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Calm before the Dust Storm
| Title |
Calm before the Dust Storm |
| Description |
On February 3, 2004, a large dust storm swept westward off the coast of northwest Africa and, for the last two days has been fanning out to the north and west over a large portion of the eastern Atlantic Ocean. This true-color image was acquired on February 6 by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA?s Terra satellite. The scene shows the West African coastline from Morocco (upper right) to Guinea Bissau (lower right). Streamers of Saharan Desert dust (tan pixels) continue to blow out from Morocco toward the Canary Islands, while the Cape Verde Islands to the south (bottom center) appear to have taken the full brunt of the dust storm. As it moved westward, the dust appears to have become entrained into a strong southerly air current, creating a vast arc of dust stretching more than 2,000 km. Notice the ?wind shadow? extending northwestward from the Cape Verde Islands. The islands formed a break against the wind, creating a clear pocket of air behind them that is itself being pulled and carried northward with the strong southerly wind. This image is also available in additional resolutions. Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] at NASA GSFC |
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Forest Fires in Portugal
| Title |
Forest Fires in Portugal |
| Description |
Portugal?s severe fire season isn?t over yet, with new blazes breaking out across the country at the end of the second week of September. With temperatures near 100 degrees F for several days, firefighters face a difficult challenge, particularly in the southern coastal region of Algarve, a popular tourist destination. In this Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image from September 12, 2003, a large fire was detected and is marked with red at the southwest tip of the country. A long smoke plume trails over the Atlantic from the blaze. Meanwhile, a dust storm is bringing a cloud of dust and sand northward over Morocco and the Atlantic Ocean. 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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Forest Fires in Portugal
| Title |
Forest Fires in Portugal |
| Description |
A huge plume of smoke drifts westward over the Atlantic Ocean from a massive forest fire in southwestern Portugal in this Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image from the Aqua satellite. The active fire locations have been enhanced in yellow. This image was acquired on September 13, 2003. 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 Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC |
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Dust and Smoke over Eastern
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| Title |
Dust and Smoke over Eastern Atlantic |
| Description |
Saharan Desert dust (tan pixels) was spreading northwestward over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Morocco on September 13, 2003. In this scene, the Canary Islands are visible in the lower left corner while the western tip of the Iberian Peninsula can be seen in the upper right. A thick plume of gray smoke is streaming westward from a large forest fire [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=11702 ] that has been burning in Portugal for the last week. This true-color image was acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), aboard NASA's Aqua satellite. 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 Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC |
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Dust and Smoke over Eastern
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| Title |
Dust and Smoke over Eastern Atlantic |
| Description |
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), aboard NASA's Aqua satellite, capture this true-color image of Saharan Desert dust blowing southwestward off the coasts of Morocco and Mauritania in West Africa. The light brown plume can be seen wending its way over the Cape Verde Islands in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean. This true-color image was acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), aboard NASA's Aqua satellite. 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 Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC |
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Dust off Morocco
| Title |
Dust off Morocco |
| Description |
Thick streams of tan dust blow northward off the shores of Morocco into the Atlantic Ocean. West of the dust storm are the Canary Islands. The dust appears to have originated in the Western Sahara, left of the dark brown wrinkle the Atlas Mountains form in the otherwise tan landscape. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] (MODIS) instrument on the Terra [ http://terra.nasa.gov/ ] satellite captured this true-color image on November 4, 2003. The high resolution image provided above is at 500 meters per pixel. The image is also available at MODIS? maximum spatial resolution of 250 meters per pixel. Image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC |
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Dust Storm off Morocco
| Title |
Dust Storm off Morocco |
| Description |
This false-color image reveals a large plume of African desert dust blowing westward over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Morocco. The tan color of the dust makes it easy to distinguish from the purplish-white color of clouds in the region. In this scene, the plume spans all the way from the Strait of Gibraltar (upper right) to well past the Canary Islands (lower left). The high-resolution image available here is 500 meters per pixel. Copies of this scene at other resolutions are also available. Image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC |
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Dust Storm over Morocco
| Title |
Dust Storm over Morocco |
| Description |
A plume of Saharan Desert dust (light brown pattern) can be seen blowing over Morocco and fanning out in a wide swath over the eastern Atlantic Ocean in this April 7, 2003, image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), flying aboard NASA's Terra satellite. The Strait of Gibralter is situated in the upper righthand corner of this scene. The famous city of Casablanca sits on the Moroccan coast roughly 300 km southwest of the Strait. Part of Morocco's picturesque Atlas Mountains can be seen in the lower righthand corner, partially hidden by clouds. 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 Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC |
