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Dust over the Persian Gulf
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Dust over the Persian Gulf |
| Description |
Dust blew off the coast of the United Arab Emirates on October 10, 2007. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] on NASA's Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov ] satellite took this picture the same day. The beige dust plume is obvious as it blows westward off the coast and over the Persian Gulf. West of the dust plume is another plume of aerosols, particles of liquid or solid suspended in the atmosphere. The origin of this plume is not as obvious, and it could result from an earlier dust storm, or from smoke or haze. NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC. The Rapid Response Team provides daily images [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?AERONET_Dhabi ] of this region. |
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Dust Storm Over Persian Gulf
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Dust Storm Over Persian Gulf |
| Description |
On May 14, 2004, the morning overpass of the Terra satellite over the Persian Gulf captured this image of a large dust storm spreading a veil of dust over the water and the countries surrounding the shores: (clockwise from top left corner) Iraq, Iran, United Arab Emirates, Saudia Arabia, and Kuwait. The peninsular country on the western shore of the Gulf is Qatar. The dust swirls in streamers, arcs, and parallel lines over more than half the Gulf. The high-resolution image provided above is 500 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response System provides this image at additional resolutions. Image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA-GSFC |
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Red Plankton in the Arabian
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nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle
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In the Arabian Sea, sunlight
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PIA04369
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IMAGE |
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image |
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2004-10-02 |
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NASA -- Image courtesy NASA/GSFC/LaRC/JPL, www-misr.jpl.nasa.gov/ MISR Team. Text by Clare Averill (Raytheon/JPL) and Dr. Patria Viva F. Banzon (University of Miami). |
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PIA04369 |
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Dust Storm over the Persian
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
A dust storm blew through Ir
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persian_tmo_2008183
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IMAGE |
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image |
| date |
2008-07-01 |
| creator |
NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
| identifier |
persian_tmo_2008183 |
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Dust over Gulf of Oman, Arab
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
A weather forecast for the U
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arabia_tmo_2008033
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IMAGE |
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image |
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2008-02-02 |
| creator |
NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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arabia_tmo_2008033 |
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Dust over the Persian Gulf:
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
Dust blew off the coast of t
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ge_19199
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IMAGE |
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image |
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2007-10-10 |
| creator |
NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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ge_19199 |
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Dust over the Persian Gulf:
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
Dust blew off the coast of t
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ge_19199
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IMAGE |
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image |
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2007-10-10 |
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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ge_19199 |
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Palm Islands, Dubai: Image o
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nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle
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Along the coast of Dubai --
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palmis_ast_2006261
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IMAGE |
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image |
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2006-09-18 |
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NASA -- NASA images courtesy of the NASA/GSFC/MITI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/ ASTER Science Team. |
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palmis_ast_2006261 |
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Dust Storm Over Persian Gulf
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
On May 14, 2004, the morning
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ge_13161
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IMAGE |
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image |
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2004-05-14 |
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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ge_13161 |
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Dust over Gulf of Oman, Arab
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nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle
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. * Struck, R. (2008, Februa
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ge_08466
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image |
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2008-01-31 |
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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ge_08466 |
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Dust Storm in the Persian Gu
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nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle
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On May 14, 2004, the morning
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PersianGulf.TMOA2004135
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IMAGE |
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image |
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2004-05-14 |
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NASA -- terra.nasa.gov Terra satellite image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA-GSFC |
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PersianGulf.TMOA2004135 |
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ASTER Dunes
PIA02656
Sol (our sun)
ASTER
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ASTER Dunes |
| Original Caption Released with Image |
This image of Saudi Arabia shows a great sea of linear dunes in part of the Rub' al Khali, or the Empty Quarter. Acquired on June 25, 2000, the image covers an area 37 kilometers (23 miles) wide and 28 kilometers (17 miles) long in three bands of the reflected visible and infrared wavelength region. The dunes are yellow due to the presence of iron oxide minerals. The inter-dune area is made up of clays and silt and appears blue due to its high reflectance in band 1. The Rub' al Khali is the world's largest continuous sand desert. It covers about 650,000 square kilometers (250,966 square miles) and lies mainly in southern Saudi Arabia, though it does extend into the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Yemen. One of the world's driest areas, it is uninhabited except for the Bedouin nomads who cross it. The first European to travel through the desert was Bertram Thomas in 1930. Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) is one of five Earth-observing instruments launched December 18, 1999, on NASA's Terra satellite. The instrument was built by Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry. A joint U.S./Japan science team is responsible for validation and calibration of the instrument and the data products. Dr. Anne Kahle at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, is the U.S. science team leader, Moshe Pniel of JPL is the project manager. ASTER is the only high-resolution imaging sensor on Terra. The primary goal of the ASTER mission is to obtain high-resolution image data in 14 channels over the entire land surface, as well as black and white stereo images. With revisit time of between 4 and 16 days, ASTER will provide the capability for repeat coverage of changing areas on Earth's surface. The broad spectral coverage and high spectral resolution of ASTER will provide scientists in numerous disciplines with critical information for surface mapping and monitoring dynamic conditions and temporal change. Examples of applications include monitoring glacial advances and retreats, potentially active volcanoes, thermal pollution, and coral reef degradation, identifying crop stress, determining cloud morphology and physical properties, evaluating wetlands, mapping surface temperature of soils and geology, and measuring surface heat balance. |
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