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Climate, Earth, Earth Observation, Satellites

Earth’s Van Gogh Oceans

10 Apr , 2012 by Nancy Atkinson Video

I was traveling the day this video was released, so missed posting it earlier. If you haven’t seen it yet, this animation of ocean surface currents is just mesmerizing. It shows ocean currents from June 2005 to December 2007, created with data from NASA satellites. In the video you can see how bigger currents like […]

Earth Observations, oceans, Satellites

Earth, Earth Observation, Satellites

As Seen From Space: Beautiful Swirling Phytoplankton Blooms

13 Jan , 2012 by Nancy Atkinson

[/caption] One of the orbiting windows to our world, an Earth-observing satellite named Envisat, took this image in early December 2011 showing a phytoplankton bloom swirling into a figure-8 in the South Atlantic Ocean about 600 km east of the Falkland Islands. The European Space Agency says that since the phytoplankton are sensitive to environmental […]

Earth Observations, Envisat, Satellites

Earth Observation, Natural Disasters, Satellites

Astounding Satellite Views of the Puyehue-Cordón Ash Plume

14 Jun , 2011 by Nancy Atkinson

[/caption] An incredible amount of ash is being spewed from the erupting Puyehue-Cordón Volcano Complex in Chile. This image, taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite on June 13, 2011, shows a large plume of volcanic ash blowing about 780 kilometers east and then northeast over Argentina. A plume of […]

Earth Observations, Natural Disasters, Puyehue-Cordón Volcano, volcanoes

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