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Dust Storm over Morocco
| Title |
Dust Storm over Morocco |
| Description |
Some plumes of dust (brownish pixels) were visible to the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor (SeaWiFS) on December 22, 2002, blowing toward the northwest from Morocco. There are also many linear cloud features over the Iberian Peninsula and Atlantic Ocean in the center of this image that look like they might be airplane contrails. 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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Saharan Dust off West Africa
| Title |
Saharan Dust off West Africa |
| Description |
An intense African dust storm sent a massive dust plume northwestward over the Atlantic Ocean on March 2, 2003. In this true-color scene, acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA's Terra satellite, the thick dust plume (light brown) can be seen blowing westward and then routed northward by strong southerly winds. The plume extends more than 1,000 miles (1,600 km), covering a vast swath of ocean extending from the Cape Verde Islands (lower lef), off the coast of Senegal, to the Canary Islands (top center) off the coast of Morocco. 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, NASA GSFC |
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Fires in the Canary Islands
| Title |
Fires in the Canary Islands |
| Description |
Two large forest fires raged on the Canary Islands on the afternoon of July 30, 2007, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite captured this photo-like image. Clusters of red dots mark out the locations of the fires on the islands of Tenerife (left) and Gran Canaria (right). More than 2,000 people were evacuated from the fire on Gran Canaria, which had burned through 8,645 acres of woodland, reported the Associated Press on July 30. Thick plumes of smoke blow southwest over the Atlantic Ocean from the fires. The desert coast of Western Sahara and Morocco makes up the right edge of the image. A faint tan veil of dust hangs over the ocean near the coast. The large image provided above has a resolution of 250 meters per pixel. The image is available in additional resolutions [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2007211-0730/CanaryIslands.A2007211.1445 ] from the MODIS Rapid Response System. Image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC |
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Flooding in Morocco
| Title |
Flooding in Morocco |
| Description |
Unusually heavy rains hit Morocco in late November 2002, giving rise to floods that killed more than 60 people. The above false-color image (right) displays some of the worst of the flooding just north of the city of Rabat, located on Morocco?s coast. The image was acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument, flying aboard NASA?s Aqua spacecraft. Most of the casualties were due to flash flooding throughout the western half of Morocco. The water from the flash floods has drained into the now swollen riverbeds and lakebeds that appear as solid blue in the image. The floodwaters washed away loose sediment from the surrounding countryside and carried it to the Atlantic Ocean to form the sediment plumes that appear along the coast. Normally, hardly any standing water in Morocco is visible in MODIS imagery (left, acquired November 7, 2002). In these false color images land is green and tan, clouds are white and light blue, and water is dark blue and black. Image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC |
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Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocc
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nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle
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The Anti-Atlas Mountains of
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STS108-711-25
| mediatype |
IMAGE |
| mediatype |
image |
| date |
2002 |
| creator |
NASA -- eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=STS108&roll=711&frame=25 STS108-711-25 was taken in December, 2001 by the crew of Space Shuttle mission 108 using a Hasselblad camera with 250-mm lens. The image is provided by the Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory at Johnson Space Center. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA-JSC eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/ Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. |
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STS108-711-25 |
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Saharan Dust off West Africa
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nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle
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An intense African dust stor
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WAfrica_TMO2003061
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IMAGE |
| mediatype |
image |
| date |
2003-03-02 |
| creator |
NASA -- Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC |
| identifier |
WAfrica_TMO2003061 |
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Fires in the Canary Islands:
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
Two large forest fires raged
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ge_18794
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IMAGE |
| mediatype |
image |
| date |
2007-07-30 |
| creator |
NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
| identifier |
ge_18794 |
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Dust Storm off Western Sahar
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
Dust plumes blew off the coa
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nafricadust_tmo_2008020
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IMAGE |
| mediatype |
image |
| date |
2008-01-20 |
| creator |
NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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nafricadust_tmo_2008020 |
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Isla de la Palma, Canary Isl
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nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle
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The Canary Islands, a group
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ISS017-E-06820
