Imagery in the News

Sandy vs. Katrina Comparing Two Monster Storms The scenes of devastation and wreckage that Superstorm Sandy (2012) and Hurricane Katrina (2005) left behind were tragically similar. But from a meteorological perspective, satellite data reveal the storms were very...

Saudi Crops Flourish in the Desert

In this series of Landsat images, sensors detected light reflecting off Earth in the short wave-infrared, near-infrared and green portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. With this combination of wavelengths, new vegetation appears bright green while dry vegetation...

NASA Releases First Global VIIRS Image

NASA Releases First Global VIIRS Image

From its vantage 824 kilometers (512 miles) above Earth, the Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) satellite gets a complete view of our planet every day. This image from Nov. 24, 2011, is the first complete global...

Imagery in the News

Flooding Continues Along the Missouri River Floods advanced down the Missouri River at the end of June 2011, swelling the river significantly from Sioux City, Iowa, to Leavenworth, Kan. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor on NASA’s Aqua...

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