Unique observations of Earth’s vegetation are coming down from the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite. Scientists from the University of Arizona and Boston ...

Note: You should only turn on one of these layers at a time or they may interfere. Implementing transparency on the blank spots in the MODIS satellite would allow the rest of the Earth to show through ...

Since its eruption in early June, several NASA satellites have captured images of the ash plume from the eruption of the Chilean Volcano called Puyehue-Cordón Caulle and have tracked it around the ...

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The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS, is an instrument that flies on NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites and provides incredible views of tropical cyclones like Hurricane Igor, from ...

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instruments on sister satellites in Earth orbit. Like its twin flying aboard NASA’s Terra satellite — launched in 1999 — Aqua MODIS sees almost the entire surface of our planet every day in 36 ...