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Provided by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE
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Fires near Great Bear Lake are still sending large smoke plumes northward and then eastward into Nunavut. The large landmass in the upper left quadrant of the SeaWiFS image is Victoria Island. Sensor: OrbView-2/SeaWiFS. Data Start Date: 7/19/00.
Topic: Where -- Victoria
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=712
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Oct 30, 2009
10/09
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Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
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This pair of true-color images from NASA’s <a HREF="http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov" target="outlink">Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer</a> (MODIS) show the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica. The Ross Ice Shelf straddles the 180 degree longitude line. The imagse from November 11 and 12, 2001, show a bit of Victoria Land at image left, including the TransAntarctic Mountains. A rectangular ice berg is anchored near Ross Island. At center and...
Topic: Where -- Victoria
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=3848
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Nov 4, 2009
11/09
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Image courtesy Jesse Allen, based on data from the at NASA GSFC
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North of Lake Victoria (bottom left) scores of fires were burning in eastern Africa on April 9, 2003. The fires were detected by the <a HREF="http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov" target="outlink">Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer</a> (MODIS) on the <a HREF="http://terra.nasa.gov/" target="outlink">Terra</a> satellite and are marked with red dots in this true-color image. Sensor: Terra/MODIS.
Topic: Where -- Victoria
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=18476
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Oct 30, 2009
10/09
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Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
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This pair of true-color images from NASA’s <a HREF="http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov" target="outlink">Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer</a> (MODIS) show the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica. The Ross Ice Shelf straddles the 180 degree longitude line. The imagse from November 11 and 12, 2001, show a bit of Victoria Land at image left, including the TransAntarctic Mountains. A rectangular ice berg is anchored near Ross Island. At center and...
Topic: Where -- Victoria
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=3849
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Oct 30, 2009
10/09
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Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
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North of Lake Victoria in eastern Africa fires (red dots) were scattered across the savanna, and were detected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite on February 2, 2003. Sensor: Terra/MODIS. Data Start Date: 2/4/03. Data End Date: 2/4/03.
Topics: What -- Terra, Where -- Victoria
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=4958
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Oct 30, 2009
10/09
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Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
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A break in the weather has given firefighters in southeast Australia a much-needed hand as January winds to a close. After weeks of battling scores of fires in the remote and often inaccessible terrain of the Great Dividing Range Mountains of southeastern New South Wales and northeastern Victoria, firefighters were handed a little rain, calmer winds, and a drop in temperatures.More than a million acres of have been scorched by the blazes, and true-color <a...
Topics: Where -- Australia, Where -- Victoria
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=4879
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Oct 30, 2009
10/09
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Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
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Bushfires in southeast Australia are still burning out of control, threatening farmland, livestock, and homes in Victoria and New South Wales, Australia. More than 500 homes have been destroyed, and several towns have fires within one or two kilometers of the city limits. Erratic winds push the fires, some of which have been burning for weeks, one way and then another, frustrating and exhausting the hundreds of firefighters battling the blazes. This <a...
Topics: Where -- Australia, Where -- Victoria
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=4488
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Oct 30, 2009
10/09
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Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, at NASA GSFC
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North of Lake Victoria in eastern Africa fires (red dots) were scattered across the savanna, and were detected by the <a HREF="http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov">Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer</a> (MODIS) on the Terra satellite on February 2, 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 <a...
Topics: What -- Terra, Where -- Victoria
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=5028
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Oct 14, 2009
10/09
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NASA
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Space Radar Image of Victoria, Canada
Topics: Where -- Victoria, Where -- Canada
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01830
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Oct 30, 2009
10/09
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Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
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According to news reports, the fire situation in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia, is grave. Hot temperatures and winds gusting up to 70 kilometers (43 miles) per hour have kept bushfires burning out of control in southeastern New South Wales and northeastern Victoria. The fire situation may be the worst the area has experienced in more than 50 years, and in Victoria, government officials are making plans to call up the army for firefighting assistance. Smoke continues to pour from the...