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IMAGE |
| mediatype |
image |
| date |
? 5/13/2008 |
| creator |
NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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ISS017-E-06820 |
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Solitons, Strait of Gibralta
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nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle
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Surf's up! This image is a m
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ISS009-E-09952_54
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IMAGE |
| mediatype |
image |
| date |
1998 |
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NASA -- Astronaut photographs eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS009&roll=E&frame=9952 ISS009-E-9952 and eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS009&roll=E&frame=9954 ISS009-E-9954 were taken June 3, 2004 with a Kodak DCS760 digital camera equipped with a 180 mm lens, and are provided by the Earth Observations Laboratory, Johnson Space Center. The spaceflight.nasa.gov/ 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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ISS009-E-09952_54 |
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Forest Fires in Portugal: Na
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
Portugal's severe fire seaso
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Portugal.TMOA2003255
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IMAGE |
| mediatype |
image |
| date |
2003-09-12 |
| creator |
NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
| identifier |
Portugal.TMOA2003255 |
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Dust Storm over Morocco: Nat
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
A plume of Saharan Desert du
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Morocco_TMO2003097
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IMAGE |
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image |
| date |
2003-04-07 |
| creator |
NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
| identifier |
Morocco_TMO2003097 |
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Calm before the Dust Storm:
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
On February 3, 2004, a large
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WAfrica_TMO2004037
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IMAGE |
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image |
| date |
2004-02-06 |
| creator |
NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
| identifier |
WAfrica_TMO2004037 |
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The Strait of Gibraltar in 3
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nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle
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Pasadena, CA, for NASA's Ear
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Gibraltar_SRTM
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IMAGE |
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image |
| date |
2000-02-11 |
| creator |
NASA -- Image courtesy SRTM Team, NASA JPL |
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Gibraltar_SRTM |
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West Africa : Image of the D
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nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle
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With its vast expanses of sa
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west_africa
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IMAGE |
| mediatype |
image |
| date |
2001 |
| creator |
NASA -- Image by Reto Stöckli, Robert Simmon, and Brian Montgomery, NASA Earth Observatory, based on data from modarch.gsfc.nasa.gov/ MODIS |
| identifier |
west_africa |
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Flooding in Morocco: Image o
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nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle
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Unusually heavy rains hit Mo
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morocco.AMO2002330
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IMAGE |
| mediatype |
image |
| date |
11/07/02 |
| creator |
NASA -- Image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC |
| identifier |
morocco.AMO2002330 |
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Flooding in Morocco: Image o
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nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle
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Unusually heavy rains hit Mo
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morocco.AMO2002330
| mediatype |
IMAGE |
| mediatype |
image |
| date |
11/07/02 |
| creator |
NASA -- Image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC |
| identifier |
morocco.AMO2002330 |
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Dust and Smoke over Eastern
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
Saharan Desert dust (tan pix
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Morocco_AMO2003256
| mediatype |
IMAGE |
| mediatype |
image |
| date |
2003-09-13 |
| creator |
NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
| identifier |
Morocco_AMO2003256 |
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Where Europe meets Africa: I
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nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle
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This natural-color satellite
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PIA04376
| mediatype |
IMAGE |
| mediatype |
image |
| date |
2002 |
| creator |
NASA -- Image courtesy NASA/GSFC/LaRC/JPL, www-misr.jpl.nasa.gov/ MISR Team. Jim Knighton ( jknighton@clear-light.com jknighton@clear-light.com ) of Clear Light Image Products produced the image mosaic. Please note that the image shown here is at a pixel resolution of approximately 1.1 kilometers, but a more detailed version at a resolution of 278 meters is available from the producer. Text by Clare Averill (Raytheon ITSS / Jet Propulsion Laboratory). |
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PIA04376 |
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Anti-Atlas Mountains of Moro
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nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle
