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Light and Shadow in the Cari …
Title Light and Shadow in the Carina Nebula
Full Description Previously unseen details of a mysterious, complex structure within the Carina Nebula (NGC 3372) are revealed by this image of the "Keyhole Nebula," obtained with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The picture is a montage assembled from four different April 1999 telescope pointings with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2, which used six different color filters. The picture is dominated by a large, approximately circular feature, which is part of the Keyhole Nebula, named in the 19th century by Sir John Herschel. This region, about 8000 light-years from Earth, is located adjacent to the famous explosive variable star Eta Carinae, which lies just outside the field of view toward the upper right. The high resolution of the Hubble images reveals the relative three- dimensional locations of many of these features, as well as showing numerous small dark globules that may be in the process of collapsing to form new stars. Two striking large, sharp-edged dust clouds are located near the bottom center and upper left edges of the image. The former is immersed within the ring and the latter is just outside the ring. The pronounced pillars and knobs of the upper left cloud appear to point toward a luminous, massive star located just outside the field further toward the upper left, which may be responsible for illuminating and sculpting them by means of its high-energy radiation and stellar wind of high-velocity ejected material. These large dark clouds may eventually evaporate, or if there are sufficiently dense condensations within them, give birth to small star clusters. The Carina Nebula, with an overall diameter of more than 200 light- years, is one of the outstanding features of the Southern Hemisphere portion of the Milky Way. The diameter of the Keyhole ring structure shown here is about 7 light-years. These data were collected by the Hubble Heritage Team and Nolan R. Walborn (STScI), Rodolfo H. Barba' (La Plata Observatory, Argentina), and Adeline Caulet (France).
Date 02/03/2000
NASA Center Hubble Space Telescope Center
Light and Shadow in the Cari …
Title Light and Shadow in the Carina Nebula
General Information What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. Back to top [ #top ]
Ancient Black Hole Speeds Th …
Title Ancient Black Hole Speeds Through Sun's Galactic Neighborhood, Devouring Companion Star
A Futuristic Look at Earth I …
Title A Futuristic Look at Earth Imaging
Abstract As the scanning reticle in the left panel moves over this Hyperion dataset (the data from a region near Eldorado, Argentina), the spectral signature of the reflected light appears in the analysis panel on the left. Strong signatures of vegetation are apparent, with occasional signatures of water and the reticle passes over lakes and rivers. The analysis panel represents spectral bands 10 through 55. The entire Hyperion spectral range has 220 bands.
Completed 2001-04-10
A Futuristic Look at Earth I …
Title A Futuristic Look at Earth Imaging
Abstract As the scanning reticle in the left panel moves over this Hyperion dataset (the data from a region near Eldorado, Argentina), the spectral signature of the reflected light appears in the analysis panel on the left. Strong signatures of vegetation are apparent, with occasional signatures of water and the reticle passes over lakes and rivers. The analysis panel represents spectral bands 10 through 55. The entire Hyperion spectral range has 220 bands.
Completed 2001-04-10
Floods in Northern Argentina
Title Floods in Northern Argentina
Description Late summer rains pounded Northern Argentina in early 2007, triggering the floods shown in this image. The rains started in mid-January, and by March 21, when the top image was taken, the rainfall had caused floods along the Parana and Dulce Rivers and around Laguna Mar Chiquita. The rains were the heaviest seen in Northern Argentina in 45 years, said the Dartmouth Flood Observatory, [ http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7efloods/Archives/2007sum.htm ] and the resulting floods killed 5 and forced 5,000 from their homes. In these images, the floods stretch out over tens of kilometers east of the Parana River. The Dulce River fans across its mouth, where it empties into the Laguna Mar Chiquita. The lower image was taken on January 18, 2007, about the time that the rains started. Like the top image, this image was made with both visible and infrared light so that water is black or dark blue and clouds are pale blue and white. Plant-covered land is green, while bare earth is tan. Agricultural areas are a brighter shade of green than natural vegetation, and the fields give the land a speckled appearance. Similar images are available from the MODIS Rapid Response System [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?FAS_NArgentina/2007080 ] on a daily basis. NASA images courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC.
