![[image]](/images/mediatype_image.gif) | Garden City, Kansas - Image provided by the Satellite Systems Branch
Center pivot irrigation systems create red circles of healthy vegetation in this image of croplands near Garden City, Kansas.This image was acquired by Enhanced Thematic Mapper plus (ETM+) sensor on September 25, 2000. This is a false-color composite image made using near infrared, red, and green wavelengths. The image has also been sharpened using the sensor’s panchromatic band.
Keywords: Where -- Kansas
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| Fires in the Great Plains - NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained from the team.
Before European colonization of North America’s Great Plains, spring and summer fires, triggered both by lightning and by Native Americans who used the fires to drive game, would race across the prairies, suppressing invasion from woody plants and hastening the germination of new grass seeds.Today, the springtime fires in places such as Kansas are mostly agricultural fires. Farmers and ranchers use fire to clear last year's stubble...
Keywords: Where -- Kansas
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| Fires in the Great Plains - NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained from the team.
Before European colonization of North America’s Great Plains, spring and summer fires, triggered both by lightning and by Native Americans who used the fires to drive game, would race across the prairies, suppressing invasion from woody plants and hastening the germination of new grass seeds.Today, the springtime fires in places such as Kansas are mostly agricultural fires. Farmers and ranchers use fire to clear last year's stubble...
Keywords: Where -- Kansas
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| NASA - UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS WING EROSION BOOT - NASA/Glenn Research Center
NASA - UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS WING EROSION BOOT
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| Power Beaming Challenge 2009 - NASA
Kansas City Space Pirate team. Photo courtesy of NASA
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| 2010 Centennial Challenges Technical Symposium - NASA
Andrew Petro, Centennial Challenges Manager, introduces PowerBeaming challenge panelists, from LaserMotive and Kansas City Space Pirates. Photo courtesy of Patrick Connell/NASA HQ
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| NASA - UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS WING EROSION BOOT - NASA/Glenn Research Center
NASA - UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS WING EROSION BOOT
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| NASA - UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS WING EROSION BOOT - NASA/Glenn Research Center
NASA - UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS WING EROSION BOOT
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| Fires in the Great Plains: Image of the Day - NASA -- NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained from the rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ MODIS Rapid Response team.
Before European colonization of North America's Great Plains, spring and summer fires, triggered both by lightning and by Native Americans who used the fires to drive game, would race across the prairies, suppressing invasion from woody plants and hastening the germination of new grass seeds. Today, the springtime fires in places such as Kansas are mostly agricultural fires. Farmers and ranchers use fire to clear last year's stubble...
Keywords: What -- Aqua; Where -- Kansas
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| Garden City, Kansas - Image provided by the Satellite Systems Branch
Center pivot irrigation systems create red circles of healthy vegetation in this image of croplands near Garden City, Kansas.This image was acquired by Enhanced Thematic Mapper plus (ETM+) sensor on September 25, 2000. This is a false-color composite image made using near infrared, red, and green wavelengths. The image has also been sharpened using the sensor’s panchromatic band. Sensor: Landsat 7/ETM+...
Keywords: What -- Landsat 7; Where -- Kansas
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| Garden City, Kansas: Image of the Day - NASA -- Image provided by the edc.usgs.gov/ USGS EROS Data Center Satellite Systems Branch
Center pivot irrigation systems create red circles of healthy vegetation in this image of croplands near Garden City, Kansas. This image was acquired by landsat7.usgs.gov/ Landsat 7's Enhanced Thematic Mapper plus (ETM+) sensor on September 25, 2000. This is a false-color composite image made using near infrared, red, and green wavelengths. The image has also been sharpened using the sensor's panchromatic band.
Keywords: What -- Landsat 7; Where -- Kansas
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| Fires in Central U.S. - Image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, NASA GSFC
While ice still clings to the shores of Lakes Superior (top) and Michigan (bottom), spring’s green is creeping up from the south in this true-color (MODIS) from the satellite on April 11, 2003. Brush clearing and other fires probably related to agricultural activities were detected by MODIS and are marked with red dots. Fires are concentrated in Oklahoma (bottom left) and Kansas (to the north), but are scattered across other states as well.The high-resolution image provided above is 500 meters...
