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Haze along the Himalaya Fron
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| Title |
Haze along the Himalaya Front Range |
| Description |
A film of haze hangs over northern India along the dark green curve of the Himalaya Mountains in this Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) image, taken on November 10, 2004, by NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite. The haze is probably being caused by widespread agricultural fires [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=12558 ] burning along the mountain front. The fires have been marked with small red dots. Urban pollution and industry may also have contributed to the pollution. This pattern of haze is common in India and Nepal because the southern air mass cannot pass over the barrier formed by the Himalaya. The mountains also seem to be blocking clouds from moving from China, top right, to India and Pakistan, lower left. China is cloudy, but the areas southwest of the mountains are mostly clear. NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained from the MODIS Rapid Response team. |
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Monsoon Rains Flood East Asi
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Monsoon Rains Flood East Asia |
| Description |
The summer rainy season brought on by the summer monsoon has arrived over eastern Asia bringing with it seasonal flooding and torrential rains. Over the past few weeks, parts of Nepal, India and Bangladesh have been devastated by floods, but areas farther north have received their share of heavy rain too. China, Korea, and Japan have all suffered casualties recently as a result of flooding brought on by torrential rains. Over the past week, at least 17 people were lost due to flooding and mudslides in Japan. The situation is even worse in China as the death tolls have climbed into the hundreds so far this year. Hardest hit are southern, central and, more recently, eastern China particularly along the Huai River, which is at its highest level in over a decade. In November of 1997, the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission [ http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] (TRMM) satellite was launched in an effort to provide better estimates of rainfall over the global Tropics. Since that time, TRMM has been providing unprecedented estimates of rainfall over the Tropics using its array of passive and active sensors. TRMM can cover vast areas of the Tropics where rainfall is poorly measured such as over oceans and land areas where radar coverage is poor or lacking. The TRMM-based, near-real time Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (MPA) at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center provides rainfall estimates over the global Tropics. MPA rainfall totals for July 12 through July 19, 2004, are shown for East Asia. A swath of 4 to 8 inch rainfall (green area) extends from central China across the Yellow Sea, South Korea, and the Sea of Japan and into central Japan. The highest totals are over eastern China in the Shandong, Henan, Anhui, and Jiangsu provinces where between 12 and 20 inches (red area) of rain fell. Localized areas of over a foot of rain appear along parts of the southern and eastern coast of South Korea and over central Japan along the east coast of Honshu. TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency JAXA. Image produced by Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC) and caption by Steve Lang (SSAI/NASA GSFC). |
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Monsoon Rains Flood East Asi
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| Title |
Monsoon Rains Flood East Asia |
| Description |
The summer rainy season brought on by the summer monsoon has arrived over eastern Asia bringing with it seasonal flooding and torrential rains. Over the past few weeks, parts of Nepal, India and Bangladesh have been devastated by floods, but areas farther north have received their share of heavy rain too. China, Korea, and Japan have all suffered casualties recently as a result of flooding brought on by torrential rains. Over the past week, at least 17 people were lost due to flooding and mudslides in Japan. The situation is even worse in China as the death tolls have climbed into the hundreds so far this year. Hardest hit are southern, central and, more recently, eastern China particularly along the Huai River, which is at its highest level in over a decade. In November of 1997, the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission [ http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/ ] (TRMM) satellite was launched in an effort to provide better estimates of rainfall over the global Tropics. Since that time, TRMM has been providing unprecedented estimates of rainfall over the Tropics using its array of passive and active sensors. TRMM can cover vast areas of the Tropics where rainfall is poorly measured such as over oceans and land areas where radar coverage is poor or lacking. The TRMM-based, near-real time Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (MPA) at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center provides rainfall estimates over the global Tropics. MPA rainfall totals for July 12 through July 19, 2004, are shown for East Asia. A swath of 4 to 8 inch rainfall (green area) extends from central China across the Yellow Sea, South Korea, and the Sea of Japan and into central Japan. The highest totals are over eastern China in the Shandong, Henan, Anhui, and Jiangsu provinces where between 12 and 20 inches (red area) of rain fell. Localized areas of over a foot of rain appear along parts of the southern and eastern coast of South Korea and over central Japan along the east coast of Honshu. TRMM is a joint mission between NASA and the Japanese space agency JAXA. Image produced by Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC) and caption by Steve Lang (SSAI/NASA GSFC). |
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Himalayan Horizon From Space
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Himalayan Horizon From Space |
| Explanation |
This stunning aerial view [ http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/viewrecord?7837 ] shows the rugged snow covered peaks of [ http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/education/Everest/ ] a Himalayan mountain range in Nepal. The seventh-highest peak on the planet [ http://www.math.ufl.edu/~metzler/Frame/ Outdoor/Data/asia.html ], Dhaulagiri, is the high point on the horizon at the left while in the foreground lies the southern Tibetan Plateau of China. But, contrary to appearances, this picture wasn't taken from an airliner [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010129.html ] cruising at 30,000 feet. Instead it was taken with a 35mm camera and telephoto lens by the Expedition 1 crew [ http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/crew/exp1/ index.html ] aboard the International Space Station [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap011012.html ] -- orbiting 200 nautical miles [ http://www.seewise.com/or/faqtxt/a3.html ] above the Earth. The Himalayan mountains [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/ images.php3?img_id=4704 ] were created by crustal plate tectonics [ http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/ dynamic.html ] on planet Earth [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap001002.html ] some 70 million years ago, as the Indian plate began a collision with the Eurasian plate. Himalayan uplift still continues today at a rate of a few millimeters per year. |
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Himalayan Horizon From Space
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Himalayan Horizon From Space |
| Explanation |