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Dagger-like ridgelines and f
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atlas_l7_2002078
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IMAGE |
| mediatype |
image |
| date |
2002-03-19 |
| creator |
NASA -- NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data provided by the University of Maryland's www.landcover.org/ Global Land Cover Facility. |
| identifier |
atlas_l7_2002078 |
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Dust Storm off Morocco: Imag
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nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle
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Dust plumes hundreds of kilo
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ge_08548
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IMAGE |
| mediatype |
image |
| date |
2008-02-10 |
| creator |
NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
| identifier |
ge_08548 |
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Dust Storm off Morocco: Imag
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nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle
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Dust plumes hundreds of kilo
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ge_08548
| mediatype |
IMAGE |
| mediatype |
image |
| date |
2008-02-10 |
| creator |
NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
| identifier |
ge_08548 |
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Dust Storm over Morocco: Nat
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
Some plumes of dust (brownis
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Africa_OSE200235613
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IMAGE |
| mediatype |
image |
| date |
2002-12-22 |
| creator |
NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
| identifier |
Africa_OSE200235613 |
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Dust and Smoke over Eastern
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
The Moderate Resolution Imag
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WestAfrica_AMO2003264
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IMAGE |
| mediatype |
image |
| date |
2003-09-21 |
| creator |
NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
| identifier |
WestAfrica_AMO2003264 |
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Morocco : Image of the Day
nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle
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This true-color image over M
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modis_morocco
| mediatype |
IMAGE |
| mediatype |
image |
| date |
2000-04-23 |
| creator |
NASA -- Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Group, NASA GSFC |
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modis_morocco |
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Strait of Gibraltar, Perspec
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PIA03397
Sol (our sun)
C-Band Interferometric Radar
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| Title |
Strait of Gibraltar, Perspective with Landsat Image Overlay |
| Original Caption Released with Image |
Pasadena, CA, for NASA's Earth Science Enterprise, Washington, DC. View Size: 46 kilometers (28 miles) wide, 106 kilometers (66 miles) distance Location: 36 degrees North latitude, 5.5 degrees West longitude Orientation: Looking East, 15 degrees down from horizontal, 3X vertical exaggeration Image Data: Landsat Bands 1, 2+4, 3 as blue, green, red respectively Original Data Resolution: 30 meters (99 feet) Date Acquired: February 2000 (SRTM), July 6, 1987 (Landsat), This perspective view shows the Strait of Gibraltar, which is the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean. Europe (Spain) is on the left. Africa (Morocco) is on the right. The Rock of Gibraltar, administered by Great Britain, is the peninsula in the back left. The Strait of Gibraltar is the only natural gap in the topographic barriers that separate the Mediterranean Sea from the world's oceans. The Sea is about 3700 kilometers (2300 miles) long and covers about 2.5 million square kilometers (one million square miles), while the Strait is only about 13 kilometers (8 miles) wide. Sediment samples from the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea that include evaporite minerals, soils, and fossil plants show that about five million years ago the Strait was topographically blocked and the Sea had evaporated into a deep basin far lower in elevation than the oceans. Consequent changes in the world's hydrologic cycle, including effects upon ocean salinity, likely led to more ice formation in polar regions and more reflection of sunlight back to space, resulting in a cooler global climate at that time. Today, topography plays a key role in our regional climate patterns. But through Earth history, topographic change, even perhaps over areas as small as 13 kilometers across, has also affected the global climate. This image was generated from a Landsat satellite image draped over an elevation model produced by the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). The view is eastward with a 3-times vertical exaggeration to enhance topographic expression. Natural colors of the scene (green vegetation, blue water, brown soil, white beaches) are enhanced by image processing, inclusion of some infrared reflectance (as green) to highlight the vegetation pattern, and inclusion of shading of the elevation model to further highlight the topographic features. Landsat has been providing visible and infrared views of the Earth since 1972. SRTM elevation data matches the 30-meter (99-feet) resolution of most Landsat images and will substantially help in analyses of the large Landsat image archive. Elevation data used in this image was acquired by the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour, launched on February 11, 2000. SRTM used the same radar instrument that comprised the Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR) that flew twice on the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1994. SRTM was designed to collect three-dimensional measurements of the Earth's surface. To collect the 3-D data, engineers added a 60-meter-long (200-foot) mast, installed additional C-band and X-band antennas, and improved tracking and navigation devices. The mission is a cooperative project between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), and the German and Italian space agencies. It is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, |
