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            "release_date": "2014-06-03T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Coccolithophores Near the Patagonia Shelf",
            "description": "Coccolithophores, a type of phytoplankton, are one-celled, microscopic marine plants that live in large numbers throughout the upper layers of the ocean. They surround themselves with minute calcium carbonate plates called “coccoliths,” which are highly reflective such that populations of these plants can be seen from space. Near the Patagonia Shelf, located east of Argentina and Uruguay, ocean waters thrive with high concentrations of microscopic phytoplankton—e.g., coccolithiphores, dinoflagellates, and diatoms to name a few. That is because in this region the warm, saline, southward-flowing Brazil Current flows past and mixes with the cool, less-saline, nutrient-rich northward-flowing Falklands/Malvinas Current, creating an ideal environment for biological productivity. Scientists use true color satellite images like these, taken by Aqua/MODIS from December 15, 2010 to February 15, 2011, to observe the recurring coccolithophore blooms in the Patagonia Shelf region and study the impacts of ocean acidification on these microscopic organisms. Imagery from these two months shows a coccolithophore bloom (turquoise) near the shelf break. The shelf's unique ecosystem supports important fisheries in the region, providing a favorable reproductive habitat for anchovies and sardines. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3348/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2009-09-20T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Aqua Satellite and MODIS Swath",
            "description": "NASA's Aqua satellite was launched on May 4, 2002 with six Earth-observing instruments on board. Aqua circles the Earth every 99 minutes and is in a polar orbit, passing within ten degrees of each pole on every orbit. The orbit is sun-synchronous, meaning that the satellite always passes over a particular part of the Earth at about the same local time each day. Aqua always crosses the equator from south to north at about 1:30 PM local time. One of the instruments on Aqua, MODIS, measures 36 spectral frequencies of light reflected off the Earth in a 2300-kilometer wide swath along this orbit, so that MODIS measures almost the entire surface of the Earth every day.The first animation shows the Aqua satellite orbiting for one day, August 27, 2005, showing a set of MODIS measurements taken that day that have been processed to look like a a true-color image of the Earth. Notice that MODIS only takes data during the dayside part of the orbit because it measures reflected light from the Sun, and that there is a bright band of reflected sunlight in the center of swaths over the ocean. Also visible in this animation are Hurricane Katrina, just to the west of Florida in the Gulf of Mexico, and Typhoon Talim, in the western Pacific between Japan and New Guinea.The second animation spans five days of Aqua orbits, from August 27, 2005 through August 31, 2005. For this animation, the orbits and data are shown over an Earth image that shows the day and night parts of the Earth at each time of the animation. The daylight part of the Earth is a cloud-free MODIS composite, while the nighttime regions show the 'city lights', the Earth's stable light sources. During the first day, August 27, the Aqua satellite is shown with a red line indicating the orbit of the satellite. Since the Earth's surface is stationary in this animation, the satellite orbit moves westward with the sun. During the second day, August 28, the most recent observation swath is shown in addition to the satellite orbit line. In this way , the drift of th orbit relative to the observations is illustrated. Starting with the third day, August 29, the orbit line disappears and the observation swaths accumulate. The observations cover the Earth during the third day except for small gaps at the equator, which are filled in during the fourth day, August 30. The animation continues to show the MODIS observations through August 31, the fifth day.The third animation shows the same composition as the second one, but the point of view has changed to that of the Sun. In this animation, the Earth rotates and the orbit is stationary. At this date, the North Pole of the Earth is tilted towards the Sun and in daylight, while the South Pole is tilted away and is in darkness. || ",
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            "id": 3628,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3628/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2009-07-17T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Galapagos Islands Flyby",
            "description": "Straddling the equator approximately 1000 kilometers to the west of the South American mainland, the Galapagos Islands lie within the heart of the equatorial current system.  Rising from the sea floor, the volcanic islands of the Galapagos are set on top of a large submarine platform.  The main portion of the Galapagos platform is relatively flat and less than 1000 meters in depth.  The steepest slopes are found along the western and southern flanks of the platform with a gradual slope towards the east.  The interactions of the Galapagos and the oceanic currents create vastly different environmental regimes which not only isolates one part of the Archipelago from the other but allows penguins to live along the equator on the western part of the Archipelago and tropical corals around the islands to the north.  The islands are relatively new in geologic terms with the youngest islands in the west still exhibiting periodic eruptions from their massive volcanic craters. || ",
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            "id": 3321,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3321/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2006-04-17T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Aqua MODIS True Color Progression during Hurricane Katrina",
            "description": "The Aqua satellite orbits the Earth every 99 minutes in a polar, sun-synchronous orbit.  The MODIS instrument on Aqua observes reflected light from the Earth in 36 spectral frequencies.  These observations can be processed to show many properties of the Earth's surface, from temperature and phytoplankton measurements near the surface of the ocean to fire occurrences and land cover characteristics on the land surface.This animation shows about 4 days of MODIS data from individual Aqua orbits processed to look like true-color photographs of the planet's surface.  For this animation the data is accumulated and so builds up a complete picture of the surface of the Earth except around the South Pole, which is in darkness during this entire 4-day period. || ",
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            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3322/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2006-04-17T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "MODIS True Color Swaths during Hurricane Katrina",
            "description": "The Aqua satellite orbits the Earth every 99 minutes in a polar, sun-synchronous orbit.  The MODIS instrument on Aqua observes reflected light from the Earth in 36 spectral frequencies.  These observations can be processed to show many properties of the Earth's surface, from temperature and phytoplankton measurements near the surface of the ocean to fire occurrences and land cover characteristics on the land surface.This animation shows about 4 days of MODIS data from individual Aqua orbits processed to look like true-color photographs of the planet's surface. || ",
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            "id": 3320,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3320/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2006-04-12T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Aqua MODIS True Color Granules during Hurricane Katrina",
            "description": "The Aqua satellite orbits the Earth every 99 minutes in a polar, sun-synchronous orbit.  The MODIS instrument on Aqua observes reflected light from the Earth in 36 spectral frequencies.  These observations can be processed to show many properties of the Earth's surface, from temperature and phytoplankton measurements near the surface of the ocean to fire occurrences and land cover characteristics on the land surface.The MODIS observations start out divided into 5-minute sections called granules, and this animation shows about 4 days of MODIS granules processed to look like true-color photographs of the planet's surface. || ",
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