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Hurricane Felix
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Hurricane Felix |
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Category 5 hurricanes are rare. Rarer still is the storm that makes landfall as a Category 5 [ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutsshs.shtml ] storm—most weaken before hitting land. Yet, exactly two weeks after Hurricane Dean struck the Yucatan Peninsula as a Category 5 storm, Hurricane Felix roared ashore as yet another. Felix came ashore over northeastern Nicaragua on September 4, 2007, with sustained winds of 260 kilometers per hour (160 miles per hour), said the National Hurricane Center. [ http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ ] Forecasters predicted that Felix would continue to move west over Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico. Heavy rain in these mountainous regions could trigger devastating floods and mudslides. This area is the same region which suffered major damage from Hurricane Mitch in 1998. Though better prepared this time for such a storm, many fear a repeat of Mitch's devastation. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] satellite captured this image of Hurricane Felix at 10:10 a.m. local time (16:10 UTC) on September 4, 2007. At that time, Felix had slammed into the mountains of Nicaragua and lost enough power to be rated a Category 3 hurricane, with sustained wind speeds of 200 km/hr (120 mph). The clear eye present on September 3 [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=14483 ] was gone, but the storm retained the tight spiral shape of a very powerful storm. The large image provided above has a resolution of 250 meters per pixel, MODIS' maximum resolution. The image is available in additional resolutions [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2007247-0904/Felix.A2007247.1610 ] from the MODIS Rapid Response System. You can download a 250-meter-resolution KMZ file of Hurricane Felix [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/Archive/Sep2007/Felix.A2007247.1610.250m.kmz ] suitable for use with Google Earth. [ http://earth.google.com/ ] NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] Goddard Space Flight Center. |
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Hurricane Stan Floods Centra
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Hurricane Stan Floods Central America |
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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 [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] 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 MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC |
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Hurricane Stan Floods Centra
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Hurricane Stan Floods Central America |
| 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 [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] 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 MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC |
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Nicaragua's San Cristobal Er
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Nicaragua's San Cristobal Erupts |
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A small plume of steam and possibly ash was wafting westward from the San Cristobal Volcano in northwestern Nicaragua (bottom right quadrant) on December 16, 2002. At the time this Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image was acquired by the Terra satellite, no detectable heat signature was present at the volcano, but a few fires were detected and are marked with red outlines. San Cristobal is an active stratovolcano in the San Cristobal complex on the west coast of Nicaragua. The volcano periodically spits out ash and smoke over the Central American jungles. In the center of the image, the gray-green patchwork is a large wetland along the shore of the Gulf of Fonseca, which touches Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador. Image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC |
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Fires in Mexico and Central
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Fires in Mexico and Central America |
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Southern Mexico (left and center), Guatemala (below center), El Salvador (bottom, right of center), Honduras (lower right), and Nicaragua (lower right corner) are blanketed with smoke from hundreds of fires (marked with red dots) burning in the region on April 28, 2003. These fires have been burning off and on for two months, periodically sending smoke northward across the Gulf of Mexico toward the southern U.S. The high-resolution image provided above is 500 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response System provides this image at MODIS? maximum spatial resolution of 250 meters. Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC |
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Fires in Mexico and Central
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Fires in Mexico and Central America |
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As can be seen in this true-color scene acquired on April 2, 2002, many fires dot the landscape across portions of Central America. This image spans from Mexico?s Yucatan Peninsula across Guatemala and into El Salvador and Honduras. This image was acquired by the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer [ http://modarch.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] (MODIS), flying aboard NASA?s Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] satellite. The red boxes (see the high-resolution image) indicate where active fires were burning. Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] at NASA GSFC |
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Fires in Mexico and Central
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Fires in Mexico and Central America |
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As can be seen in this true-color scene acquired on April 9, 2002, many fires dotted the landscape across portions of Central America. This image spans from Mexico?s Yucatan Peninsula across Guatemala and into El Salvador and Honduras. This image was acquired by the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer [ http://modarch.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] (MODIS), flying aboard NASA?s Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] satellite. Please note that the high-resolution scene provided here is 500 meters per pixel. For a copy of this scene at the sensor?s fullest resolution, visit the MODIS Rapidfire [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2002092-0402 ] site. Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] at NASA GSFC |
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Fires in the Yucatan and Cen
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Fires in the Yucatan and Central America |
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On April 4, 2006, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] on NASA's Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov ] satellite captured this image showing numerous fires (marked in red) burning across the Yucatan Peninsula (top center), and the Central American countries to the south: Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua. Although MODIS cannot tell the cause of fires, April is one of the dry-season months in the area, and it is possible that the fires are a mixture of intentional agriculture-related fires and accidental or natural forest fires. The high-resolution image provided above has a spatial resolution of 500 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response Team provides daily subsets [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/ ] of the region in a variety of resolutions and formats. NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team, [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] Goddard Space Flight Center. |