Keywords: Where -- Michigan; Where -- Oklahoma; Where -- Kansas
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| Installing the MCoRDS Antennas - NASA/Patrick Black
Engineers at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops, Va., work on the P-3B aircraft to install antennas for the Multichannel Coherent Radar Depth Sounder (MCoRDS) instrument -- a University of Kansas radar that measures ice sheet thickness and maps the varied terrain below the ice. Credit: NASA/Patrick Black
Keywords: Where -- Wallops Flight Facility; Where -- Kansas
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| Fires in the Great Plains - NASA image courtesy the Goddard Space Flight Center
In the plains south of Topeka, Kansas, on April 9, 2006, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s satellite detected numerous fires burning. The larger image shows fires to the south in Oklahoma, as well. Marked in red in this photo-like satellite image, many of the fires are associated with dark-colored burn scars. MODIS cannot tell the cause of the fires it detects, but this area supports numerous ranches and farms and it is possible that the fires are for brush or pasture...
Keywords: Where -- Topeka; Where -- Kansas; Where -- Oklahoma
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| Fires in the Great Plains - NASA image courtesy the Goddard Space Flight Center
In Kansas, dozens of active fires were burning when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s satellite passed overhead on April 12, 2006. The fires are marked in red in the scene. The tan-and green-speckled landscape is darkened by burn scars as well. Many of these fires may be intentional fires set by people to clear ranch or farmland of brush for grazing, planting, or to reduce fire danger later in the season.The high-resolution image provided above has a spatial resolutio...
Keywords: Where -- Kansas; Where -- United States of America
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| Getting a Little Air - NASA
A team from Erie High School in Kansas took first place in the high school division with a time of 3 minutes, 17 seconds.
Keywords: Getting a Little Air; Where -- Kansas
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| Fires in Central U.S. - Image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, NASA GSFC
This (MODIS) image from the satellite on April 10, 2003, shows scores of fires (red dots) burning in the central United States. Fires are concentrated in Kansas (top) and Oklahoma (below), and are likely agricultural. To the southeast, a few fires are associated with large plumes of white smoke.The high-resolution image provided above is 500 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response System provides this image at MODIS’ maximum spatial resolution of Sensor: Aqua/MODIS.
Keywords: Where -- United States of America; Where -- Kansas; Where -- Oklahoma
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| Tornadoes Spawn near Deshler, Nebraska - Images courtesy NASA Animations by Robert Simmon.
Animations small animation (1.4 MB QuickTime) large animation (2.5 MB QuickTime) broadcast animation (105 MB QuickTime)On the evening of Sunday, June 22, 2003, severe storms pounded southern Nebraska and northern Kansas with about a foot (30 cm) of rain, large hailstones, and at least seven tornadoes. The image above shows the tops of the thunderheads—with their characteristic “anvil clouds” extending eastward—at 7:15 p.m...
Keywords: What -- Environmental Satellite; Where -- Nebraska; Where -- Kansas; Where -- Lincoln
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| Snow Storm in Colorado - Jesse Allen
A big snowstorm brought much-needed moisture to the state of Colorado on January 19, 2006. As reported by the Rocky Mountain News, before the storm, the state’s assistant climatologist had warned that drought was beginning to affect the foothills west of the Denver metro area and the plains to the east of the city. A week later, relief arrived, although opinions varied as to whether it was enough to stop the developing drought conditions...
Keywords: Where -- Colorado; Where -- Denver; Where -- Kansas; Where -- Nebraska
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| Snow Storm in Colorado - NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained from the .
A big snowstorm brought much-needed moisture to the state of Colorado on January 19, 2006. As reported by the Rocky Mountain News, before the storm, the state’s assistant climatologist had warned that drought was beginning to affect the foothills west of the Denver metro area and the plains to the east of the city. A week later, relief arrived, although opinions varied as to whether it was enough to stop the developing drought conditions.The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer flying...
Keywords: Where -- Colorado; Where -- Denver; Where -- Kansas; Where -- Nebraska
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| Snowstorm in the American Midwest - NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained courtesy of the team.
The vernal equinox marks the start of spring in the Northern Hemisphere. But after a record-setting warm winter, the start of spring 2006 came with an ironic twist: a powerful snowstorm that blanketed most of the American Midwest in heavy snow. According to the Associated Press, snow fell as rapidly as two inches an hour in Illinois and Indiana, while in parts of Nebraska, total accumulations were as much as two feet (roughly 60 centimeters) of snow, closing sections of Interstate 80...