Floods in Northern Argentina
Title Floods in Northern Argentina
Description Late summer rains pounded Northern Argentina in early 2007, triggering the floods shown in this image. The rains started in mid-January, and by March 21, when the top image was taken, the rainfall had caused floods along the Parana and Dulce Rivers and around Laguna Mar Chiquita. The rains were the heaviest seen in Northern Argentina in 45 years, said the Dartmouth Flood Observatory, [ http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7efloods/Archives/2007sum.htm ] and the resulting floods killed 5 and forced 5,000 from their homes. In these images, the floods stretch out over tens of kilometers east of the Parana River. The Dulce River fans across its mouth, where it empties into the Laguna Mar Chiquita. The lower image was taken on January 18, 2007, about the time that the rains started. Like the top image, this image was made with both visible and infrared light so that water is black or dark blue and clouds are pale blue and white. Plant-covered land is green, while bare earth is tan. Agricultural areas are a brighter shade of green than natural vegetation, and the fields give the land a speckled appearance. Similar images are available from the MODIS Rapid Response System [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?FAS_NArgentina/2007080 ] on a daily basis. NASA images courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC.
Floods in Northern Argentina
Title Floods in Northern Argentina
Description One of South America's longest rivers, the Parana winds south from its headwaters in central Brazil through Paraguay and Argentina to empty into the Atlantic Ocean near Buenos Aires, Argentina. Near its mouth, the river widens into a multi-stream delta where it joins the Uruguay River to form the broad Rio de la Plata estuary. Small and neatly defined at the height of summer in mid-January, the delta section of the river stretched kilometers across its flood plain in response to unusually heavy late-summer and early-autumn rains by April. The top image, taken on April 3, 2007, shows that not only has the river expanded into a broad black band, but its tributaries are also swollen. Flecks of black south and west of the river show where water covers agricultural fields. These images, both collected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] satellite, were made with a combination of visible and infrared light to increase the contrast between mud-colored water and land. In these images, water is black or dark blue, and clouds are pale blue and white. Plant-covered land is bright green, and bare earth is tan. In the lower image, taken at the height of the growing season, the agricultural fields are green. By April, the crops had been harvested and the land left bare. The slightly orange color suggests that the fields may have been burned to clear away the stubble. Hugging the west bank of the Parana River, the city of Rosario is a gray-colored spot on the landscape. The floods extend north beyond the top edge of this image, affecting nearly four million hectares (15,000 square miles) and more than 70,000 people in two Argentine states, said the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA [ http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MCON-6ZX4CN?OpenDocument ]). The flooding was amplified when up to 500 millimeters of rain—more than half the average yearly rainfall—fell over northern Argentina in the span of a few days at the end of March, said OCHA. NASA images courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC.
Floods in Northern Argentina
Title Floods in Northern Argentina
Description One of South America's longest rivers, the Parana winds south from its headwaters in central Brazil through Paraguay and Argentina to empty into the Atlantic Ocean near Buenos Aires, Argentina. Near its mouth, the river widens into a multi-stream delta where it joins the Uruguay River to form the broad Rio de la Plata estuary. Small and neatly defined at the height of summer in mid-January, the delta section of the river stretched kilometers across its flood plain in response to unusually heavy late-summer and early-autumn rains by April. The top image, taken on April 3, 2007, shows that not only has the river expanded into a broad black band, but its tributaries are also swollen. Flecks of black south and west of the river show where water covers agricultural fields. These images, both collected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] satellite, were made with a combination of visible and infrared light to increase the contrast between mud-colored water and land. In these images, water is black or dark blue, and clouds are pale blue and white. Plant-covered land is bright green, and bare earth is tan. In the lower image, taken at the height of the growing season, the agricultural fields are green. By April, the crops had been harvested and the land left bare. The slightly orange color suggests that the fields may have been burned to clear away the stubble. Hugging the west bank of the Parana River, the city of Rosario is a gray-colored spot on the landscape. The floods extend north beyond the top edge of this image, affecting nearly four million hectares (15,000 square miles) and more than 70,000 people in two Argentine states, said the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA [ http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MCON-6ZX4CN?OpenDocument ]). The flooding was amplified when up to 500 millimeters of rain—more than half the average yearly rainfall—fell over northern Argentina in the span of a few days at the end of March, said OCHA. NASA images courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC.
EO-1 Launches!
Title EO-1 Launches!