Topics: Where -- Victoria, Where -- Australia
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=4474
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Nov 5, 2009
11/09
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Image by Jesse Allen, based on data from the NASA-GSFC
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In early August 2004, widespread agricultural fires continued to dot the southern Africa landscape. This image of the region between Lake Victoria (top right) and Lake Malawi (bottom right) shows thousands of fires (red dots) detected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer <a HREF="http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov" target="outlink">(MODIS)</a> on NASA’s <a HREF="http://aqua.nasa.gov"...
Topics: Where -- Victoria, Where -- Malawi
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=19458
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Nov 5, 2009
11/09
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Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, at NASA GSFC
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Bushfires in southeast Australia are still burning out of control, threatening farmland, livestock, and homes in Victoria and New South Wales, Australia. More than 500 homes have been destroyed, and several towns have fires within one or two kilometers of the city limits. Erratic winds push the fires, some of which have been burning for weeks, one way and then another, frustrating and exhausting the hundreds of firefighters battling the blazes. This <a...
Topics: Where -- Australia, Where -- Victoria
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=18269
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Nov 4, 2009
11/09
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Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
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Across southeastern Australia, numerous fires were burning when the <a href="http://aqua.nasa.gov/" target="outlink"> Aqua</a> satellite passed over head on April 7, 2004. The <a href="http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov" target="outlink">Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer</a> (MODIS) sensor on the satellite collected this image and detected the locations of the actively burning fires, which are...
Topics: Where -- Australia, Where -- Victoria
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=6404
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Oct 30, 2009
10/09
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Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
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On June 23, 2002, the <a HREF="http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov" target="outlink">Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer</a> (MODIS) captured this image of fires (marked with red dots) burning in Tanzania in east-central Africa. At top center is Lake Victoria, the largest of the African Rift Valley Lakes. The fires located to the east-southeast of Lake Victoria are burning on the Serengeti Plain, a large grassland and savanna area that is home to...
Topics: Where -- Tanzania, Where -- Victoria
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=3107
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Oct 30, 2009
10/09
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Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
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The weather in southeast Australia refuses to cooperate with firefighters battling dozens of out-of-control bushfires in the Great Dividing Range Mountains in southeast New South Wales and northeast Victoria. Crews are preparing for another long weekend. Temperatures over the Jan. 25 weekend are expected to reach 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit), and gusty winds will continue to fan the flames.This true-color <a HREF="http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov"...
Topics: Where -- Australia, Where -- Victoria
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=4492
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Nov 5, 2009
11/09
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Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, at NASA GSFC
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According to news reports, the fire situation in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia, is grave. Hot temperatures and winds gusting up to 70 kilometers (43 miles) per hour have kept bushfires burning out of control in southeastern New South Wales and northeastern Victoria. The fire situation may be the worst the area has experienced in more than 50 years, and in Victoria, government officials are making plans to call up the army for firefighting assistance. Smoke continues to pour from the...
Topics: Where -- Victoria, Where -- Australia
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=18254
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Nov 5, 2009
11/09
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Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, at NASA GSFC
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The weather in southeast Australia refuses to cooperate with firefighters battling dozens of out-of-control bushfires in the Great Dividing Range Mountains in southeast New South Wales and northeast Victoria. Crews are preparing for another long weekend. Temperatures over the Jan. 25 weekend are expected to reach 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit), and gusty winds will continue to fan the flames.This true-color <a HREF="http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov"...
Topics: Where -- Australia, Where -- Victoria
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=18272
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Oct 30, 2009
10/09
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Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
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Fire danger in southeast New South Wales lessened somewhat between Tuesday, Jan. 21, and Wednesday, Jan. 22 (local time) due to changing winds, while just across the territory boundary, the danger in Victoria (south) increased. Residents were being warned that if they weren't prepared to fight the fires, they had better begin to evacuate their homes, as bushfires push through farm and grazing land on the outskirts of several towns and toward communities in northeastern Victoria.This true-color...
Topics: Where -- Victoria, Where -- Australia
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=4484
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Oct 30, 2009
10/09
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Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, at NASA GSFC
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A break in the weather has given firefighters in southeast Australia a much-needed hand as January winds to a close. After weeks of battling scores of fires in the remote and often inaccessible terrain of the Great Dividing Range Mountains of southeastern New South Wales and northeastern Victoria, firefighters were handed a little rain, calmer winds, and a drop in temperatures.More than a million acres of have been scorched by the blazes, and this false-color <a...
