Notícias NASA

Forest Fires in Southern France

Forest Fire in Southern FranceAs many as thirty forest fires were started in the last week of July 2003 along France’s Mediterranean Coast. Several tourists were killed and thousands more evacuated by the fires, which appear to have been started…

Smoke over Eastern Russia

At last count on July 26, 2003, 87 fires were burning in eastern Russian and on Sakhalin Island, producing a thick, widespread pall of smoke over much of northeast Asia. About 2,700 firefighters have been battling the blazes in Russia’s…

Earth’s Gravity Field

The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) has released its first science product: the most accurate map yet of Earth’s gravity field.

Wildfires in Glacier National Park and Alberta

Fast-moving forest fires continued to race through terrain at the front range of the Rocky Mountains in northern Montana (bottom right) and Alberta, Canada (top right), on July 27, 2003. In Montana, the fires (marked in red) forced thousands of…

Korean Demilitarized Zone

On July 27, 1953, an armistice agreement brought fighting, though not the war itself, to an end in Korea. One legacy of that 50-year-old ceasefire has been the 250-km-long (148-mile) truce line bisecting the Korean Peninsula into northern and southern…

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Salt Lake City, Utah

This regional view of Salt Lake City, photographed on 14 June 2003 from the International Space Station, shows the city and its suburbs nestled between the Wasatch Front and the Great Salt Lake.

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The Topography of France

This image of France was generated with data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM).

Double Typhoons in the Western Pacific

There were two tropical cyclones in the West Pacific this past week. Koni went through the central Philippines (below and to the left of center) as a tropical storm where it dumped heavy rains before becoming a minimal typhoon with…

Significant Event Report for Week Ending 7/25/2003

Cassini Significant Event Report For Week Ending 07/25/03 The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired from the Goldstone tracking station on Wednesday, July 23. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally. Information on…

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Spectacular Bloom in the Barents Sea

The Barents Sea north of Norway was awash in colorful swirls of blue and green on July 19, 2003. This spectacular display of color reveals the biological richness of these cold, nutrient-rich waters—a bloom of tiny marine plants called phytoplankton.…

Fires in the Northwest US

On Monday afternoon, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite detected several large fires (marked with red outlines) burning across the Northwest United States. The largest of the fires in the scene is the Fawn Peak Complex…

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Race through the Pyrénées Mountains

The 16th stage of the Tour de France—the world’s toughest bike race—travels across the Pyrénées Atlantiques region from Pau to Bayonne. Instead of traveling the gentle gradient along the Gave de Pau and Adour rivers, the race heads south for…

Vinson Massif

Vinson Massif is the tallest mountain in Antarctica. Its peak reaches 4897 m (16,067 ft), thoughthe mountain itself is a large raised feature around thirteen miles long and eight miles wide,dominating the Sentinel Range of the Ellesworth Mountains in which…