Keywords: Where -- Illinois; Where -- Indiana; Where -- Nebraska; Where -- Colorado; Where -- Kansas
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| Tornadoes Spawn near Deshler, Nebraska - Images courtesy NASA Animations by Robert Simmon.
Animations small animation (1.4 MB QuickTime) large animation (2.5 MB QuickTime) broadcast animation (105 MB QuickTime)On the evening of Sunday, June 22, 2003, severe storms pounded southern Nebraska and northern Kansas with about a foot (30 cm) of rain, large hailstones, and at least seven tornadoes. The image above shows the tops of the thunderheads—with their characteristic “anvil clouds” extending eastward—at 7:15 p.m...
Keywords: What -- Environmental Satellite; Where -- Nebraska; Where -- Kansas; Where -- Lincoln
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| Dust Storm over Colorado and Kansas - Image courtesy Liam Gumley, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Winds in excess of 30 miles per hour blew across most of the midwestern United States on April 18, 2004. This true-color scene shows a large dust storm blowing from eastern Colorado into western Kansas, as a result of the strong winds, measured at near hurricane force in this region. According to news reports, the storm reduced visibility at the surface to less than a mile and contributed to a number of car accidents in the region, including a 17-car pileup near Burlington, CO.This image was acq...
Keywords: Where -- United States of America; Where -- Colorado; Where -- Kansas
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| Tornadoes Spawn near Deshler, Nebraska: Image of the Day - NASA -- Images courtesy NASA rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes/ GOES Project Science Office. Animations by Robert Simmon.
Animations eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/3000/3568/goes_nebraska_20030622_sm.mov small animation (1.4 MB QuickTime) eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/3000/3568/goes_nebraska_20030622_lrg.mov large animation (2.5 MB QuickTime) eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/3000/3568/goes_nebraska_20030622_ntsc.mov broadcast animation (105 MB QuickTime) On the evening of Sunday, June 22, 2003, severe storms pounded southern Nebraska and northern Kansas with about a foot (30 cm...
Keywords: What -- Environmental Satellite; Where -- Nebraska; Where -- Kansas; Where -- Lincoln
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| Texas Greenup: Image of the Day - NASA -- NASA imagery created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using SPOT data provided courtesy of the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service and processed by Jennifer Small and Assaf Anyamba of the ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov/gimms/htdocs/ GIMMS Group at NASA GSFC.
June 2007 was one of the wettest Junes on record for the state of Texas. Starting in late May, a string of low-pressure systems settled in over the U.S. Southern Plains and unleashed weeks of heavy to torrential rain. During the final week of June, much of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas received more than 330 percent of their average rainfall, said the www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/us-weekly.php?year=2007&month=06&sat=30&submit_form=Submit&_submit_check=1#panom National Climatic Data Center...
Keywords: Where -- Texas; Where -- Oklahoma; Where -- Kansas; Where -- New Mexico
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| Tornadoes Spawn near Deshler, Nebraska: Natural Hazards - NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
On the evening of Sunday, June 22, 2003, severe storms pounded southern Nebraska and northern Kansas with about a foot (30 cm) of rain, large hailstones, and at least seven tornadoes. The image above shows the tops of the thunderheads -- with their characteristic ''anvil clouds'' extending eastward -- at 7:15 p.m. central time. The image above and accompanying animation were produced using NOAA Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) data...
Keywords: What -- Environmental Satellite; Where -- Nebraska; Where -- Kansas; Where -- Lincoln
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| Colorado Snow: Image of the Day - NASA -- NASA image courtesy the rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. The Rapid Response Team provides rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?AERONET_BSRN_BAO_Boulder daily images of this region.
By January 7, 2007, Colorado had endured three major snowstorms in as many weeks. The earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=14054 first storm arrived on December 20. The second arrived on December 28, and the third struck on January 5. According to Denver's Channel 4 news station snow totals for the cbs4denver.com/weatherblog/local_blogentry_363165702.html second storm ranged from 15 to 70 centimeters (6 to 27.5 inches), and for the cbs4denver.com/weatherblog/lo...