Topics: Where -- Australia, Where -- Victoria
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=5019
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Nov 4, 2009
11/09
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Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, at NASA GSFC
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A break in the weather has given firefighters in southeast Australia a much-needed hand as January winds to a close. After weeks of battling scores of fires in the remote and often inaccessible terrain of the Great Dividing Range Mountains of southeastern New South Wales and northeastern Victoria, firefighters were handed a little rain, calmer winds, and a drop in temperatures.More than a million acres of have been scorched by the blazes, and this false-color <a...
Topics: Where -- Australia, Where -- Victoria
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=18287
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Jul 6, 2011
07/11
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NASA -- Astronaut photograph eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=ISS012&roll=E&frame=11639 ISS012-E-11639 was acquired December 11, 2005, with a Kodak 760C digital camera using an 180 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and the Image Science & Analysis Group, Johnson Space Center. The earlier image, eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/photo.pl?mission=STS102&roll=716&frame=25 STS102-716-25, was taken from the Space Shuttle on March 15, 2001 using a Hasselblad film camera equipped with a 250 mm lens. The spaceflight.nasa.gov/home/index.html 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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Nearly six years of regional drought and rapidly increasing demand for water have resulted in decreasing water levels in lakes throughout East Africa. Water levels in Africa's largest lake, Lake Victoria, have dropped by about 1 meter (3 feet) over the past 10 years. The drought has similarly impacted the source regions of the Nile River, reducing water flows downstream into Egypt and Lake Nasser. This pair of images documents recent drops in water levels in the Toshka Lakes region of Egypt....
Topics: Where -- Victoria, Where -- Egypt
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=6175
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11/09
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Astronaut photograph was acquired December 11, 2005, with a Kodak 760C digital camera using an 180 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and the Image Science & Analysis Group, Johnson Space Center. The earlier image, was taken from the Space Shuttle on March 15, 2001 using a Hasselblad film camera equipped with a 250 mm lens. The 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
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Nearly six years of regional drought and rapidly increasing demand for water have resulted in decreasing water levels in lakes throughout East Africa. Water levels in Africa’s largest lake, Lake Victoria, have dropped by about 1 meter (3 feet) over the past 10 years. The drought has similarly impacted the source regions of the Nile River, reducing water flows downstream into Egypt and Lake Nasser.This pair of images documents recent drops in water levels in the Toshka Lakes region of Egypt....
Topics: Where -- Victoria, Where -- Egypt
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=17421
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Nov 5, 2009
11/09
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Image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, NASA-GSFC
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Across southeastern Australia, numerous fires were burning when the <a HREF="http://aqua.nasa.gov" target="outlink">Aqua</a> satellite passed over head on April 7, 2004. The <a HREF="http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov" target="outlink">Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer</a> (MODIS) sensor on the satellite collected this image and detected the locations of the actively burning fires, which are...
Topics: Where -- Australia, Where -- Victoria
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=19209
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Nov 5, 2009
11/09
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Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, at NASA GSFC
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Fire danger in southeast New South Wales lessened somewhat between Tuesday, Jan. 21, and Wednesday, Jan. 22 (local time) due to changing winds, while just across the territory boundary, the danger in Victoria (south) increased. Residents were being warned that if they weren't prepared to fight the fires, they had better begin to evacuate their homes, as bushfires push through farm and grazing land on the outskirts of several towns and toward communities in northeastern Victoria.This true-color...
Topics: Where -- Victoria, Where -- Australia
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=18262
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Nov 5, 2009
11/09
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NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, Goddard Space Flight Center
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In southwestern Victoria, Australia, a dangerous wildfire was raging on January 24, 2006, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer <a href="http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov">(MODIS)</a> on NASA’s <a href="http://terra.nasa.gov">Terra</a> satellite passed overhead and collected this image. The dark green vegetation of Grampians National Park is shrouded with smoke that drifts hundreds of kilometers to the north...
Topics: Where -- Victoria, Where -- Australia
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=20446
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Oct 30, 2009
10/09
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Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
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A break in the weather has given firefighters in southeast Australia a much-needed hand as January winds to a close. After weeks of battling scores of fires in the remote and often inaccessible terrain of the Great Dividing Range Mountains of southeastern New South Wales and northeastern Victoria, firefighters were handed a little rain, calmer winds, and a drop in temperatures.More than a million acres of have been scorched by the blazes, and this false-color <a...
