. This combination helps distinguish between cloud and snow, since the snow is turquoise, and the clouds are white.
NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using data obtained from the ladsweb.nascom.nasa. gov/ Goddard Land Processes data archives (LAADS). Caption by Holli Riebeek.
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What -- Visible Light
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What -- Visible Light
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What -- Terra
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What -- Terra
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Where -- Baghdad
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Where -- Baghdad
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Where -- Iraq
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Where -- Iraq
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Visible Light
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Terra
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Iraq
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Baghdad
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iraq_tmo_2008012_721
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iraq_tmo_2008012_721
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gwilliam@archive.org
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gwilliam@archive.org
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2011-08-02 11:15:54
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2011-08-02 11:15:54
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2011-08-02 11:15:54
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2011-08-02 11:15:54
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
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file:/home/lunaadmin /Source_download/201 108/1/iraq_tmo_20080 12_721/iraq_tmo_2008 012_lrg.jpg
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file:/home/lunaadmin /Source_download/201 108/1/iraq_tmo_20080 12_721/iraq_tmo_2008 012_lrg.jpg
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iraq_tmo_2008012_lrg .jpg
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iraq_tmo_2008012_lrg .jpg
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2008-01-12
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Public Domain
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Public Domain
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2008
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