Description These photos [view expanded images of launch (left) or view from above (right)] show the launch of the Boeing Delta II rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA, at 10:24 a.m. on November 21 PST, carrying a payload of three satellites into orbit. The payload included NASA's Earth Observer-1 (EO-1), Argentina's SAC-C, and Sweden's Munin spacecraft. Sixty minutes after lift-off, EO-1 was successfully deployed in orbit, SAC-C was deployed about 30 minutes later, and Munin deployed shortly after that. All three satellites are performing well. The launch of EO-1 marks the beginning of NASA's New Millennium Program (NMP), in which NASA is developing smaller, lighter spacecraft that meet or exceed the performance of current satellite technologies. The goal of NMP is to improve the on-orbit measurement capabilities of satellites while reducing the cost to build and launch them into space. Because its purpose is to demonstrate new technology on orbit, data from EO-1 will be made available only after the team completes its calibration and validation activities. Over the next two weeks, EO-1 and SAC-C will gradually be moved into their final orbital trajectories--flying very nearly from pole to pole at an altitude of 705 kilometers. The objective is to fly them in formation with Landsat 7 and Terra, two of NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) satellites already in orbit, so that their data may be cross compared for calibration and validation purposes. EO-1 will follow about 60 seconds behind Landsat 7, descending southward across the equator at about 10:16 a.m. local time. For more information see: * ? EO-1 Fact Sheet [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library/EO1 ] * ? EO-1 website [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/redirect?http://eo1.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] Launch photos courtesy Vandenberg Air Force Base and EO-1 Project Scientist Stephen Ungar
EO-1 Launches!
Title EO-1 Launches!
Description These photos [view expanded images of launch (left) or view from above (right)] show the launch of the Boeing Delta II rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA, at 10:24 a.m. on November 21 PST, carrying a payload of three satellites into orbit. The payload included NASA's Earth Observer-1 (EO-1), Argentina's SAC-C, and Sweden's Munin spacecraft. Sixty minutes after lift-off, EO-1 was successfully deployed in orbit, SAC-C was deployed about 30 minutes later, and Munin deployed shortly after that. All three satellites are performing well. The launch of EO-1 marks the beginning of NASA's New Millennium Program (NMP), in which NASA is developing smaller, lighter spacecraft that meet or exceed the performance of current satellite technologies. The goal of NMP is to improve the on-orbit measurement capabilities of satellites while reducing the cost to build and launch them into space. Because its purpose is to demonstrate new technology on orbit, data from EO-1 will be made available only after the team completes its calibration and validation activities. Over the next two weeks, EO-1 and SAC-C will gradually be moved into their final orbital trajectories--flying very nearly from pole to pole at an altitude of 705 kilometers. The objective is to fly them in formation with Landsat 7 and Terra, two of NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) satellites already in orbit, so that their data may be cross compared for calibration and validation purposes. EO-1 will follow about 60 seconds behind Landsat 7, descending southward across the equator at about 10:16 a.m. local time. For more information see: * ? EO-1 Fact Sheet [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library/EO1 ] * ? EO-1 website [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/redirect?http://eo1.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] Launch photos courtesy Vandenberg Air Force Base and EO-1 Project Scientist Stephen Ungar
Maipo Volcano, Chile
Title Maipo Volcano, Chile
Description The high peaks of the Andes form the backbone of South America and the political border between Chile and Argentina. Formed from the subduction of the Nazca Plate under the South American Plate, the south-central Andes also includes several major volcanoes. One of the most active border volcanoes is Volcan Maipo, located just southeast of Santiago, Chile. The volcano's summit (5264m) rests in the large Diamante Caldera, and is defined by a radial drainage pattern highlighted by snow cover (center right of image). Lava flows from an 1826 eruption blocked drainage within the caldera, forming Lake Diamante. The lake is a popular tourist destination. Maipo's last significant eruption was in 1908. Imagery of the region from the International Space Station includes seasonal observations—this image shows the volcano near the southern hemisphere spring equinox. The lake, just east of Maipo's peak, is still ice covered. However, the increasing temperatures of spring are suggested by a muddy-looking streak near the lower left corner. The streak appears to be a landslide or avalanche that flowed westward down a rugged slope, possibly triggered by instability in the snowpack due to snow melt. Astronaut photograph ISS009-E-22625 [ http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS009&roll=E&frame=22625 ] was acquired September 14, 2004 with a Kodak 760C digital camera with a 180 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and the Image Science & Analysis Group, Johnson Space Center. The International Space Station Program [ http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/ ] 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 Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. [ http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ ]
Phytoplankton Bloom off Arge …
Title Phytoplankton Bloom off Argentina