Topics: Where -- Australia, Where -- Victoria
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=4880
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Oct 30, 2009
10/09
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Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
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A change in the wind direction has shifted the smoke billowing from bushfires in southeast Australia from east to west. This true-color <a HREF="http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov" target="outlink">Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer</a> (MODIS) image from the <a HREF="http://aqua.nasa.gov" target="outlink">Aqua</a> satellite on January 23, 2003, shows the fires (red dots) burning near the New...
Topics: Where -- Australia, Where -- Victoria
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=4490
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Nov 4, 2009
11/09
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NASA image courtesy the , Goddard Space Flight Center
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A fire that started on April 1, 2005, in the Wilsons Promontory National Park on the southeastern tip of Victoria, Australia, had scorched around 17,000 acres by April 12, 2005. These images from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer <a HREF="http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov" target="outlink">(MODIS)</a> on NASA’s <a href="http://terra.nasa.gov">Terra</a> and <a...
Topics: Where -- Victoria, Where -- Australia
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=19943
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Nov 4, 2009
11/09
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Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, at NASA GSFC
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North of Lake Victoria in eastern Africa fires (red dots) were scattered across the savanna, and were detected by the <a HREF="http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov" target="outlink">Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer</a> (MODIS) on the Terra satellite on February 2, 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 <a...
Topics: What -- Terra, Where -- Victoria
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=18295
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Nov 5, 2009
11/09
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Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, at NASA GSFC
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A change in the wind direction has shifted the smoke billowing from bushfires in southeast Australia from east to west. This true-color <a HREF="http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov" target="outlink">Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer</a> (MODIS) image from the <a HREF="http://aqua.nasa.gov" target="outlink">Aqua</a> satellite on January 23, 2003, shows the fires (red dots) burning near the New...
Topics: Where -- Australia, Where -- Victoria
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=18271
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Nov 4, 2009
11/09
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NASA image by Reto Stöckli and Robert Simmon
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Everyone knows that NASA studies space; fewer people know that NASA also studies Earth. Since the agency’s creation almost 50 years ago, NASA has been a world leader in space-based studies of our home planet. Today, NASA operates 18 of the most advanced Earth-observing satellites ever built. In honor of the deployment of this Earth Observing System, NASA is pleased to share the next generation of its series of stunning “Blue Marble” Earth images.This image of Africa from March 2005 is...
Topics: What -- Earth, Where -- Victoria
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=17335
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06/11
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NASA -- Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, modis-land.gsfc.nasa.gov/ MODIS Land Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC
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This true-color modarch.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image, acquired from data collected on October 12, 2001, displays the northwestern portion of the Ross Ice Shelf. Spanning nearly 600 miles in length, and achieving a thickness of 3000 feet in certain areas, the Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf in the world. Beginning at the top of the image and running south are the Prince Albert Mountains, which mark Antarctica's western coastline with the Ross...
Topics: Where -- Ross Sea, Where -- Victoria
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=1931
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Nov 5, 2009
11/09
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Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC
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This true-color <a href="http://modarch.gsfc.nasa.gov/" target="outlink">Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer</a> (MODIS) image, acquired from data collected on October 12, 2001, displays the northwestern portion of the Ross Ice Shelf. Spanning nearly 600 miles in length, and achieving a thickness of 3000 feet in certain areas, the Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf in the world. Beginning at the top of the image and running south...
Topics: Where -- Ross Sea, Where -- Victoria
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=15927
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Oct 30, 2009
10/09
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Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
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This series of true-color images from NASA’s <a HREF="http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov" target="outlink">Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer</a> (MODIS) show the portion of the Antarctic coastline that straddles the 180 degree longitude line. The image from November 9, 2001, shows Victoria Land at image left, the Ross Sea in center, and the Ross Ice Shelf at lower right. A rectangular ice berg is anchored near Ross Island near image center....