This stunning aerial view [ http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/viewrecord?7837 ] shows the rugged snow covered peaks of [ http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/education/Everest/ ] a Himalayan mountain range in Nepal. The seventh-highest peak on the planet [ http://www.math.ufl.edu/~metzler/Frame/ Outdoor/Data/asia.html ], Dhaulagiri, is the high point on the horizon at the left while in the foreground lies the southern Tibetan Plateau of China. But, contrary to appearances, this picture wasn't taken from an airliner [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050513.html ] cruising at 30,000 feet. Instead it was taken with a 35mm camera and telephoto lens by the Expedition 1 crew [ http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/crew/exp1/ index.html ] aboard the International Space Station [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap011012.html ] -- orbiting 200 nautical miles [ http://www.onlineconversion.com/faq_07.htm ] above the Earth. The Himalayan mountains [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/ images.php3?img_id=4704 ] were created by crustal plate tectonics [ http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/ dynamic.html ] on planet Earth [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap001002.html ] some 70 million years ago, as the Indian plate began a collision with the Eurasian plate. Himalayan uplift still continues today at a rate of a few millimeters per year. |
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Dhaulagiri, Himalaya : Image
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nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle
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Dhaulagiri, seventh-highest
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ISS01E6765
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IMAGE |
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image |
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2001 |
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NASA -- Image eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS001&roll=E&frame=6765 ISS01-E-6765 was provided by the by the eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Laboratory, 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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ISS01E6765 |
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Monsoon Rains Flood East Asi
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nasa, nasaimageofthedaygalle
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* eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/ima
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Japan_TRMM2004201
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IMAGE |
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image |
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2004-07-19 |
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NASA -- Image produced by Hal Pierce (SSAI/NASA GSFC) and caption by Steve Lang (SSAI/NASA GSFC). |
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Japan_TRMM2004201 |
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Haze along the Himalaya Fron
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
A film of haze hangs over no
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aqua_himilaya_10nov04
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IMAGE |
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image |
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2004-11-10 |
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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aqua_himilaya_10nov04 |
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STS-99 Shuttle Mission Imagery |
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STS-87 Shuttle Mission Imagery |
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China, India, and Nepal as s
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China, India, and Nepal as seen from Gemini 11 |
| Description |
China, India, and Nepal, looking east, as seen from the Gemini 11 spacecraft during its 37th revolution of the earth. Great Himalaya Mountain Range is clearly visible. |
| Date Taken |
1966-09-14 |
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Mount Everest as seen from S
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Mount Everest as seen from STS-58 |
| Description |
The best, nearly cloud-free Shuttle view yet of Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world at 29,028 feet. The peak, on the border between Nepal and China, is almost exactly in the center of the photograph. The challenging North Face is in shadow, valley glaciers radiate in all directions from the central massif. |
| Date Taken |
1993-10-30 |
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Mt. Everest as seen from STS
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Mt. Everest as seen from STS-66 shuttle Atlantis |
| Description |
Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world at 8,858 meters, was photographed by the STS-66 crew members aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis from 165 nautical miles above the Earth. Also seen are Cho Oyu (8,153 meters) northwest of Everest, and other peaks in what has been calle the "Roof of the World". Abundant details of glacier surfaces, including moraines, crevasse fields and ice falls are displayed for study. |
| Date Taken |
1994-11-14 |
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Himalayas as seen from STS-6
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Himalayas as seen from STS-66 shuttle Atlantis |
| Description |
View is southeastward across China (Tibet), half of Nepal and India. The partly frozen lake near the center of the frame is Pei-Ku T'so ("Bos-tie Lake"). The central Himalaya stretches from Mount Everest on the left past Annapurna on the right. Large tributaries converge to form the Ganges River, flowing through the lowland basin south of the Himalaya. This photograph illustrates the rain shadow effect of the Himalaya Chain, wet, warm air from the Indian Ocean is driven against the mountains, lifted, and drained of water that forms ice caps, the abundant rivers, and forests of the foothills. In contrast the high plateau of Tibet is arid, composed largely of topographically-closed basins because stream flow is inadequate to form integrated drainage networks. |
| Date Taken |
1994-11-14 |
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Mount Everest region as seen
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Mount Everest region as seen from the STS-66 orbiter Atlantis |
| Description |
View of the Mount Everst region, Nepal and China. Low morning sun highlights Mount Everest (the highest mountain in the world at 8,848 meters), Cho Oyu (8,153 meters) to the northwest, and other peaks of "The Roof of the World". New snow seems to be confined to the highest peaks. Abundant details of glacier surfaces, including moraines, crevasse fields, and ice falls are displayed for study. |
| Date Taken |
1994-11-14 |
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Roof of the World" Tibetan P
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| Title |
Roof of the World" Tibetan Plateau of China as seen from STS-67 |
| Description |
Two major physiographic features are very much in evidence in this photograph. First, a small segment of the very rugged Himalayan Mountains is observed in the foreground. This virtually cloud-free color photograph (general direction of view is northerly) shows part of the snow-covered northwest by southeast trending Himalayas. Several glaciers radiate to the north from the northernmost regions of the Himalayas. A fairly extensive, largely snow-covered intermontane valley is also evident across the center section of the photograph. The Gangdise Mountains, another northwest by southeast trending range, forms the northern boundary of the broad valley. Several major ice and snow-covered identifiable lakes are seen on the Tibetan Plateau of China. This photograph show why this region is called the "Roof of the World". |
| Date Taken |
1995-03-14 |
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