Description The Atlantic Ocean was awash with color on December 18, 2006, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] satellite captured this image. The brilliant greens and blues are densely concentrated, microscopic plants growing on the surface of the ocean. Called phytoplankton, the plants thrive in the cool, nutrient-rich waters off the coast of Argentina. Here, the Malvinas (Falkland) Current sweeps north from the frigid Southern Ocean along the shallow continental shelf. The interaction of the current with the edge of the shelf pulls nutrients from the shelf floor to the surface, and this provides the "fertilizer" needed to drive plant growth. The resulting bloom stretches in a long, thin line along the continental shelf. Because phytoplankton sit at the base of the marine food chain, the parts of the ocean that support large blooms tend to have a large and diverse population of fish and other animals. Phytoplankton also play an important role in the global carbon cycle. Like all plants, phytoplankton soak up carbon dioxide, providing a crucial sink for the greenhouse gas. Rising ocean temperatures in the past decade have caused global phytoplankton productivity to decline [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17482 ], though some evidence suggests that productivity in the South Atlantic off Argentina may be increasing. The high-resolution image provided above is at MODIS' full spatial resolution (level of detail) of 250 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response System provides this image at additional resolutions. You can also download a 250-meter-resolution KMZ file [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/Archive/Dec2006/Argentina.A2006352.1335.250m.kmz ] for use with Google Earth. [ http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html ] Image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC
Fires in Central South Ameri …
Title Fires in Central South America
Description In central South America, smoke pours from hundreds of fires burning across parts of Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina in this Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image captured by the Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov ] satellite on September 3, 2005. Locations where MODIS detected active fires are marked in red. Along the top portion of the scene is the Amazon Rainforest, which transitions to drier woodlands and mixed grassland landscapes farther south. Fires congregate along new roads and at the edges of existing clearings in the Amazon, indicating they are caused by people clearing or managing existing agricultural land. While they are not necessarily immediately hazardous, such fires can have a strong impact on weather, climate, human health, and natural resources. NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained from the Goddard Land Processes DAAC.
Record Crops in Argentina
Title Record Crops in Argentina
Description Despite damaging floods, Argentine farmers were expecting a record harvest in April 2007, reported the United States Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS [ http://www.pecad.fas.usda.gov/wap.cfm# ]). Farmers anticipated a record 45.5 million tons of soybeans and a record 22 million tons of corn when the harvest began at the beginning of the month, said FAS. At the end of March, more than 500 millimeters of rain (about half the average annual rainfall) fell in the period of a few days over parts of the Santa Fe and Entre Ríos provinces, the land spanning the Paraná River. The rain fell on ground already soggy from excess rain, triggering extensive flooding. The floods destroyed between 0.5 and 2 million tons of soy, but caused little damage to the already mature corn crop, said FAS. Both the thriving crops and the flood damage to vegetation are shown in this image. The image shows a vegetation index, a record of plant growth, compiled between March 22 and April 6, 2007, immediately following the damaging rains and floods. The image compares the 2007 vegetation growth to average conditions observed by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] satellite during that same interval between 2000 and 2005. Areas where plants are growing faster or thicker than normal are green, while areas where plant growth has slowed or where plants are less dense than average are brown. The Paraná River is outlined in brown where the overflowing river destroyed vegetation. The land south and west of the river is also dominated by brown, indicating that plants were less healthy than average, probably because of excess rain. This pattern of damage matches the flooding shown in daily snapshot images [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=14206 ] of Argentina. Other crop areas in the country are green, showing that growing conditions were good. Even within the flood area, tiny flecks of green show that some fields are still flourishing. Areas where MODIS didn't collect data—probably because of persistent cloud cover—are gray. NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data provided by Inbal Reshef as part of the Global Agricultural Monitoring Project [ http://www.pecad.fas.usda.gov/glam.cfm ] between NASA, USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), and the University of Maryland.
Fires in South America
Title Fires in South America
Description Fires were widespread across South America on August 24, 2006, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov ] satellite passed over the continent and captured this image. The sensor detected scores of active fires (locations marked in red) in a variety of ecological regions, and thick smoke hung over the land in many places. In the top part of the image, fires are burning intensely along the margins of large, tan-colored clearings that people have made in the Amazon Rainforest. The fires along the edges of the clearing may be fires set intentionally to clear new areas of rainforest for farming or ranching, or they may be accidental fires that escaped from people's control on established agricultural lands. In the center of the scene, the deep green of the Amazon transitions to a deep brown color. This region is known as the Gran Chaco, a dry, hot region of open woodland and grassland. Unlike the Amazon, this region is prone to naturally occurring fires, but the widespread nature of the fires and their location along clearings and roads suggests that many could be human-caused. In southern Brazil, eastern Argentina, and Uruguay, an expansive grassland known as the Pampas was also experiencing numerous fires at the time of this image. Large farms and ranches exist in the fertile plains of the Pampas, and the fires seen here could be natural or human-caused. The high-resolution image provided above has a spatial resolution of 500 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response System provides this image at additional resolutions, [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2006235-0823/Brazil.A2006235.1735 ] including MODIS' maximum resolution of 250 meters per pixel. You can also download a 250 m resolution KMZ file [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/Archive/Aug2006/Brazil.A2006235.1735.250m.kmz ] for use with Google Earth. [ http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html ] NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] Goddard Space Flight Center.