Topics: Where -- Victoria, Where -- Ross Sea
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=3840
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Oct 30, 2009
10/09
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Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
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This true-color MODIS image, acquired from data collected on October 12, 2001, displays the northwestern portion of the Ross Ice Shelf. Spanning nearly 600 miles in length, and achieving a thickness of 3000 feet in certain areas, the Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf in the world. Beginning at the top of the image and running south are the Prince Albert Mountains, which mark Antarctica's western coastline with the Ross Sea, the body of water occupying the upper-right area of the image....
Topics: Where -- Ross Sea, Where -- Victoria
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=2199
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Oct 30, 2009
10/09
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Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC
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This true-color <a href="http://modarch.gsfc.nasa.gov/">Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer</a> (MODIS) image, acquired from data collected on October 12, 2001, displays the northwestern portion of the Ross Ice Shelf. Spanning nearly 600 miles in length, and achieving a thickness of 3000 feet in certain areas, the Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf in the world. Beginning at the top of the image and running south are the Prince Albert...
Topics: Where -- Ross Sea, Where -- Victoria
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=2262
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Oct 30, 2009
10/09
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Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
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This series of true-color images from NASA’s <a HREF="http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov" target="outlink">Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer</a> (MODIS) show the portion of the Antarctic coastline that straddles the 180 degree longitude line. The image from November 9, 2001, shows Victoria Land at image left, the Ross Sea in center, and the Ross Ice Shelf at lower right. A rectangular ice berg is anchored near Ross Island near image center....
Topics: Where -- Victoria, Where -- Ross Sea
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=3841
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Oct 30, 2009
10/09
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Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
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This series of true-color images from NASA’s <a HREF="http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov" target="outlink">Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer</a> (MODIS) show the portion of the Antarctic coastline that straddles the 180 degree longitude line. The image from November 9, 2001, shows Victoria Land at image left, the Ross Sea in center, and the Ross Ice Shelf at lower right. A rectangular ice berg is anchored near Ross Island near image center....
Topics: Where -- Victoria, Where -- Ross Sea
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=3839
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Oct 30, 2009
10/09
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Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
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Much of the lushness of vegetation surrounding Lake Victoria (top center) appears to have faded with the lengthening of the season. (Compare to image from June 2, 2002.) Now fires (red dots) dominate the landscape as the agricultural burning season gets underway. This image was acquired on July 9, 2002, by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on the Terra satellite. Sensor: Terra/MODIS. Data Start Date: 7/9/02. Data End Date: 7/9/02.
Topics: What -- Terra, Where -- Victoria, Where -- Tanzania
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=3919
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Oct 30, 2009
10/09
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Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
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Firefighters in southeast Australia got a small break over the weekend of Jan. 25, as cool, damp weather gave an opportunity for fire control lines to be established around many threatened communities. Conditions are expected to become dangerous by mid-week, with temperatures over 100 degrees Fahrenheit and gusty winds. So far the blazes in Victoria and New South Wales have scorched more than 1 million acres.This true-color <a HREF="http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov"...
Topics: What -- Opportunity, Where -- Australia, Where -- Victoria
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=4498
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Nov 4, 2009
11/09
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Image by Reto Stockli, NASA Earth Observatory, based on data provided by the at NASA GSFC
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While winter approaches the Northern Hemisphere, Australia is welcoming a productive spring growing season. In 2002, drought kept crop production well below average in many parts of the country, but in 2003, much of the country is on track for a record or near-record grain harvest.Satellite images of vegetation greenness are a comprehensive and consistent way to track growing conditions of both natural vegetation and crops. By comparing the ratio of different kinds of energy reflected back to...
Topics: What -- Terra, Where -- Australia, Where -- Victoria
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=16661
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NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained from the team.
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In the Great Rift Valley in eastern Africa, scores of fires were burning on February 22, 2005, when this image was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer <a HREF="http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov" target="outlink">(MODIS)</a> on NASA’s <a HREF="http://aqua.nasa.gov" target="outlink">Aqua</a> satellite. Northwest of the largest lake, Lake Victoria, active fires (locations marked in...
Topics: What -- Sun, Where -- Victoria, Where -- Uganda
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=19863
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Nov 4, 2009
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A massive plume of smoke from a large fire event dominates this image of Victoria, Australia acquired on January 24, 2005. This raging brushfire is still occurring in and around Grampians National Park, west of Melbourne. As of January 26, 2006, some 700 firefighters on the ground supported by a dozen or more aircraft were unable to contain the blaze as their efforts were being hampered by heat and high winds – with gusts upwards of 50 kilometers per hour (30 miles per hour)- that are...
