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Dust Storm over the Mediterr
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Dust Storm over the Mediterranean Sea |
| Description |
The Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) observed this large cloud of dust (brownish pixels) blowing from northern Africa across the Mediterranean Sea on March 4, 2002. The dust can be seen clearly blowing across Southern Italy, Albania, Greece, and Turkey?all along the Mediterranean?s northeastern shoreline. Notice that there also appears to be human-made aerosol pollution (greyish pixels) pooling in the air just south of the Italian Alps and blowing southeastward over the Adriatic Sea. The Alps can be easily identified as the crescent-shaped, snow-capped mountain range in the top center of this true-color scene. There also appears to be a similar haze over Austria, Hungary, and Yugoslavia to the north and east of Italy. SeaWiFS image courtesy the SeaWiFS Project, [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/redirect?http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEAWIFS.html ] NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE |
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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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Fires in the Balkans
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Fires in the Balkans |
| Description |
Scattered fires (red dots) were detected across the Balkans on March 26, 2003, by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite. Countries shown include Italy (left center edge), Greece (below center), and Turkey (right edge). At upper right is the Black Sea, at center is the Aegean Sea, at upper left is the Adriatic Sea, and at bottom left is the Mediterranean Sea. North of Turkey are Bulgaria and Romania. Moving clockwise from top left are Croatia, Yugoslavia, Macedonia, and Albania. The bounded area to the north of Albania is now part of Yugoslavia. North is Bosnia-Herzegovina. 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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Space Station Over the Ionia
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Space Station Over the Ionian Sea |
| Explanation |
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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Fires in Southern Europe: Na
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
While earthobservatory.nasa.
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albania_amo_2007241
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IMAGE |
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image |
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2007-08-29 |
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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albania_amo_2007241 |
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Early Spring Dust over the M
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nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle
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The Sea-viewing Wide Field-o
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MedDust_S2002063
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IMAGE |
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image |
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2002-03-04 |
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NASA -- Image courtesy the seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEAWIFS.html SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE |
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MedDust_S2002063 |
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Fires in the Balkans: Natura
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
Scattered fires (red dots) w
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Greece.TMOA2003085
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IMAGE |
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image |
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2003-03-26 |
| creator |
NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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Greece.TMOA2003085 |
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International Space Station
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nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle
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The crew of the Space Shuttl
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STS118-E-9469
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IMAGE |
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image |
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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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STS118-E-9469 |
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STS-118 Shuttle Mission Imagery |
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