Fires in South America
Title Fires in South America
Description Fires were widespread across South America on August 24, 2006, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov ] satellite passed over the continent and captured this image. The sensor detected scores of active fires (locations marked in red) in a variety of ecological regions, and thick smoke hung over the land in many places. In the top part of the image, fires are burning intensely along the margins of large, tan-colored clearings that people have made in the Amazon Rainforest. The fires along the edges of the clearing may be fires set intentionally to clear new areas of rainforest for farming or ranching, or they may be accidental fires that escaped from people's control on established agricultural lands. In the center of the scene, the deep green of the Amazon transitions to a deep brown color. This region is known as the Gran Chaco, a dry, hot region of open woodland and grassland. Unlike the Amazon, this region is prone to naturally occurring fires, but the widespread nature of the fires and their location along clearings and roads suggests that many could be human-caused. In southern Brazil, eastern Argentina, and Uruguay, an expansive grassland known as the Pampas was also experiencing numerous fires at the time of this image. Large farms and ranches exist in the fertile plains of the Pampas, and the fires seen here could be natural or human-caused. The high-resolution image provided above has a spatial resolution of 500 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response System provides this image at additional resolutions, [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2006235-0823/Brazil.A2006235.1735 ] including MODIS' maximum resolution of 250 meters per pixel. You can also download a 250 m resolution KMZ file [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/Archive/Aug2006/Brazil.A2006235.1735.250m.kmz ] for use with Google Earth. [ http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html ] NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] Goddard Space Flight Center.
A Space Station Meets its De …
Title A Space Station Meets its Destiny
Explanation The International Space Station (ISS) had a date with Destiny earlier this month. More specifically, the crew [ http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/archives/sts-98/crew/ ] of the Space Shuttle Atlantis [ http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/resources/orbiters/atlantis.html ] installed the science laboratory named Destiny [ http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/assembly/elements/uslab/ ] on the ISS [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000918.html ]. Destiny, pictured here [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010228.html http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-98/html/s98e5310.html ], will also serve as a control center for the Earth orbiting space station [ http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/assembly/ ]. To help install this module, space shuttle astronauts [ http://spacelink.nasa.gov/NASA.Projects/Human.Exploration.and.Development.of.Space/Astronauts/.index.html ] conducted the 100th space walk by an American [ http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/spacenews/releases/H01-16.html ], an event that occurred nearly 40 years after Ed White first ventured outside of his Gemini 4 spacecraft [ http://www.nasm.edu/nasm/dsh/artifacts/HS-Gemini4.htm ]. The space shuttle's crew took the above picture [ http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-98/html/s98e5314.html ] after their spacecraft had undocked from the space station. Over two hundred kilometers below lies the Rio Negro [ http://www.legisrn.gov.ar/ ] region of Argentina [ http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ar.html ].
STS-55 Earth observation of …
Title STS-55 Earth observation of Altiplano ash/dust plume in Argentina
Description STS-55 Earth observation taken from Columbia, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 102, shows several plumes of blowing material over northern Argentina. All plumes originate downwind of the recent volcanic eruption of Lascar Volcano (just over the border in northern Chile). It seems most likely, therefore, that the blown material is dust-sized particles of ash that was deposited on the high Andean plateau by Lascar during the eruption of 04-20-93. The large, dense, V-shaped plume in this frame is about 40 kilometers long. It is blowing eastwards from a point about 100 km southeast of Lascar. On 05-10-93, images from the AVHRR sensor on the environmental satellite NOAA-11 showed the dust from these parts of Altiplano reaching the lowlands hundreds of kilometers to the east. This photo was recorded on 05-04-93 at 19 hours 10 minutes 38 seconds GMT.