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Tropical Storm Adrian
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Tropical Storm Adrian |
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Hurricane Adrian was zeroing in on the Pacific coast of El Salvador and Guatemala when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA?s Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] satellite captured this image on May 19, 2005, at 10:45 a.m., Pacific Daylight Time. This highly unusual storm is the first of the 2005 Pacific hurricane season, having formed on May 17, just two days after the season officially started. The storm intensified over a pocket of warm water and moved east toward Guatemala and El Salvador. Adrian reached hurricane status about the time this image was acquired. Hurricane Adrian is unusual not because of its strength?it?s actually a weak storm? or because of its timing, though no tropical storm has ever struck Central America this early in May, rather, Adrian is rare because of its path. Most hurricanes that form in the Pacific head north into Mexico or west to dissipate over the ocean. Adrian moved east. Since 1966, only four cyclones have made landfall over Guatemala or El Salvador, and Adrian?s current path will make it the fifth. The outer bands of clouds were already over land when MODIS captured this image. The biggest threat that Adrian poses to Central America is from the heavy rain it may dump on the region. Rugged mountains stretch across El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, and heavy rain could trigger flash floods and mudslides. If Adrian survives its encounter with the mountains of Central America, it could emerge as a tropical system in the Caribbean. Occasionally, storms will cross from the Atlantic into the Pacific, but it is rare for a storm to move from the Pacific into the Atlantic, as Adrian could. The large version of this image has a resolution of 250 meters per pixel. The image is available in additional resolutions [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2005139-0519/Adrian.A2005139.1645 ] from the MODIS Rapid Response Team. Image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC |
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Hurricane Felix: Natural Haz
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
Category 5 hurricanes are ra
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felix_tmo_2007247
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2007-09-04 |
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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felix_tmo_2007247 |
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Fires in Mexico and Central
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
As can be seen in this true-
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Yucatan_M2002099
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2002-04-09 |
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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Yucatan_M2002099 |
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Fires in Central America: Im
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As can be seen in this true-
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YucatanFires_M2002092
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2002-04-02 |
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NASA -- Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC |
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YucatanFires_M2002092 |
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Hurricane Adrian: Image of t
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Hurricane Adrian was zeroing
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Adrian_TMO_2005139
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2005-05-19 |
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NASA -- Image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC |
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Adrian_TMO_2005139 |
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Pollution from Fires in Cent
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The widespread and intense b
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yucatan_mop_2003121
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2003-05-01 |
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NASA -- Image courtesy the NCAR and University of Toronto www.eos.ucar.edu/mopitt/ MOPITT Teams |
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yucatan_mop_2003121 |
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Santa Ana Volcano, El Salvad
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santaana_ast_2001033
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2005-10-01 |
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NASA -- NASA image by Robert Simmon, based on data provided by Timothy Gubbels and Asad Ullah, SSAI, and the NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/ ASTER Science Team |
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santaana_ast_2001033 |
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Nicaragua's San Cristobal Er
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
A small plume of steam and p
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Nicaragua.TMOA2002350
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2002-12-16 |
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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Nicaragua.TMOA2002350 |
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Hurricane Stan Floods Centra
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
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guatemala_tmo_2005285
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2005-10-12 |
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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guatemala_tmo_2005285 |
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Aquatic Plants Choke Lake Ol
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Water hyacinth, or ranks amo
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ge_07761
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image |
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2005-11-22 |
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NASA -- NASA images created by Gregg Bluth and Matt Patrick at Michigan Technological University, using data provided courtesy of the NASA/GSFC/MITI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team. Image interpretation by Gregg Bluth. |
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ge_07761 |
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Aquatic Plants Choke Lake Ol
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nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle
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Water hyacinth, or ranks amo
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ge_07761
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IMAGE |
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image |
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2005-11-22 |
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NASA -- NASA images created by Gregg Bluth and Matt Patrick at Michigan Technological University, using data provided courtesy of the NASA/GSFC/MITI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team. Image interpretation by Gregg Bluth. |
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ge_07761 |
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Fires in the Yucatan and Cen
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
On April 4, 2006, the Modera
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CAmerica.TMO2006094
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2006-04-04 |
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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CAmerica.TMO2006094 |
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