Keywords: What -- Terra; Where -- Colorado; Where -- Kansas; Where -- Nebraska; Where -- Denver
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| Oklahoma Tornadoes - Robert Simmon, Goddard DAAC
Tornadoes in Oklahoma and Kansas on May 3, 1999, killed at least 40 people and caused over 500 million dollars in damages. One of the tornadoes was an F-5, the largest and most powerful classification. Although no direct measurement of windspeed is possible in such powerful storms, winds in an F-5 tornado are capable of topping 300 miles per hour.The GOES-East weather satellite produces images of most of the United States every 30 minutes in visible and infra-red wavelengths...
Keywords: Where -- Oklahoma; Where -- Kansas; Where -- United States of America
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| Crop Circles in Kansas - NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan
Resembling a work of modern art, variegated green crop circles cover what was once shortgrass prairie in southwestern Kansas. The most common crops in this region—Finney County—are corn, wheat, and sorghum. Each of these crops was at a different point of development when the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer () captured this image on June 24, 2001, accounting for the varying shades of green and yellow...
Keywords: What -- Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer; Where -- Kansas
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| Water Purification Product - NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center
Ecomaster, an affiliate of BioServe Space Technologies, this PentaPure technology has been used to purify water for our nation's Space Shuttle missions since 1981. WTC-Ecomaster of Mirneapolis, Minnesota manufactures water purification systems under the brand name PentaPure (TM). BioServe researcher Dr. George Marchin, of Kansas State University, first demonstrated the superiority of this technology and licensed it to WTC...
Keywords: What -- Space Shuttle Orbiter; What -- Earth; Where -- Minnesota; Where -- Kansas
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![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Oklahoma Tornadoes - Robert Simmon, Goddard DAAC
Tornadoes in Oklahoma and Kansas on May 3, 1999, killed at least 40 people and caused over 500 million dollars in damages. One of the tornadoes was an F-5, the largest and most powerful classification. Although no direct measurement of windspeed is possible in such powerful storms, winds in an F-5 tornado are capable of topping 300 miles per hour.The GOES-East weather satellite produces images of most of the United States every 30 minutes in visible and infra-red wavelengths...
Keywords: Where -- Oklahoma; Where -- Kansas; Where -- United States of America
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| Saturn V First Stage Assembly - NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center
This photograph shows a Saturn V first stage (S-1C). This stage was assembled at the Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. With assistance by the Boeing Company, the manufacturer, this first stage was assembled using components made by Boeing in Wichita, Kansas and New Orleans.
Keywords: What -- Saturn; Where -- Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC); Where -- Kansas
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| Snowstorm in New Mexico - Image courtesy Jesse Allen, based on data from the EOS Data Pool at NASA GSFC
Heavy snow left New Mexico in a state of emergency on February 25, 2004, after a large storm swept across the region the previous day. Roads, schools, businesses, and even the state government were all forced to close in the height of the storm. The (MODIS) on the satellite tracked a blue trail of snow across northern Texas, New Mexico, and Southern Colorado on February 25. Blue patches of snow also appear in southern Utah, upper left corner...
Keywords: Where -- New Mexico; Where -- Texas; Where -- Colorado; Where -- Utah; Where -- Kansas; Where -- Oklahoma; Where -- Arizona
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| Growing-Season Fires in Central United States - Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center
Agricultural burning in preparation for the growing season was underway in the central United States at the time of this image, captured by the (MODIS) on the satellite on March 31, 2004. Across the dun-colored witner landscape, spring green is beginning to spread across the south-central parts of the country, including (top left to bottom) Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, and (top right to bottom) Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana.Fires have been marked with red dots in the image...
Keywords: Where -- United States of America; Where -- Kansas; Where -- Oklahoma; Where -- Texas; Where -- Missouri; Where -- Arkansas
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| Growing-Season Fires in Central United States - Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center
Agricultural burning continues across the Central Plains of the United States on April 4, 2004. The fires, detected by the (MODIS) on the satellite have been marked with red dots in this image. The fires are concentrated in Kansas and Oklahoma (top left and bottom left), with additional fires in Missouri and Arkansas (top right and bottom right).The widespread nature of the fires and their location (generally located away from remaining natural vegetation, which appears deeper green) suggests th...
