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Hurricane Frances

Title	Hurricane Frances
Description	The MODIS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured this true-color image of Hurricane Frances on August 31, 2004 at 17:55 UTC (1:55 PM EDT). At the time this image was taken Frances was located approximately 230 km (140 miles) north-northeast of San Juan, Puerto Rico and was moving towards the west near 26 km/hr (16 mph). Maximum sustained winds were near 225 km/hr (140 mph) and the storm's minimum central pressure was down to 942 millibars. The MODIS Rapid Response System provides this image at additional resolutions and formats. NASA image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC.

Hurricane Frances

Title	Hurricane Frances
Description	The MODIS instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite captured this true-color image of Hurricane Frances swirling above the waters of the tropical Atlantic Ocean on August 31 at 14:45 UTC (10:45 AM EDT). At the time this image was taken Frances was located approximately 285 km (175 miles) northeast of San Juan, Puerto Rico and was moving towards the west at 24 km/hr (15 mph). Maximum sustained winds were near 215 km/hr (135 mph) with a minimum central pressure of 950 mb. This makes Frances a Category 4 storm on the Saffir/Simpson Scale. The MODIS Rapid Response System provides this image at additional resolutions and formats. NASA image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC.

Rocky Mountain Fires

Title	Rocky Mountain Fires
Description	The Missionary Ridge Fire, 10 miles north of Durango, Colorado, has been burning since June 9. By July 4, 2002 the fire had consumed almost 73,000 acres in the San Juan National Forest, and destroyed 56 homes. At that time the blaze was 55 percent contained, but still threatened several subdivisions. This Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) image combines daytime and nighttime images acquired on June 30, 2002. The simulated natural color daytime image shows burned areas in dark blue and healthy vegetation in green. The red areas are active fires and hot areas captured during the nighttime data acquisition using ASTER?s thermal infrared channels. The right side of the image was only captured at night. The image covers an area of 40 x 38 km (25 x 24 miles). More news about current wildfires in the United States is available from the National Fire Information Center. [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/redirect?http://www.nifc.gov/ ] Image courtesy NASA/GSFC/MITI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/redirect?http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/ ]

Flooding in Southern Mexico

Title	Flooding in Southern Mexico
Description	Already saturated from a heavier-than-normal summer monsoon season, rivers and reservoirs along Mexico?s Gulf coast swelled to overflowing in the wake of Tropical Storm Larry. The storm came ashore on October 5, 2003 and moved slowly across the Yucatan peninsula dumping as much as 20 inches of rain in coastal areas and 4-10 inches in the interior. See Tropical Depression Larry [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=11759 ] for rainfall totals between September 30 and October 7, 2003. Clouds, light blue in this false color image, still lingered over the southern regions of Mexico?s Veracruz state on October 8, 2003 (top). Standing water appears dark blue and black, while vegetation is bright green. Bare earth is light pinkish tan. Running from the coast southwest across the peninsula, the San Juan River is most noticeably flooded in the top image. The Miguel Aleman Reservoir, center left, also appears to be much fuller that it was on May 5, 2003 (bottom). Both of these false-color images were taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] (MODIS) sensor on the Terra satellite. The high-resolution image provided above is at MODIS? maximum spatial resolution of 250 meters per pixel. Image courtesy Jesse Allen, based on data from the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC

Flooding in Southern Mexico

Title	Flooding in Southern Mexico
Description	Already saturated from a heavier-than-normal summer monsoon season, rivers and reservoirs along Mexico?s Gulf coast swelled to overflowing in the wake of Tropical Storm Larry. The storm came ashore on October 5, 2003 and moved slowly across the Yucatan peninsula dumping as much as 20 inches of rain in coastal areas and 4-10 inches in the interior. See Tropical Depression Larry [ http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=11759 ] for rainfall totals between September 30 and October 7, 2003. Clouds, light blue in this false color image, still lingered over the southern regions of Mexico?s Veracruz state on October 8, 2003 (top). Standing water appears dark blue and black, while vegetation is bright green. Bare earth is light pinkish tan. Running from the coast southwest across the peninsula, the San Juan River is most noticeably flooded in the top image. The Miguel Aleman Reservoir, center left, also appears to be much fuller that it was on May 5, 2003 (bottom). Both of these false-color images were taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ] (MODIS) sensor on the Terra satellite. The high-resolution image provided above is at MODIS? maximum spatial resolution of 250 meters per pixel. Image courtesy Jesse Allen, based on data from the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC

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