Topics: Where -- Victoria, Where -- Australia, Where -- Melbourne
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=8352
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Nov 5, 2009
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NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained courtesy of the team.
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Bushfires were burning out of control in several locations in southern Australia in mid-January 2006. Firefighters faced blazes across southern Western Australia, South Australia, and Victoria, which is pictured in this image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer <a href="http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov">(MODIS)</a> on NASA’s <a href="http://aqua.nasa.gov">Aqua</a> satellite. The image was captured on...
Topics: Where -- Australia, Where -- Victoria, Where -- Melbourne
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=20440
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NASA -- NASA image by Reto Stöckli and Robert Simmon
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Everyone knows that NASA studies space; fewer people know that NASA also studies Earth. Since the agency's creation almost 50 years ago, NASA has been a world leader in space-based studies of our home planet. Today, NASA operates 18 of the most advanced Earth-observing satellites ever built. In honor of the deployment of this Earth Observing System, NASA is pleased to share the next generation of its series of stunning ''Blue Marble'' Earth images. This image of Africa from March 2005 is just...
Topics: What -- Earth, What -- Terra, Where -- Victoria
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=5935
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Nov 4, 2009
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Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, at NASA GSFC
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Firefighters in southeast Australia got a small break over the weekend of Jan. 25, as cool, damp weather gave an opportunity for fire control lines to be established around many threatened communities. Conditions are expected to become dangerous by mid-week, with temperatures over 100 degrees Fahrenheit and gusty winds. So far the blazes in Victoria and New South Wales have scorched more than 1 million acres.This true-color <a HREF="http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov"...
Topics: What -- Opportunity, Where -- Australia, Where -- Victoria
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=18281
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Oct 30, 2009
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Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
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On January 28, 2002, MODIS detected several fires burning in the African countries of Uganda (top center) and the Democratic Republic of Congo (left), and the smoke from these fires is partially obscuring Lake Albert, Lake Edward, and Lake Kivu (in order from top to bottom). The grayish cast to Lake Tanganyika to the south and Lake Victoria, to the east is due more to sunglint than smoke. These lakes all fall along Africa's Great Rift Valley, where three tectonic plates are pulling away from...
Topics: Where -- Uganda, Where -- Victoria, Where -- Tanzania
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=2428
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Oct 30, 2009
10/09
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Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
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According to news reports, more than 70 bushfires were burning across New South Wales, Australia, as of January 10, 2003. Another 20 large fires were burning to the south in Victoria. These true- and false-color <a HREF="http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov" target="outlink">Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer</a> (MODIS) images from the <a HREF="http://terra.nasa.gov/" target="outlink">Terra</a> and...
Topics: Where -- New Zealand, Where -- Australia, Where -- Victoria
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=4479
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Oct 30, 2009
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Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
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According to news reports, more than 70 bushfires were burning across New South Wales, Australia, as of January 10, 2003. Another 20 large fires were burning to the south in Victoria. These true- and false-color <a HREF="http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov" target="outlink">Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer</a> (MODIS) images from the <a HREF="http://terra.nasa.gov/" target="outlink">Terra</a> and...
Topics: Where -- New Zealand, Where -- Australia, Where -- Victoria
Source: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=4495
Photographed on 01/07/2003. -- Group photo. Photographed at building 1244 with 757. Systems Development Brance Civil Service personnel include: Carey S. Buttrill, Head; Wendy F. Pennington, Asst. Head; Anesha S. Carroll, Secretary; Miguel A. Alvarex, Monica H. Barnes, Vernet P. Boone, Paul F. Brown, Barry R. Bryant, Donald G. Buhl. Richard Chase, Victoria I. Chung, Paul C. Davidson, Ralph G. Dooley, James J. Fay, Mark w. Frye, Richard D. Grube, Donner Grigsby, Lawrence E. Gupton, Alton C. Hall,...
Topics: Employees. -- Employees. Photographs. --, What -- Stella, Where -- Victoria
