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Dust Storm Strips Away Australian Topsoil

A low-pressure system off the southeasterncorner of Australia was drawing out a cloudof dust on March 20, 2003. According to news reports, the dust plume consists primarily of topsoil that strong winds swept up off the parched landscape in that…

Smoke Across the Yucatan and Central America

On March 18, 2003, fires in southern Mexico, concentrated heavily on the Yucatan Peninsula (left of image center), were producing large amounts of smoke that drifted out over the Gulf of Mexico to the north and the Caribbean Sea to…

Fires in Mexico and Central America

For a second day, the Sea-viewing Wide Filed-of-View Sensor (SeaWiFS) captured an image of smoke filling the skies over southern Mexico and Central America. Smoke from fires, which are concentrated in northern Guatemala (on the Yucatan Peninsula, southeast of center),…

Tropical Cyclone Erica Off New Caledonia

East of Australia in the Pacific Ocean, Tropical Cyclone Erica plowed into the French island of New Caledonia on March 13, 2003, leaving at least two people dead, one hundred injured, and an estimated one thousand without homes. Erica peaked…

Chicago, Illinois

Despite being named after the Algonquian word for skunk, Chicago is one of America’s most thriving and spectacular cities. Spanning 22 miles along the southwest shore of Lake Michigan, the city itself holds nearly 2.9 million people and sits in…

Buenos Aires at Night

Buenos Aires is one of the larger cities seen by orbiting crews. Twelve million people, almost one third of all Argentines, live in this city, often called the “Paris of the South”.

Dust Streamers Over Gulf of Alaska

The rivers that empty into the Gulf of Alaska along the state’s southern coast carry large volumes of fine glacial silt—fine sediments produced by glaciers grinding down the mountains. This glacial silt gets deposited along river banks, in sandbars, and…

Shenandoah National Park, Virginia

Shenandoah National Park lies astride part of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which form the southeastern range of the greater Appalachian Mountains in Virginia. The park is well framed by this one-degree of latitude (38-39 north) by one-degree of longitude (78-79…

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Significant Event Report for Week Ending 3/14/2003

Cassini Significant Event Report For Week Ending 03/14/03 The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired from the Canberra tracking station on Wednesday, March 12. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally. Information on…

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Casting Light and Shadows on a Saharan Dust Storm

Animation (367 KB QuickTime Movie) On March 2, 2003, near-surface winds carried a large amount of Saharan dust aloft and transported the material westward over the Atlantic Ocean. These observations from the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) aboard NASA’s Terra satellite…

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Too Close for Comfort: Hubble Discovers an Evaporating Planet

For the first time, astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have observed the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet evaporating off into space. Much of the planet may eventually disappear, leaving only a dense core. The planet is a type of…

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Ice Covers the Great Lakes

With spring just a few weeks away, the North American Great Lakes are still locked in winter. This image from March 9, 2003, shows ice almost completely covering several lakes, including the largest lake—Lake Superior—at upper left. Just left of…

CAT Scan of Tropical Cyclone Kalunde

This dramatic image synthesized from NASA and NASDA’s Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite, the NASA QuikScat satellite, and Meteosat 5 cloud imagery captures Super Typhoon Kalunde just as it was achieving peak intensity late in the day on March…