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SeaWiFS: California Wild Fires
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NASA's Sea-Viewing Wide Field-of-View sensor (SeaWiFS) captured this striking image of large dust and smoke plumes blowing from Baja, California, February 10, 2002.
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Here and there amongst the yellowish brown dust plumes,
whiter smoke plumes are also visible, including a smaller one that appears to
be coming from the Fallbrook, California area. Eleven people were injured and
over thirty homes were destroyed in the town.SeaWiFS captured this image of
numerous large dust plumes blowing oceanward from Baja California, Mexico.
Duration: 4.0 seconds
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From space, the yellowish brown dust plumes and whiter smoke plumes are visible. SeaWiFS
keeps a ever vigal eye on the Earth, but not only does it see smoke, fires, and vegetation, it also sees the
ever changing oceans. Please take a few minutes and see the wonder of what is our home, Earth.
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A closer look at the yellowish brown dust plumes and whiter smoke plumes.
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| Animation Number: | 2386 |
| Animator: | Stuart A. Snodgrass (Lead) |
| Studio: | SVS |
| Completed: | 2002-02-12 |
| Scientist: | Gene Feldman (NASA/GSFC) |
| Instrument: | SeaStar/SeaWiFS |
| Data Collected: | 2002/02/10 |
| Series: | Fires |
| Video: | SVS2002-0001 * |
Keywords:
DLESE
>> Atmospheric science
SVS
>> Baja
DLESE
>> Environmental science
DLESE
>> Forestry
DLESE
>> Human geography
SVS
>> Smoke
GCMD
>> EARTH SCIENCE
>> Biosphere
>> Ecological Dynamics
>> Fire Occurrence
GCMD
>> Location
>> California
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Please give credit for this visualization to
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, The SeaWiFS Project and GeoEye, Scientific Visualization Studio. NOTE: All SeaWiFS images and data presented on this web site are for research and educational use only. All commercial use of SeaWiFS data must be coordinated with GeoEye (http://www.geoeye.com). |
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