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Deadly Fire in Kruger National Park, South Africa
An explosive fire in Kruger National Park in the northern Republic of SouthAfrica has killed at least 21 people and injured several others, perhapsfatally. This true-color image from NASA’s Moderate-resolution ImagingSpectroradiometer (MODIS) shows the location of that fire and severalothers…
African Dust Blows over the Caribbean
Shuttle astronauts frequently track Saharan dust storms as they blow from north Africa across the Atlantic Ocean. Dust palls blowing from Africa take about a week to cross the Atlantic. Recently, researchers have linked Saharan dust to coral disease, allergic…
Drought in the Klamath River Basin
For more than 100 years, groups in the western United States have fought over water. During the 1880s, sheep ranchers and cattle ranchers argued over drinking water for their livestock on the high plains. In 1913, the city of Los…
A Panoramic View of the Emigrant Gap Fire, California
Animation:Multi-angle view (300 KB Animated GIF) These Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) images of the Central Valleyand the Sierra Nevada Mountains show several smoke plumes from wildfiresburning throughout Northern California on August 13, 2001. The overviewimage represents an area of 336…
Significant Event Report for Week Ending 9/7/2001
Cassini Significant Event Report For Week Ending 09/07/01 The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired from the Madrid tracking station on Wednesday, September 5. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally. Information on…
Ultraviolet Radiation: How It Affects Life on Earth
Stratospheric ozone depletion due to human activities has resulted in an increase of ultraviolet radiation on the Earth’s surface. The article describes some effects on human health, aquatic ecosystems, agricultural plants and other living things, and explains how much ultraviolet…
Flooding Along the Nile River
Although flooding along the Nile River in the Africancountry of Sudan is an annual event, this year’s riverlevels are the highest in more than 20 years. About 70,000 acres of farmland have been inundated by the rising river,displacing roughly 7,000…
A Galaxy Blazes With Star Formation
Most galaxies form new stars at a fairly slow rate, but members of a rare class known as “starburst” galaxies blaze with extremely active star formation. The galaxy NGC 3310 is one such starburst galaxy that is forming clusters of…
Elevation Data of Las Bayas, Argentina
large images:shaded relief (1MB JPEG)3-d anaglyph (1MB JPEG) The interplay of volcanism, stream erosion and landslides is evidentin this Shuttle Radar Topography Mission view of the eastern flank ofthe Andes Mountains, southeast of San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina.Older lava flows…
Los Angeles
This Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) image was acquired on July 23, 2001, and covers an area of 64 by 72 km. The data were processed to create a simulated natural colorimage. From its start as a…
Overview of Mesopotamia
Running through the deserts of Iraq (image center) are the Tigris(right) and Euphrates (left) Rivers. The land between the confluence ofthe two rivers is the culturally, historically, and ecologicallysignificant Mesopotamian Fertile Crescent, situated just southeast ofcenter in this true-color image…
California Wildfires as Seen From the Space Shuttle
An astronaut on the Space Shuttle photographed several wildfires burning in California in August 2001.
No Nino Anytime Soon
These data, taken during a 10-day collection cycle ending August 18 by the TOPEX-Poseidon mission,2001, show that above-normal sea-surface heights and warmer oceantemperatures (indicated by the red and white areas) still blanket thefar-western tropical Pacific and much of the north…
Star & Oregon Fires
Flying on board NASA’s Terrasatellite, the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)provides daily global coverage of wild fires such as these fires,indicated with red outlines, in California. MODIS detects such a widerange of electromagnetic energy that it can detect the heat from…
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