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Title:
Hurricane Stan Floods Central America Title Hurricane Stan Floods Central America Title
Description:
Devastating floods swept across Guatemala in early October 2005. Stan, a tropical cyclone that wavered between hurricane and tropical storm, showered the country with heavy rain for several days starting on October 1. When the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured the top image on October 12, all of the rivers draining from the Sierra Madre into the Pacific Ocean were brimming with flood water. Water, black and dark blue in the false-color image, widens the rivers and smudges the surrounding landscape with dark colors. Terra MODIS acquired the lower image on September 10, 2005. The scene is clear enough to show Lake Atitlan, the location of massive mudslides which buried thousands in the Mayan town of Panabaj. Destructive mudslides, though none so large, plagued communities throughout Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Mexico. NASA images courtesy Jesse Allen, based on data from the MOD IS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC Description Devastating floods swept across Guatemala in early October 2005. Stan, a tropical cyclone that wavered between hurricane and tropical storm, showered the country with heavy rain for several days starting on October 1. When the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured the top image on October 12, all of the rivers draining from the Sierra Madre into the Pacific Ocean were brimming with flood water. Water, black and dark blue in the false-color image, widens the rivers and smudges the surrounding landscape with dark colors. Terra MODIS acquired the lower image on September 10, 2005. The scene is clear enough to show Lake Atitlan, the location of massive mudslides which buried thousands in the Mayan town of Panabaj. Destructive mudslides, though none so large, plagued communities throughout Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Mexico. NASA images courtesy Jesse Allen, based on data from the MOD IS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC Description
Satellite - Sensor:
Terra- MODIS Satellite_-_Sensor Terra- MODIS Satellite - Sensor
facet_what:
Terra facet_what Terra facet_what
facet_where:
Pacific Ocean facet_where Pacific Ocean facet_where
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El Salvador facet_where El Salvador facet_where
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Guatemala facet_where Guatemala facet_where
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Honduras facet_where Honduras facet_where
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Nicaragua facet_where Nicaragua facet_where
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Salvador facet_where Salvador facet_where
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Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) facet_where Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) facet_where
facet_when:
September 10, 2005 facet_when September 10, 2005 facet_when
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October 2005 facet_when October 2005 facet_when
facet_when_year:
2005 facet_when_year 2005 facet_when_year
UID:
SPD-ETOBS-13200 UID SPD-ETOBS-13200 UID
original url:
http://earthobserva… original_url http://earthobserva… original url

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