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Floods in Myanmar (Burma)
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Floods in Myanmar (Burma) |
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With winds near 210 kilometers per hour (130 miles per hour), powerful Cyclone Mala [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=13533 ] swept ashore over Myanmar (Burma) late on April 28, 2006. The storm inundated the Southeast Asian country with heavy rain and left widespread flooding in its wake. The wetlands surrounding the mouths of the Ayeyarwady (Irrawaddy) River were still dark blue and black with water when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite captured the top image on the afternoon of April 30. Just a week earlier (lower image), the region had been dry, with water confined to the channels cut by the river as it drains into the Andaman Sea. The land is tan, with patches of green where plants are growing. Light clouds, blue and white in the false-color images, drift over the region. On April 30, the wetlands brimmed with water brought by the storm. Offshore, the ocean is milky blue and green where sediment carried by draining flood water has washed into the sea. Additional flooding can be seen farther north along the Ayeyarwady in the large image. According to the Myanmar state media, one person died and 21 others were injured in the storm. The large images provided above have a resolution of 250 meters per pixel, MODIS' maximum resolution. The MODIS Rapid Response Team provides daily images [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?FAS_Myanmar/2006120 ] of Myanmar in several resolutions. NASA images courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC. |
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Floods in Myanmar (Burma)
| Title |
Floods in Myanmar (Burma) |
| Description |
With winds near 210 kilometers per hour (130 miles per hour), powerful Cyclone Mala [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=13533 ] swept ashore over Myanmar (Burma) late on April 28, 2006. The storm inundated the Southeast Asian country with heavy rain and left widespread flooding in its wake. The wetlands surrounding the mouths of the Ayeyarwady (Irrawaddy) River were still dark blue and black with water when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite captured the top image on the afternoon of April 30. Just a week earlier (lower image), the region had been dry, with water confined to the channels cut by the river as it drains into the Andaman Sea. The land is tan, with patches of green where plants are growing. Light clouds, blue and white in the false-color images, drift over the region. On April 30, the wetlands brimmed with water brought by the storm. Offshore, the ocean is milky blue and green where sediment carried by draining flood water has washed into the sea. Additional flooding can be seen farther north along the Ayeyarwady in the large image. According to the Myanmar state media, one person died and 21 others were injured in the storm. The large images provided above have a resolution of 250 meters per pixel, MODIS' maximum resolution. The MODIS Rapid Response Team provides daily images [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?FAS_Myanmar/2006120 ] of Myanmar in several resolutions. NASA images courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC. |
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Barren Island Volcano
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Barren Island Volcano |
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The Barren Island Volcano sent a plume of volcanic ash and steam toward the northeast over the Andaman Sea on April 5, 2006. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] flying onboard the Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite took this picture the same day. This image shows Barren Island at Aqua's full 250-meter resolution, available on the MODIS Rapid Response [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2006095-0405/BarrenIsland.A2006095.0720 ] site. In this image, the volcanic plume dissipates as it moves away from the tiny island. The white dots southwest of the volcano are clouds. The red outline around the volcano's summit is a thermal anomaly, showing where the satellite sensor picked up especially warm surface temperatures. Just three kilometers wide, with a two-kilometer-wide caldera, Barren Island is the summit of a volcano that rises about 2,250 meters from the sea floor, poking 354 meters above the water line. About 135 kilometers northeast of Port Blair in the Andaman Islands, the volcanic island is uninhabited. It is the only historically active volcano in the north-south volcanic arc between Sumatra and Myanmar (Burma). In mid-March 2006, news reports assured India's citizens that the volcano's activity in early 2006 was no cause for alarm as seismologists surmised that it did not indicate an increased risk of earthquakes. NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ]Goddard Space Flight Center |
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Barren Island Volcano: Natur
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The Barren Island Volcano se
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barren_amo_2006095
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2006-04-05 |
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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barren_amo_2006095 |
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Floods in Myanmar (Burma): I
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With winds near 210 kilomete
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Myanmar_AMO_2006120
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2006-04-30 |
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NASA -- NASA images courtesy the rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. |
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Myanmar_AMO_2006120 |
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