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SeaWinds Global Coverage wit
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PIA02455
Sol (our sun)
SeaWinds Scatterometer
| Title |
SeaWinds Global Coverage with Detail of Hurricane Floyd |
| Original Caption Released with Image |
The distribution of ocean surface winds over the Atlantic Ocean, based on September 1999 data from NASA's SeaWinds instrument on the QuikScat satellite, shows wind direction (white streamlines) at a resolution of 25 kilometers (15.5 miles), superimposed on the color image indicating wind speed. Over the ocean, the strong (seen in violet) trade winds blow steadily from the cooler subtropical oceans to warm waters just north of the equator. The air rises over these warm waters and sinks in the subtropics at the horse latitudes. Low wind speeds are indicated in blue. In the mid-latitudes, the high vorticity caused by the rotation of the Earth generates the spirals of weather systems. The North Atlantic is dominated by a high-pressure system, whose anti-cyclonic (clockwise) flow creates strong winds blowing parallel to the coast of Spain and Morocco. This creates strong ocean upwelling and cold temperature. Hurricane Floyd, with its high winds (yellow), is clearly visible west of the Bahamas. Tropical depression Gert is seen as it was forming in the tropical mid-Atlantic (as an anti-clockwise spiral), it later developed into a full-blown hurricane. Because the atmosphere is largely transparent to microwaves, SeaWinds is able to cover 93 percent of the global oceans, under both clear and cloudy conditions, in a single day, with the capability of a synoptic view of the ocean. The high resolution of the data also gives detailed description of small and intense weather systems, like Hurricane Floyd. The image in the insert is based on data specially produced at 12.5 kilometers (7.7 miles). In the insert, white arrows of wind vector are imposed on the color image of wind speed. The insert represents a 3-degree area occupied by Hurricane Floyd. After these data were acquired, Hurricane Floyd turned north. Its strength and proximity to the Atlantic coast of the U.S. caused the largest evacuation of citizens in U.S. history. Its landfall on September 16, 1999 resulted in severe flooding and devastation in the Carolinas. The high-resolution SeaWinds data provided an opportunity to monitor and study this hurricane. NASA's Earth Science Enterprise is a long-term research and technology program designed to examine Earth's land, oceans, atmosphere, ice and life as a total integrated system. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. |
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| General Description |
International Space Station Imagery |
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Both sides of the Atlantic O
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| Title |
Both sides of the Atlantic Ocean are visible from Apollo 8 spacecraft |
| Description |
Both sides of the Atlantic Ocean are visible in this view from the Apollo 8 spacecraft. The large, most prominent, land mass is the bulge of west Africa. The portion of Africa near the equator is dark and cloudy, but the more northerly portions are clear, showing the prominent cape at Dakar and the Senegal River in Senegal, Cap Blanc, the Adrar Plateau in Mauritania, the wide expanse of desert in Algeria and Spanish Sahara, and at the far edge, the Atlas and Anti-Atlas Mountains in Morocco. Clouds cover the eastern coast of South America, southward from Surinam and Guyana to near the City of Salvador, Brazil. This view was taken after tranlunar insertion. |
| Date Taken |
1968-12-22 |
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Gibraltar, Spain, Portugal,
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| Title |
Gibraltar, Spain, Portugal, Morocco and Atlantic Ocean as seen from Gemini 10 |
| Description |
Venezuela, British Guyana, Surinam, and Trindad, as seen from the Gemini 10 spacecraft. On left is mouth of Orinoco River in Venezuela. Mouth of Essequibo River in British Guyana is in right center. |
| Date Taken |
1966-07-18 |
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Strait of Gibraltar
| Title |
Strait of Gibraltar |
| Description |
The Strait of Gibraltar as seen from the south (36.0N, 5.5W). This scene shows the actual Rock of Gibraltar under cloud cover but most of the Strait of Gibraltar, at the mouth of the Mediterranaen Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, can be seen in good detail. Despite the obliquity of the scene, much of the beauty of the Spanish and Moroccan countryside can still be appreciated. |
| Date Taken |
1982-03-30 |
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Morocco and border of spain
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| Title |
Morocco and border of spain as seen from STS-59 |
| Description |
The Atlantic Ocean, Straits of Gibraltar, and Alboran Sea (the westernmost portion of the Mediterranean Sea) separate Spain on the left from Morocco on the right. Algeciras Harbor is the prominent notch cut out of the eastern end of the north shore of the Strait, the Rock of Gibraltar is the tiny arrowhead that separates the notch from the Alboran Sea. The Sierra Nevada, farther away down the Spanish coast, lives up to its name in this April scene. The difference in elevation between the Sierra Morena and the Guadalquivir River valley is highlighted nicely by cumulus clouds. Tangier, Morocco can be seen as a light-toned spot on the southern shore of the Strait, near the entrance to the Atlantic Ocean. |
| Date Taken |
1994-04-14 |
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Strait of Gibraltar seen fro
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| Title |
Strait of Gibraltar seen from STS-66 |
| Description |
Swift currents flow through the Strait of Gibraltar, producing complicated patterns in the surface waters. Some of those patterns are highlighted in the sunglint in this photograph. The Mediterranian Sea is on the upper right, the Atlantic Ocean in in the lower left. Few features can be seen on the Mediterranian side, but current shears (straight lines coming off Spain), several sets of internal waves (impinging on the Spanish continental shelf) and ship wakes can be seen on the Atlantic side, west of Cadiz. Both Tangier and Cadiz show up in the sunglint as well. |
| Date Taken |
1994-11-14 |
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