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            "title": "50 Years of Harmful Algal Blooms: Florida Zoom",
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            "title": "Discovering Eurybates' Satellite",
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            "title": "How El Niño Impacts Marine Plant Life",
            "description": "El Niño years can have a big impact on the littlest plants in the ocean, and NASA scientists are studying the relationship between the two. Ocean color maps, based on a month’s worth of satellite data, show El Niño’s impact on phytoplankton. In El Niño years, huge masses of warm water – equivalent to about half of the volume of the Mediterranean Sea – slosh east across the Pacific Ocean towards South America. That mass of warm water puts a lid on the normal currents of cold, deep water that typically rise to the surface along the equator and off the coast of Chile and Peru.\"An El Niño basically stops the normal upwelling,\" Uz said. \"There’s a lot of starvation that happens to the marine food web.\" These small plants, called phytoplankton, are fish food – without them, fish populations drop, and the fishing industries that many coastal regions depend on can collapse. || ",
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            "title": "El Niño: Disrupting the Marine Food Web",
            "description": "This gallery was created for Earth Science Week 2015 and beyond. It includes a quick start guide for educators and first-hand stories (blogs) for learners of all ages by NASA visualizers, scientists and educators. We hope that your understanding and use of NASA's visualizations will only increase as your appreciation grows for the beauty of the science they portray, and the communicative power they hold. Read all the blogs and find educational resources for all ages at: the Earth Science Week 2015 page.In case you haven’t heard, El Niño is starting to make headlines this year. Often nicknamed \"the bad boy of weather,\" who is this guy?A long time ago, fishermen off the west coast of South America — one of the world's most productive fisheries — noticed that some years the fish disappeared. This was especially noticeable around Christmas time — giving it the name El Niño, which means Christ child in Spanish. Today we know why El Niño happens — but knowing when it will happen is still a challenge.  Normally, winds blow from east to west along the equator, pushing surface water westward. As the water moves away from the east, nutrient-rich deeper ocean water rises to fill the void (called upwelling.) When nutrients rise into sunlight, they cause blooms of tiny plants called phytoplankton. These plants feed the entire marine food web from small fish such as sardines to bigger fish, sea birds, and marine mammals. When an El Niño develops, the normal east-to-west winds die and warm surface water from the west Pacific moves eastward. This stops the upwelling in the east. Without the supply of deeper, nutrient-rich water, less phytoplankton bloom and the fisheries collapse. From satellites in space we see how these changes impact the ocean’s color. Normally, the ocean looks more green along the equator (image below, left.) During El Niño, the ocean looks more blue and less green because there is less plant life (images below, right.) While this color change is subtle to our eyes, it means life or death for the species that depend upon plankton for food. Some animals starve (e.g. sea lions, marine iguanas, Galapagos penguins) while others move away to look for food elsewhere. || ",
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            "title": "Zooming In: Remote Sensing the Earth",
            "description": "This gallery was created for Earth Science Week 2015 and beyond. It includes a quick start guide for educators and first-hand stories (blogs) for learners of all ages by NASA visualizers, scientists and educators. We hope that your understanding and use of NASA's visualizations will only increase as your appreciation grows for the beauty of the science they portray, and the communicative power they hold. Read all the blogs and find educational resources for all ages at: the Earth Science Week 2015 page.Observing something without coming in contact with it is called remote sensing. Think about that. Every living animal uses remote sensing. A spider keeps its eight eyes fixed on a fly, watches its movements.  A dolphin sends out sounds to locate a school of fish.  A tiger uses its Jacobson's organ to smell a mate. Humans listen to cicadas' loud noises coming from the trees. These are all examples of remote sensing. And, more than likely, all of these animals are analyzing the data they are receiving. I used these particular examples to show that there are different methods of receiving this data. The spider uses sight. The dolphin uses echolocation. The tiger uses smell. The human uses sound. I remember the first time I flew in an airplane. I was about 12 years old and was lucky enough to get a window seat. It was amazing to look down and try to identify things on the ground. I didn't realize it at the time but I was remotely sensing Earth! I could almost imagine how a bird must see the land when it's flying high in the sky. Since I cannot fly all the time like birds do, I can use another tool — Google Earth — to get the same experience. I can look at my computer screen, and identify the differences between urban and natural areas and between fields and forests. NASA creates the most amazing remotely-sensed images of space and the planets. I have always been fascinated by space and space exploration. In 1969, as I listened on my radio to the broadcast of the moon landing, I wondered what it would be like to walk on the moon and to look further out into space. Now, space telescopes, such as Hubble, provide scientists with hundreds of thousands of images for understanding our universe. Images of outer space are fascinating, but I am most excited about images of Earth. NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey have created an amazing collection of satellite images, called Earth as Art. Sometimes these almost look like art from a museum. These images are not only pleasing to look at; they can also tell us valuable information. || ",
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            "title": "SIGGRAPH 2015: VR Village",
            "description": "These visualizations were created for the planetarium dome show film called Dynamic Earth, produced by Tom Lucas in cooperation with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and Spitz, Inc.  Their format is in a fish-eye projection, called domemaster, which is why they look circular. In a dome, the image fills the dome's hemisphere so that the parts near the bottom of the image are low and in front of the viewer, the top of the image is behind the viewer, and the left and right sides are to the left and right of the viewer.  The domemaster format was created by rendering 7 separate 2048x2048 camera tiles: 6 at different rotational angles aroung the center axis and one looking overhead. The tiles were then reprojected and stitched together to form the final domemaster at a 4096x4096 resolution. || ",