Keywords: Where -- United States of America; Where -- Kansas; Where -- Oklahoma; Where -- Missouri; Where -- Arkansas; Where -- Boston
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| Fires and Smoke in Central United States - Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
While ice still clings to the shores of Lakes Superior (top) and Michigan (bottom), spring’s green is creeping up from the south in this true-color (MODIS) from the satellite on April 11, 2003. Brush clearing and other fires probably related to agricultural activities were detected by MODIS and are marked with red dots. Fires are concentrated in Oklahoma (bottom left) and Kansas (to the north), but are scattered across other states as well...
Keywords: Where -- Michigan; Where -- Oklahoma; Where -- Kansas; Where -- United States of America
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| Fires in Central United States - Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
Agricultural burning in preparation for the growing season was underway in the central United States at the time this image was captured by the (MODIS) on the satellite on March 31, 2004. Across the dun-colored winter landscape, spring green is beginning to spread across the south-central parts of the country, including (top left to bottom) Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, and (top right to bottom) Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana.Fires have been marked with red dots in the image...
Keywords: Where -- United States of America; Where -- Kansas; Where -- Oklahoma; Where -- Texas; Where -- Missouri; Where -- Arkansas
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| Fires in Central United States - Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
Agricultural burning continues across the Central Plains of the United States on April 4, 2004. The fires, detected by the (MODIS) on the satellite have been marked with red dots in this image. The fires are concentrated in Kansas and Oklahoma (top left and bottom left), with additional fires in Missouri and Arkansas (top right and bottom right).The widespread nature of the fires and their location (generally located away from remaining natural vegetation, which appears deeper green) suggests th...
Keywords: Where -- United States of America; Where -- Kansas; Where -- Oklahoma; Where -- Missouri; Where -- Arkansas; Where -- Boston
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| Central United States - Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
A few scattered fires, marked in red, burned in Kansas (top) and Oklahoma (bottom) on July 13, 2004, when the (MODIS) on NASA’s satellite captured this image. A few gray spots show where cities are located in these two states. Kansas City sits in the top right corner on the border between Kansas and Missouri, and Oklahoma City is just below center in the middle of Oklahoma. Agricultural fields, which form regular green squares across both states, are clearly visible in the full resolution imag...
Keywords: Where -- Kansas; Where -- Oklahoma City; Where -- Missouri; Where -- Oklahoma; Where -- United States of America
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| Fires in the Southern United States - NASA image courtesy the Goddard Space Flight Center
On March 26, 2006, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s satellite captured an image of numerous fires burning across the Southern Plains in the United States. Fires (marked in red) were detected across parts of Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Missouri. According to news reports, some planned fires got out of control in Oklahoma and Kansas because of gusty winds.The high-resolution image provided above has a spatial resolution of 250 meters per pixel...
Keywords: Where -- United States of America; Where -- Kansas; Where -- Oklahoma; Where -- Arkansas; Where -- Missouri
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| Oklahoma Tornadoes - Image courtesy GOES project
Tornadoes in Oklahoma and Kansas on May 3, 1999, killed at least 40 people and caused over 500 million dollars in damages. One of the tornadoes was an F-5, the largest and most powerful classification. Although no direct measurement of windspeed is possible in such powerful storms, winds in an F-5 tornado are capable of topping 300 miles per hour.The GOES-East weather satellite produces images of most of the United States every 30 minutes in visible and infra-red wavelengths...
Keywords: What -- Earth; Where -- Oklahoma; Where -- Kansas; Where -- United States of America
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| Fires in the Great Plains: Natural Hazards - NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
In the plains south of Topeka, Kansas, on April 9, 2006, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer modis.gsfc.nasa.gov (MODIS) on NASA's terra.nasa.gov Terra satellite detected numerous fires burning. The larger image shows fires to the south in Oklahoma, as well. Marked in red in this photo-like satellite image, many of the fires are associated with dark-colored burn scars. MODIS cannot tell the cause of the fires it detects, but this area supports numerous ranches and farms and it is p...
Keywords: What -- Terra; Where -- Topeka; Where -- Kansas; Where -- Oklahoma; Where -- Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
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| Fires in the Southern Plains: Natural Hazards - NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
On April 6, 2008, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer modis.gsfc.nasa.gov (MODIS) on NASA's aqua.nasa.gov Aqua satellite detected dozens of fires burning across the Southern Plains states of Kansas and Oklahoma. Locations of fires are outlined in red, and dark brown burn scars make geometric shapes across the surrounding landscape, where fields and pastures are still dormant. This part of the southern plains is known as the Flint Hills, a stretch of tall-grass prairie that is predo...
