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Fires in Southern Europe
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Fires in Southern Europe |
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While fires in Greece [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=14474 ] appeared to have quieted down at the end of August 2007, fires continued to burn in Albania and Montenegro. This image of the Balkans was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov ] satellite on August 29, 2007. Places where the sensor detected actively burning fires are marked in red. Smoke spreads eastward over Serbia. Fire activity has been occurring off and on in the Balkans since July. You can download a 250-meter-resolution KMZ file of fires in and around Albania [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/Archive/Aug2007/albania_amo_2007241.kmz ] suitable for use with Google Earth. [ http://earth.google.com/ ] NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using data obtained from the Goddard Land Processes data archives (LAADS). [ http://laads.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] |
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Space Station Over the Ionia
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Space Station Over the Ionian Sea |
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Last August, the Space Shuttle Endeavour crew captured this shot of the International Space Station (ISS) against the backdrop of Planet Earth. During that trip [ http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/ sts118/mission_overview.html ] to the ISS [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070625.html ], the space shuttle [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle ] crew re-supplied the station, repaired the station, and even built more [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap021217.html ] of the station. Its primary mission complete, the crew took the premier spaceship [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060713.html ] on a tour around the premier space [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISS ] station. Pictured [ http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/ sts-118/html/s118e09467.html ] during this inspection tour, the ISS is visible in front the Ionian Sea [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionian_Sea ]. The boot [ http://podiatry.curtin.edu.au/boot.html ] of Italy [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy ] is visible on the left, while the western coastlines of Greece [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece ] and Albania [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albania ] stretch across [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/ images.php3?img_id=17777 ] the top. The dorsal fin [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorsal_fin ] of the upside-down [ http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ ae524.cfm ] shuttle orbiter pokes into the very top of the image. The Space Shuttle Discovery subsequently visited the ISS [ http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/ sts120/ ] in October while the next shuttle mission [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ List_of_space_shuttle_missions ] to the ISS is scheduled for next week. |
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albania_amo_2007241
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2007-08-29 |
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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International Space Station
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The crew of the Space Shuttl
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STS118-E-9469
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2007-08-19 |
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NASA -- Featured astronaut photograph eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=STS118&roll=E&frame=9469 STS118-E-9469 was acquired by the www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts118/main/118_crew.html STS-118 crew on August 19, 2007, with a Kodak 760C digital camera using a 28 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and Image Science & Analysis Laboratory at Johnson Space Center. The image in this article has been enhanced to improve contrast. 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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MISR Looks at Yugoslavia
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MISR Looks at Yugoslavia |
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These MISR nadir camera images of Yugoslavia were acquired on July 28, 2000 during Terra orbit 3248. On the left is a "true color" (blue, green, red) image. Vegetation, which covers much of the land area, appears green because chlorophyll molecules absorb more blue and red light than green light. An independent method of detecting vegetation is to use the ratio of brightness in the near-infrared, where vegetation is typically bright as a result of reflection from the plants' cell walls, to the brightness in the red. In the middle "false color" image, this ratio has been substituted for the green band data, resulting in a representation that accentuates the land's vegetation. Yugoslavia is comprised of the Republics of Serbia and Montenegro. Serbia is over six times larger than Montenegro, and together they cover an area roughly comparable to the state of Kentucky. The northern part of Serbia contains fertile plains and a temperate continental climate, with gradual transitions between the seasons. Montenegro is more mountainous, and can experience heavy snowfall during the cold winters. About 10 kilometers from the Adriatic coast is Lake Skadar, the largest lake in the Balkans. Two-thirds of this lake belongs to Montenegro and one-third to Albania. The image on the right is a higher resolution view of the region around the Yugoslavian capital city of Belgrade, highlighting some of the major rivers in the area. The international roads and railways passing through Yugoslavia's river valleys constitute the shortest link between Western and Central Europe on the one side, and the Middle East, Asia, and Africa on the other. Hence the geopolitical importance of this country's territory. The geopolitical changes throughout its history have put Yugoslavia in the worldwide spotlight, culminating most recently in a popular uprising and a newly elected government. MISR was built and is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, for NASA's Office of Earth Science, Washington, DC. The Terra satellite is managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology. |
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