Lake Monoun Zoom-in
On August 8, 1984 37 people from the villages surrounding Lake Monoun, Cameroon, Africa were found mysteriously dead. First reports pointed to man made terrorist activity but it soon became clear that this was a natural event; somehow or other the lake had exploded, releasing huge volumes of a poisonous, invisible gas.
Animation zoom down to 15 m. Landsat-7 data (bands 3, 2, 1) of Lake Monoun taken on 2-5-2001
15 meter Landsat-7 data of Lake Monoun.
Video slate image reads "Lake Monoun Zoom-in: Zoom down sequence to Lake Monoun, Cameroon, Africa. On August 8, 1984, mysterious gas emissions from the lake killed 37 people in neighboring villages".
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animator
- Alex Kekesi (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Scientists
- George Kling (University of Michigan)
- Bill Evans (USGS)
Release date
This page was originally published on Thursday, January 10, 2002.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:57 PM EDT.
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[Landsat-7: ETM+]
ID: 55This dataset can be found at: http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/about/wrs.html
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[GTOPO30]
ID: 415
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