The fire map bellow accumulates the locations of the fires detected by MODIS on board the Terra and Aqua satellites over a 10-day period, from June 20 – June 29, 2013. Each colored dot indicates a location where MODIS detected at least one fire during
This fire map bellow accumulates the locations of the fires detected by MODIS on board the Terra and Aqua satellites over a 10-day period, from June 10 – June 19, 2013. Each colored dot indicates a location where MODIS detected at least one fire during the
Massive wildfires in US and Canada produced smoke plumes that drifted over the Atlantic Ocean and reached Europe in late June 2013. MODIS satellite imagery shows smoke plumes hovering over Spain and the western Mediterranean Sea on June 26-27,
Rotating 3D-model of the Earth with highly exaggerated topography. Made with LightWave.
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Although 75% of the planet is a relatively unchanging ocean of blue, the remaining 25% of Earth's surface is a dynamic green. NASA/NOAA Suomi NPP satellite is able to detect these subtle differences in greenness. Those resources highlight our ever-changing
For the past week, forecast models showed unstable conditions that could lead to significant severe weather events. NOAA put the GOES-14 satellite in Super Rapid Scan Operations mode on June 12 and 13, 2013 to monitor the ongoing severe bow echo/low-end
NOAA's GOES East satellite has captured imagery of the storms development in Gulf of Mexico in period from June 4-6, 2013.
Source: VFS
Featured image: Visible satellite image of TS Andrea by GOES East at 13:15 UTC on June 5,
GOES-13, an American weather satellite, which forms part of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) system, is currently non-operational due to an
While the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) flew over Indonesia’s Flores Sea on April 29, 2013, the satellite’s Operational Land Imager (OLI) took a natural-color photo of Paluweh volcano pluming ash.The Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) on LDCM got an
Situated in the Aleutian Arc about 625 miles (1,000 kilometers) southwest of Anchorage, Alaska, Pavlof volcano began erupting on May 13, 2013 and Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) changed its volcanic alert level from Advisory to Watch and aviation color dode from
