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« Reply #12 on: December 22, 2015, 05:39:20 AM » |
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13. Exploring the World’s Protected Areas from Space A new book released this week highlights how the view from space with Earth-orbiting sensors is being used to protect some of the world’s most interesting, changing, and threatened places. From space, Egmont National Park in New Zealand shows the benefits and limitations of protected areas. In this Landsat 8 image acquired on July 3, 2014, the park, with Mt. Taranaki at its center, was established in 1900. This isolated island of protected forest (dark green areas) is surrounded by once-forested pasturelands (light and brown green).
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« Reply #13 on: December 22, 2015, 05:41:52 AM » |
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14. Earth’s Vital Signs ASA launched the Earth Observing System’s flagship satellite “Terra,” named for Earth, on December 18, 1999. Terra has been collecting data about Earth’s changing climate. On February 24, 2000, sensors on NASA’s Terra satellite began opening their shutters and making their first observations.
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« Reply #14 on: December 22, 2015, 05:42:22 AM » |
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15. Volcanic Smog and Sunglint in the Vanuatu Archipelago On Jan. 7, 2014 NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over the Vanuatu Archipelago, capturing this true-color image showing a broad plume of “vog” (volcanic smog) and ash.
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« Reply #15 on: December 22, 2015, 05:42:53 AM » |
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16. An Astronaut’s View from Station A view of Earth as seen from the Cupola on the Earth-facing side of the International Space Station. Visible in the top left foreground is a Russian Soyuz crew capsule. In the lower right corner, a solar array panel can be seen. This photo was taken from the ISS on June 12, 2013.
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« Reply #16 on: December 22, 2015, 05:43:32 AM » |
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17. Satellite View of the Americas on Earth Day NOAA’s GOES-East satellite captured this stunning view of the Americas on Earth Day, April 22, 2014 at 11:45 UTC/7:45 a.m. EDT. The data from GOES-East was made into an image by the NASA/NOAA GOES Project at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
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« Reply #17 on: December 22, 2015, 05:44:03 AM » |
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18. Another World This other worldly landscape is actually Dagze Co, one of many inland lakes in Tibet. In glacial times, the region was considerably wetter, and lakes were correspondingly much larger, as evidenced by the numerous fossil shorelines that circle the lake and attest to the presence of a previously larger, deeper lake. Over millennia changes in climate.Go to The NEXT Page for More Pictures >>>
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