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Floods in Texas and Louisian
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Floods in Texas and Louisiana |
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Smudges and pools of blacktale-tell signs of floodingoutline the Neches, Sabine, and Calcasieu Rivers in the top satellite image. Taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite on October 24, 2006, the image was created with both infrared and visible light, a combination that makes water appear black, while plant-covered land is green. The floods that the image reveals occurred after heavy rain [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=13933 ] inundated Texas and Louisiana. The Neches, Sabine, and Calcasieu swelled as inland runoff drained through the rivers. By October 23, the Neches River was eight feet above flood stage near Beaumont, Texas, reported the Associated Press [ http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/23/texas.floods.ap/index.html ]. The floods destroyed about 40 homes in Beaumont, a region that was still recovering from a direct hit from Hurricane Rita [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=13166 ] in 2005. Cement-gray against the verdant landscape in these images, the city of Beaumont sits on the west bank of the Neches River. Smaller cities pepper the distance between Beaumont and its southern neighbor, Port Neches. Patches of tan are sparsely vegetated or plant-free stretches of land. Red boxes outline a few fires in the lower image, which was taken before the rain began. Daily images [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?USA7/2006297 ] of the U.S. Gulf Coast are available from the MODIS Rapid Response Team in both false color, as shown here, and photo-like, true color. NASA images courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC. |
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Floods in Texas and Louisian
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Floods in Texas and Louisiana |
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Smudges and pools of blacktale-tell signs of floodingoutline the Neches, Sabine, and Calcasieu Rivers in the top satellite image. Taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite on October 24, 2006, the image was created with both infrared and visible light, a combination that makes water appear black, while plant-covered land is green. The floods that the image reveals occurred after heavy rain [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=13933 ] inundated Texas and Louisiana. The Neches, Sabine, and Calcasieu swelled as inland runoff drained through the rivers. By October 23, the Neches River was eight feet above flood stage near Beaumont, Texas, reported the Associated Press [ http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/23/texas.floods.ap/index.html ]. The floods destroyed about 40 homes in Beaumont, a region that was still recovering from a direct hit from Hurricane Rita [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=13166 ] in 2005. Cement-gray against the verdant landscape in these images, the city of Beaumont sits on the west bank of the Neches River. Smaller cities pepper the distance between Beaumont and its southern neighbor, Port Neches. Patches of tan are sparsely vegetated or plant-free stretches of land. Red boxes outline a few fires in the lower image, which was taken before the rain began. Daily images [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?USA7/2006297 ] of the U.S. Gulf Coast are available from the MODIS Rapid Response Team in both false color, as shown here, and photo-like, true color. NASA images courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC. |
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Fires in Southern United Sta
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Fires in Southern United States |
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The combination of parched vegetation and gusty winds that caused dozens of devastating fires in New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma in the first week of 2006 has brought a similar fate to a wider area of the southern United States in the second week of January. Among the newly affected states is Arkansas. This image shows the southeast corner of the state, near the border with Louisiana. Two large fires were detected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov ] satellite when it collected this image on January 8, 2006. The image has been enhanced by the inclusion of shortwave and near-infrared energy that MODIS detected. Vegetation appears bright green, bare or thinly vegetated ground is tan, water is dark blue, and the actively burning areas of the fire appear bright pink (outlined in red). The image is shown at MODIS' maximum spatial resolution of 250 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response Team provides daily images [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?USA7 ] of the area in a variety of formats. NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team, [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] Goddard Space Flight Center |
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Fires in Southern United Sta
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Fires in Southern United States |
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Drought, high temperatures, and strong winds combined with holiday fireworks, trash fires, and careless cigarettes to create a disaster in parts of Texas and Oklahoma in late December 2005. According to the Associated Press, more than 70 fires blazed throughout north and central Texas and Oklahoma, many of them set by people ignoring local fire bans. By December 29, nearly 20,000 acres had burned in the region, more than 100 homes had been lost, and several people had died from fire-related injuries. This image shows parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana, as imaged by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] flying onboard the Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite. The sensor took this image on December 28, 2005, the same day that the fires caused the most damage. Cloud cover obscures part of the region, but hot spots, indicated in red, appear throughout the area, many of them sending up their own plumes of smoke. North and central Texas, where most of the fires occurred, saw its fifth driest year on record in 2005. In the Dallas-Forth Worth area, annual rainfall was about 41 centimeters (16 inches) below normal. In Oklahoma, the annual rainfall was about 30 centimeters (12 inches) below normal. Shortly before the grass fires spread throughout the region, local temperatures topped 27 degrees Celsius (80 degrees Fahrenheit) and worsened the already-dry conditions. The wind and heat abated somewhat after the fires started, but the National Weather Service predicted a return of heat and wind right before New Year's Day of 2006. Authorities expressed concern that a fresh round of holiday fireworks could touch off a fresh round of fires. NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained courtesy of the MODIS Rapid Response team. |
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Fires in the Southern United
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Fires in the Southern United States |
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In the southern United States on March 5, 2006, a number of fires were puffing small plumes of smoke that created hazy conditions across the region. This image of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov ] satellite. Places where the sensor detected actively burning fires are outlined in red. In Alabama, several individual puffs of smoke are visible in locations where the sensor did not detect a fire. This may be because those fires were not hot enough or large enough for the sensor to register them as "hot spots." A swath of haze lingers over the Gulf of Mexico at lower right. At lower left is the Mississippi River Delta. NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team, [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] Goddard Space Flight Center |
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Fires in Southern United Sta
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The combination of parched v
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Arkansas_fire.AMO2006008
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2006-01-08 |
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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Arkansas_fire.AMO2006008 |
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Forest Fire, Ouachita Nation
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Dry conditions and high wind
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ISS012-E-13692
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2006-01-02 |
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NASA -- Astronaut photograph eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS012&roll=E&frame=13692 ISS012-E-13692 was acquired January 2, 2006, with a Kodak 760C digital camera using a 400 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and the Image Science & Analysis Group, 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 will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. |
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Floods in Texas and Louisian
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Neches_AMO_2006297
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2006-10-24 |
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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Neches_AMO_2006297 |
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