Date 05.06.1993
Phytoplankton Bloom off Arge …
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The Atlantic Ocean was awash …
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Fires and Thick Smoke over S …
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Hundreds, possibly thousands …
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Floods in Northern Argentina …
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Floods in Northern Argentina …
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STS-65 Earth observation of …
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Fires and Smoke Across South …
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The skies over the heart of …
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View of Argentina-Paraguay b …
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A vertical view of the Argen …
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NASA's Aquarius/SAC-D Missio …
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Seated from left, Eric Linds …
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Aquarius SAC-D Post-Launch B …
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From left, George Diller, NA …
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Mosaic of the Southern Patag …
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Outside of Antarctica, the l …
SPIFmosaic_540
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creator NASA -- This image is a mosaic of two digital photographs (ISS004-ESC-6737 and ISS004-ESC-6738) taken by astronauts onboard the International Space Station in January 2002. Images were provided by the eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory at Johnson Space Center. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA-JSC eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/ Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth .
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Mosaic of the Southern Patag …
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Outside of Antarctica, the l …
SPIFmosaic_540
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date 2002
creator NASA -- This image is a mosaic of two digital photographs (ISS004-ESC-6737 and ISS004-ESC-6738) taken by astronauts onboard the International Space Station in January 2002. Images were provided by the eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory at Johnson Space Center. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA-JSC eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/ Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth .
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Aquarius SAC-D Post-Launch B …
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Seated from left, George Dil …
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Glacial Retreat in Argentina …
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For the crew onboard the Int …
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creator NASA -- Photograph eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS008&roll=E&frame=11807 ISS008-E-11807 was taken from the International Space Station using a Kodak DCS760 digital camera: and a 400 mm lens on 3 January 2004. The January 2001 position was determined by coarse image referencing with another Space Station photography, eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS001&roll=E&frame=5318 ISS001-E-5318, taken in January 2001. Details provided by Michael Trenchard and Julie A. Robinson, Earth Observations Laboratory (Lockheed Martin), Johnson Space Center. The spaceflight.nasa.gov/ 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 Gateway to eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ Astronaut Photography of Earth.
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Glacial Retreat in Argentina …
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For the crew onboard the Int …
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creator NASA -- Photograph eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS008&roll=E&frame=11807 ISS008-E-11807 was taken from the International Space Station using a Kodak DCS760 digital camera: and a 400 mm lens on 3 January 2004. The January 2001 position was determined by coarse image referencing with another Space Station photography, eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS001&roll=E&frame=5318 ISS001-E-5318, taken in January 2001. Details provided by Michael Trenchard and Julie A. Robinson, Earth Observations Laboratory (Lockheed Martin), Johnson Space Center. The spaceflight.nasa.gov/ 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 Gateway to eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ Astronaut Photography of Earth.
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Glacial Retreat in Argentina …
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For the crew onboard the Int …
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date 2004-01-03
creator NASA -- Photograph eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS008&roll=E&frame=11807 ISS008-E-11807 was taken from the International Space Station using a Kodak DCS760 digital camera: and a 400 mm lens on 3 January 2004. The January 2001 position was determined by coarse image referencing with another Space Station photography, eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS001&roll=E&frame=5318 ISS001-E-5318, taken in January 2001. Details provided by Michael Trenchard and Julie A. Robinson, Earth Observations Laboratory (Lockheed Martin), Johnson Space Center. The spaceflight.nasa.gov/ 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 Gateway to eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ Astronaut Photography of Earth.
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Aquarius SAC-D Science Brief …
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From left, George Diller, NA …
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Aquarius SAC-D Science Brief …
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Gary Lagerloef, Aquarius Pri …
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Earth observations taken fro …
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Earth observations taken fro …
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Basalt Cliffs, Patagonia, Ar …
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Full size images: earthobser …
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Hyperspectral Imaging : Imag …
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The Hyperion instrument aboa …
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Chile's Chaiten Volcano Erup …
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Three days after its surpris …
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Chile's Chaiten Volcano Erup …
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Three days after its surpris …
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NASA's Aquarius/SAC-D Missio …
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A reporter asks a question t …
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Hundreds of Fires in Bolivia …
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Hundreds, possibly thousands …
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Fires in Central South Ameri …
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In central South America, sm …
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First Images from EO-1 Satel …
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Scientists have seen the fir …
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SRTM and Landsat views of Pa …
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This view of northern Patago …
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Record Crops in Argentina: N …
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Despite damaging floods, Arg …
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Rosario, Argentina: Image of …
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The Parana River, in the cen …
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date 2005-05-19
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Phytoplankton Bloom off Pata …
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On December 5, 2006, a phyto …
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date 2006-12-05
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Aquarius SAC-D Science Brief …
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From left, Gary Lagerloef, A …
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