Keywords: What -- Aqua; Where -- Kansas; Where -- Oklahoma; Where -- Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
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| Dust Storm over Colorado and Kansas: Natural Hazards - NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
Winds in excess of 30 miles per hour blew across most of the midwestern United States on April 18, 2004. This true-color scene shows a large dust storm blowing from eastern Colorado into western Kansas, as a result of the strong winds, measured at near hurricane force in this region. According to news reports, the storm reduced visibility at the surface to less than a mile and contributed to a number of car accidents in the region, including a 17-car pileup near Burlington, CO...
Keywords: What -- Terra; Where -- United States of America; Where -- Colorado; Where -- Kansas; Where -- Wisconsin; Where -- Madison
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| Stressed Crops in Ukraine and Russia: Natural Hazards - NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
Flat, fertile plains stretch northward from the Black Sea in Ukraine and southern Russia. With a climate similar to that of Kansas, roughly two-thirds of the Ukraine is agricultural land. The main crops in the region are wheat, barley, and corn. Most wheat (about 95 percent) is planted in the late fall and harvested in July and August of the following year. Across the border in southern Russia, winter wheat is similarly important...
Keywords: What -- Earth; Where -- Black Sea; Where -- Ukraine; Where -- Russia; Where -- Kansas; Where -- Maryland
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| Fires in the Great Plains: Natural Hazards - NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
In Kansas, dozens of active fires were burning when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer modis.gsfc.nasa.gov (MODIS) on NASA's terra.nasa.gov Terra satellite passed overhead on April 12, 2006. The fires are marked in red in the scene. The tan-and green-speckled landscape is darkened by burn scars as well. Many of these fires may be intentional fires set by people to clear ranch or farmland of brush for grazing, planting, or to reduce fire danger later in the season...
Keywords: What -- Terra; Where -- Kansas; Where -- United States of America; Where -- Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
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| Monarch Butterflies' Mexican Home : Image of the Day - NASA -- NASA image courtesy the rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center
Each fall, the monarch butterflies in the eastern United States undertake an epic migration from their summer breeding grounds as far north as Canada to central Mexico, where they cluster by the millions atop just 10 to 12 volcanic summits. In their winter colonies, the monarchs cling like ornaments to the trunks, branches, and needles of the oyamel fir trees, which only grow on the high slopes of certain mountains in central Mexico...
Keywords: What -- Terra; Where -- United States of America; Where -- Canada; Where -- Mexico City; Where -- Texas; Where -- Kansas
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| Snowstorms in Colorado: Natural Hazards - NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/17000/17808/colorado_tmo_2006359_lrg.jpg December 25, 2006 (Terra MODIS; 3.7 MB) eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/17000/17808/colorado_amo_2006344_lrg.jpg December 10, 2006 (Aqua MODIS; 3.5 MB) Coloradoans hoping for a white Christmas saw too much of a good thing in December 2006. On December 20 and 21, a blizzard buried much of the state in heavy snow...
Keywords: What -- Terra; What -- Aqua; What -- Earth; Where -- Denver; Where -- Colorado; Where -- Kansas; Where -- Nebraska; Where -- Arkansas
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| Snowstorm in the American Midwest: Natural Hazards - NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
The vernal equinox marks the start of spring in the Northern Hemisphere. But after a record-setting warm winter, the start of spring 2006 came with an ironic twist: a powerful snowstorm that blanketed most of the American Midwest in heavy snow. According to the Associated Press, snow fell as rapidly as two inches an hour in Illinois and Indiana, while in parts of Nebraska, total accumulations were as much as two feet (roughly 60 centimeters) of snow, closing sections of Interstate 80...
Keywords: What -- Aqua; What -- Earth; Where -- Illinois; Where -- Indiana; Where -- Nebraska; Where -- Colorado; Where -- Kansas
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| Fires in Central U.S.: Natural Hazards - NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
While ice still clings to the shores of Lakes Superior (top) and Michigan (bottom), spring's green is creeping up from the south in this true-color modis.gsfc.nasa.gov Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) from the aqua.nasa.gov Aqua satellite on April 11, 2003. Brush clearing and other fires probably related to agricultural activities were detected by MODIS and are marked with red dots...
Keywords: What -- Aqua; Where -- Michigan; Where -- Oklahoma; Where -- Kansas; Where -- Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
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