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NASA’s Newest SeaWinds Instrument Breezes Into Operation
One of NASA’s newest Earth-observing instruments, the SeaWindsscatterometer aboard Japan’s Advanced Earth Observing Satellite(ADEOS) 2—now renamed Midori 2—has successfully transmitted its firstradar data to our home planet, generating its first high-quality images. From its orbiting perch high above Earth, SeaWinds…
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 2/28/2003
Cassini Significant Event Report For Week Ending 02/28/03 The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired from the Goldstone tracking station on Wednesday, February 26. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally. Information on…
Seasonal Surface Changes in Namibia and Central Angola
browse image fororbit 14388 (210 KB JPEG) Brightness variations in the terrain along a portion of southwesternAfrica are displayed in these views from the Multi-angle ImagingSpectroRadiometer (MISR). The panels portray an area that includesNamibia’s Skeleton Coast and Etosha National Park…
Tropical Cyclone Japhet (19S)
On February 26, 2003, SeaWiFS captured this viewof Tropical Cyclone Japhet in the MozambiqueChannel.Farther south, heightened chlorophyll concentrations are visible where the Agulhas Return Current interacts with the Antarctic Circumpolar Currentand sea floor topography.References & Resources Provided by the SeaWiFS…
Deadly Earthquake, Xianjiang Province, China
A destructive earthquake of magnitude 6.4 rattled China’s Xinjiang province at 10:04 AM (local time) on February 24, 2003. Over 250 people were killed. This remote, flat, and mostly featureless area of western China (called the Tarim Basin by geologists)…
The Human Footprint
In North America, the black-tailed prairie dog occupies as little as 5 percent of its former habitat. In Madagascar, more than 20 lemur species are threatened with extinction, and at least 15 species are already extinct. And on the island…
Scandinavian Peninsula in Winter
With a landscape largely shaped by glaciers over the last ice age, the Scandinavian Peninsula is as picturesque in the winter as it is cold. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument aboard NASA’s Terra satellite captured the above image…
Lutzow-Holm Bay and the Shirase Glacier, Antarctica
browse image of orbit 16454 (200 KB JPEG) These views from the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR)portray the Lutzow-Holm Bay region of Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica,on September 5, 2002. Although Queen Maud Land remains one of the leaststudied regions of…
London by Night
This nighttime view of the British capital offers unique insight into the city’s urban density and infrastructure as highlighted by electrical lighting. Interpreting the brightest areas as the most populated, the population density drops off rapidly from the bright urban…
Smoke from Staten Island Refinery Fire
According to news sources, a barge loaded with fuel exploded at a loading dock on Staten Island on the morning of February 21, 2003, shaking buildings for miles around and sending a column of thick black smoke into the air.…
Earth Science Data from Space Shuttle Columbia (STS 107)
Between two banks of clouds, a pall of gray smoke hangs above the Amazonrainforest in this image that illustrates how complex interactions betweensmoke and the atmosphere can influence weather and climate. Few clouds arepresent in the smoke between the cloud…
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 2/21/2003
Cassini Significant Event Report For Week Ending 02/21/03 The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired from the Madrid tracking station on Wednesday, February 19. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally. Information on…
Detroit, Michigan
Bordered on its east side by the Detroit River, which connects Lake Saint Clair (east) to Lake Erie (south), Detroit is Michigan’s largest city. In this scene, the blue-gray cluster of pixels shows the greater Detroit area. East of Lake…
Dust Storm over Gulf of Oman
Two thick plumes of desert dust (light browns) were blowing over Oman and across the Gulf of Oman toward Iran and Pakistan on February 18, 2003. The same strong winds that lofted the dust eastward across the coast of Oman…
Lack of Snow Drives Iditarod North
For the first time in its history, the route of the famous Iditarod dogsled race in Alaska has been driven over 200 miles northward due to lack of snow. Unusually warm and rainy conditions for late winter have melted snow…
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