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Bushfires Raging in Southeas
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Bushfires Raging in Southeast Australia |
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This true-color Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image from the Aqua satellite shows multiple large bushfires in southeast Australia on January 12, 2003. Fires are marked with red. This concentration of fires is located in the Great Dividing Range Mountains at the border of New South Wales (north) and Victoria (south). The northernmost fires are burning in the Kosciuszko National Park in southern New South Wales. Gusty winds and high temperatures have hampered containment efforts, and the smoke is beginning to pose a health hazard. Across the Bass Strait, a large fire is burning on Flinders Island. Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC |
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Bushfires Raging in Southeas
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Bushfires Raging in Southeast Australia |
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This true-color Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image shows bushfires (red dots) raging in southeast Australia on January 13, 2003. The fires are heavily concentrated along the border of New South Wales in the north and Victoria in the south. Across the Bass Strait from the mainland (see high-resolution image), a large fire is burning on Flinders Island. Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC |
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Bushfires Raging in Southeas
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Bushfires Raging in Southeast Australia |
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On February 2, 2003, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite detected fires (red dots) still burning in southeast Australia. A shroud of smoke hangs over Victoria and stretches out over the Bass Strait. These fires have been burning for about one month. Image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC |
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Bushfires Raging in Southeas
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Bushfires Raging in Southeast Australia |
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The bushfires in southeast Australia are still burning out of control, and news reports indicate only substantial rainfall will extinguish them. On February 3, 2003, a smoke warning was issued for Melbourne and related areas, and this Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) image from Feb. 3 shows why. A large plume of smoke blankets the southeastern part of New South Wales and northeastern Victoria. The plume stretches out over Bass Strait toward Tasmania. To date, the fires have burned more than 2 million acres. 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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Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
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Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race |
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Australians celebrate December 26 (a national holiday called Boxing Day) in a number of ways. One is the annual start to one of the sailing world's premier events: the Sydney to Hobart yacht race. Unlike many other major sailing events, the race is not restricted to a single class of sailing vessel, leading to a complex handicap system under which boats of different sizes are scored differently. The most highly sought after prize is line honours for being the first across the finish line in Hobart's Derwent River. Another prize is awarded for being the fastest boat based on the calculated handicaps for different boat classes. It is an exciting and potentially dangerous race, traversing 627 nautical miles from start to finish, including the crossing of the often treacherous waters of Bass Strait. Foul weather provides strong winds that sometimes help sailors set new speed records, but can also overwhelm sailing vessels, leaving them in need of rescue. In 1998, for example, strong winds resulted in new record times for the race with boats that took line honours and those placing close behind, but strengthening storm winds in Bass Strait caused many boats behind those leaders to founder and six sailors died despite a major rescue effort. Since then, rules for safety gear, qualifications, and liability have tightened a great deal. The 2003 event was quite unlike 1998. Weather conditions were much calmer and old records were not broken, though water eddies off Flinders and Eden Islands in Bass Strait gave some savvy skippers a significant boost. There was also considerable well-deserved excitement about the presence of two 30-meter (98-foot) boats, "Skandia" and "Zana", the largest boats ever entered in this race and correctly figured to be lead contenders for line honours. The event, however, is not just a race of large boats: of the 57 vessels in the 2003 race, about one third were in the small 12-meter (40-foot) class. This MODIS scene was acquired by the Terra satellite approximately 30 hours after "Skandia" took line honours with a racing time of two days, fifteen hours, fourteen minutes, and six seconds, "Zana" was just fourteen minutes behind. While well beyond the reach of MODIS's 250-meter per pixel maximum resolution, this scene does include much of the racing fleet behind the front runners still sailing across Bass Strait towards the finishing line. Image created from data provided by the MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC |
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Fires in Victoria, Australia
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Fires in Victoria, Australia |
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Between Lake Eildon and the Dartmouth Reservoir in Victoria, Australia, dozens of active fires churned out thick clouds of smoke in early December. In remote, rugged terrain in the Great Dividing Range Mountains, firefighters battled the blazes in hot, windy conditions. This image of the area was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov ] satellite on December 10, 2006. Places where MODIS detected actively burning fire are marked with red outlines. The smoke pours southeast over the Bass Strait. Puffy towers of clouds are embedded in the smoke, these clouds may be the result of strong updrafts and aerosols (particles in the air that can act as "seeds" for cloud droplets) produced by the fires themselves, or they may be part of the larger-scale weather pattern over the area. The next day, [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/fas/?SEAustralia3/2006345 ] a swath of clouds over the region may have provided some relief for firefighters. The large image provided above has a spatial resolution (level of detail) of 250 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response Team provides twice-daily [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/fas/?SEAustralia3/ ] images of the region in additional resolutions. A 250-meter-resolution KMZ file [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/Archive/Dec2006/Australia.A2006344.0345.250m.kmz ] is available for use with Google Earth. NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team, [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] Goddard Space Flight Center |
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Bushfires Raging in Southeas
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
The bushfires in southeast A
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Australia_OSE2003034
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Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race:
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
Australians celebrate Decemb
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Bushfires Raging in Southeas
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
On February 2, 2003, the mod
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Bushfires Raging in Southeas
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Fires in Victoria, Australia
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Between Lake Eildon and the
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Bushfires Raging in Southeas
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