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The one closer to the lake is the Nyiragongo volcano, which erupted in January 2002, sending lava toward the lake shore and through the city of Goma. East of the rift, even more volcanoes are seen. These are the Virunga volcano chain, which is the home of the endangered mountain gorillas. Note that the terrain surrounding the volcanoes is much smoother than the eroding mountains that cover most of this view, such that topography alone is a good indicator of the extent of the lava flows.Elevation data used in this image was acquired by the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour, launched on Feb. 11, 2000. 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Working in concert with a satellite network of international partners, ESD can measure precipitation around the world, and it can employ its own constellation of small satellites to look into the eye of a hurricane. 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For more information, visit: oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi/image_archive.cgi?c=ALL || V20142881857.NorthernGulfOfMexico.jpg (3404x1638) [3.0 MB] || ocean-color-imagery.hwshow [309 bytes] || ", "hits": 234 }, { "id": 40415, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/whats-newwith-earth-today/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2015-01-04T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "What's New with Earth Today", "description": "Explore the latest visualizations of NASA's Earth Observing satellites and the data they collect. NASA researchers are constantly tracking remote-sensing data and modeling processes to better understand our home planet.", "hits": 193 }, { "id": 4162, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4162/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2014-04-23T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Drought may take a toll on Congo Rainforest, NASA Satellites Show", "description": "A new analysis of NASA satellite data shows that Africa's Congo rainforest, the second-largest tropical rainforest in the world, has undergone a large-scale decline in greenness over the past decade.The study, lead by Liming Zhou of University at Albany, State University of New York, shows that between 2000 and 2012, the decline affected an increasing amount of forest area and intensified. The research, published April 23 in Nature, is one of the most comprehensive observational studies to explore the effects of long-term drought on Congolese rainforests using several independent satellite sensors.Scientists use the satellite-derived \"greenness\" of forest regions as one indicator of a forest's health. While this study looks specifically at the impact of a persistent drought in the Congo region since 2000, researchers say that a continued drying trend might alter the composition and structure of the Congo rainforest, affecting its biodiversity and carbon storage.\"It's important to understand these changes because most climate models predict that tropical forests may be under stress due to increasing severe water shortages in a warmer and drier 21st century climate,\" Zhou said.Previous research used satellite-based measurements of vegetation greenness to investigate changes in the Amazon rainforest, notably the effects of severe short-term droughts in 2005 and 2010. Until now, little attention has been paid to African rainforests, where ground measurements are even sparser than in the Amazon and where droughts are less severe but last longer.To clarify the impact of long-term drought on the Congo rainforest, Zhou and colleagues set out to see if they could detect a trend in a satellite measure of vegetation greenness called the Enhanced Vegetation Index. This measure is developed from data produced by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA's Terra satellite. The scientists focused their analysis on intact, forested regions in the Congo basin during the months of April, May and June each year - the first of the area's two peak rainy and growing seasons each year.The study found a gradually decreasing trend in Congo rainforest greenness, sometimes referred to as \"browning,\" suggesting a slow adjustment to the long-term drying trend. This is in contrast to the more immediate response seen in the Amazon, such as large-scale tree mortality, brought about by more episodic drought events.The browning of the forest canopy is consistent with observed decreases in the amount of water available to plants, whether that's in the form of rainfall, water stored in the ground, water in near-surface soils, or water within the vegetation. || ", "hits": 67 }, { "id": 11004, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11004/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2012-06-18T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Mapping The Future With Landsat", "description": "Many non-profits are using Landsat as a tool to identify and protect areas that are important for conservation. This video shows how The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) has used Landsat in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to protect a wildlife corridor in the Maringa Lopori Wanga (MLW) region. This area is located in the northern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) immediately south of the Congo River. Within its borders are two major reserves: The Lomako-Yokokala Faunal Reserve and the Luo Scientific Reserve. Wildlife travels between these two reserves via a natural wildlife corridor. With Landsat, the AWF identified this corridor as a critical area for conservation and then began working with the DRC government and local communities to map the region. This process has had and will have significant impact on land use planning and zoning in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. || ", "hits": 24 }, { "id": 3960, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3960/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2012-06-15T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Saving the Maringa Lopori Wanga Wildlife Corridor", "description": "Maringa Lopori Wanga (MLW) is a region in the northern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) immediately south of the Congo River. Within its borders are two major reserves: The Lomako-Yokokala Faunal Reserve and the Luo Scientific Reserve. Wildlife travels between these two reserves via a natural wildlife corridor. However, a main road bisects this wildlife corridor between the two reserves, along which numerous villages have been established over time. If the corridor is to remain open, villagers living along the route need to control sprawl. This is where scientists have joined in to help, by providing detailed satellite imagery of the area, allowing the people of the MLW region to more accurately zone their land for agricultural expansion. By providing accurate satellite zoning maps, the villages can still thrive and the wildlife corridor can remain open, which benefits both the people and the wildlife of this region of the DRC.Part of NASA's Landsat program mission is to provide tools to assist with global growth and urbanization planning. NASA's Land-Cover and Land-Use Change Program (LCLUC) uses Landsat data to develop socially relevant interdisciplinary science that can be applied to natural resource management questions, starting with agricultural land use change. More information on the varied use of Landsat data can be found at http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/about/appl_matrix.html A fully narrated reporter package of this story, incorporating this element, can be seen here. || ", "hits": 19 }, { "id": 3961, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3961/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2012-06-15T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Zoom into the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)", "description": "This scene setting visualization zooms down to the jungles of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It was developed in support of the Mapping the Future With Landsat story. || ", "hits": 69 }, { "id": 10832, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10832/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2011-11-03T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "The Fire Continent", "description": "More fires burn in Africa each year than any other place on Earth. Collectively, these fires account for 70 percent of the total area burned by fire around the world. Humans set the majority of fires in Africa, burning land for farming and pastoral grazing. The practice is widespread and accepted by Africa's fire management community. Fire clears excess vegetation, creates new areas for cultivation and returns nutrients to the soils. Lightning fires, though not entirely uncommon, contribute much less to the total burning across the African landscape. At the beginning of the wet season, dry vegetation can readily ignite when struck by lightning. Such spontaneous ignitions can lead to wildfires that burn for days. The visualization below shows nearly a decade of fire observations throughout Africa collected by NASA satellites from July 2002 through July 2011. Watch how as the seasons shift from wet to dry, waves of fire sweep across the continent from the semi-arid grasslands and savannas just below the Sahara Desert in the north, to the equatorial forests in central Africa and lush landscapes of the south. || ", "hits": 46 }, { "id": 2353, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2353/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2002-01-18T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Lake Kivu Zoom-in", "description": "Zoom down to Lake Kivu, Rwanda, Africa. The northern tip of this lake is considered to be the most likely spot for the next deadly gas eruption (similar to the 1984 and 1986 eruptions at Lake Monoun and Lake Nyos respectively) due to its proximity to volcanically active areas to the north. For more information on similar gas eruptions please see animations #2346 and #2348. || ", "hits": 27 }, { "id": 2354, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2354/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2002-01-18T12:00:00-05:00", "title": "Lake Kivu Zoom-out", "description": "Zoom out from Lake Kivu, Rwanda, Africa to a global view of the African continent. 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But following three years of continual data collected by the SeaWiFS instrument, NASA has gathered the first record of photosynthetic productivity in the oceans. By taking three years of continuous data as a whole, experts have been able to map trends and anomalies in the global circulation of carbon to a degree of detail than has never been done before. It is a baseline measurement by which all future measurements will be compared. || ", "hits": 7 } ] }