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            "title": "Mystery Lights",
            "description": "While orbiting the planet in 2012, the NASA-NOAA Suomi NPP satellite detected something fishy off the coast of Argentina. About 200-300 miles offshore, a city of light appeared in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean. There are no human settlements there, nor fires or gas wells. But there are an awful lot of fishing boats. Adorned with lights for night fishing, the boats cluster at the intersection of the continental shelf, the nutrient-rich Malvinas Current and the borders of the exclusive economic zones of Argentina and the Falkland Islands. The night fishermen are working the second largest squid fishery on Earth, using the lights to draw plankton, fish and squid to the surface. Watch the video to see a collection of satellite views that show how the boats move slightly each night to follow squid. || ",
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            "id": 30479,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30479/",
            "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual",
            "release_date": "2013-11-12T13:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Coastal Dead Zones",
            "description": "The size and number of marine dead zones—areas where the deep water is so low in dissolved oxygen that sea creatures can’t survive—have grown explosively in the past half-century. Yellow circles on this map show the location of observed eutrophic zones. Red dots show where hypoxic zones have been observed.It’s no coincidence that dead zones occur downriver of places where land is intensively used for agriculture. Some of the fertilizer we apply to crops is washed into streams and rivers. Fertilizer-laden runoff triggers explosive planktonic algae growth in coastal areas. The algae die and rain down into deep waters, where their remains are like fertilizer for microbes. The microbes decompose the organic matter, using up the oxygen. Mass killing of fish and other sea life often results.Satellites can observe changes in the way the ocean surface reflects and absorbs sunlight when the water holds a lot of particles of organic matter. Darker blues in this image show higher concentrations of particulate organic matter, an indication of the overly fertile waters that can culminate in dead zones. || ",
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        {
            "id": 30293,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30293/",
            "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual",
            "release_date": "2013-10-21T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Bloom in the Ross Sea",
            "description": "Every southern spring and summer the Ross Sea bursts with life. Floating, microscopic plants, known as phytoplankton, soak up the sunlight and the nutrients and grow into prodigious blooms. Those blooms become a great banquet for krill, fish, penguins, whales, and other marine species. This true-color image captures such a bloom in the Ross Sea on January 22, 2011. Bright greens of plant-life have replaced the deep blues of open ocean water. The Ross Sea is a relatively shallow bay in the Antarctic coastline and due south from New Zealand. As the spring weather thaws the sea ice around Antarctica, areas of open water surrounded by ice—polynyas—open up on the continental shelf. In this open water, sunlight provides the fuel and various current systems provide nutrients from deeper waters to form blooms that can stretch 100 to 200 kilometers (60 to 120 miles). These blooms are among the largest in extent and abundance in the world. || ",
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        {
            "id": 3877,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3877/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2013-10-01T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Dynamic Earth Dome Show - Biosphere",
            "description": "This visualization was a prototype affiliated with the 'Dynamic Earth', an Earth science planetarium show. The visualization shows the global biosphere and NDVI from the SeaWiFS instrument with MODIS ice and snow overlayed.The images were rendered using a fish eye technique so that they would project properly onto a planetarium dome.Earth scientists are able to measure many of the Earth's 'vital signs', and just like a doctor measures our vital signs to see how healthy we are. Scientists will use these measurements of the Earth to better understand how the Earth functions, how the different systems on Earth interact and how those interactions have set the stage upon which life flourishes. The visualization shows a timeseries of images of SeaWiFS Global Biosphere - the ocean's long-term average phytoplankton chlorophyll concentration acquired between September 1997 and September 2007 combined with the SeaWiFS-derived Normalized Difference Vegetation Index over land. On land, the dark greens show where there is abundant vegetation and tans show relatively sparse plant cover. In the oceans, red, yellow, and green pixels show dense phytoplankton blooms, those regions of the ocean that are the most productive over time, while blues and purples show where there is very little of the microscopic marine plants called phytoplankton. Remote sensing, especially using satellite-mounted colour scanners (SeaWiFS and similar platforms), is advocated for broad-based monitoring of chlorophyll once appropriate algorithms have been developed and proved. The concentration of the photosynthetic pigment chlorophyll a (referred to as chlorophyll) in marine waters is a proven indicator of the biomass of phytoplankton, the organisms that constitute the base of the marine food web. Fluorometry provides an estimate of chlorophyll levels in sea water and thus an estimate of primary productivity in the upper part of the water column.For more information on monitoring the Earth from Space with SeaWIFS see http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/SeaWiFS/TEACHERS/. || ",
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        },
        {
            "id": 3879,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3879/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2013-10-01T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Wind and Ocean Circulation shot for Dynamic Earth Dome Show",
            "description": "This visualization was created for the planetarium dome show film called Dynamic Earth. It is rendered with a fish-eye projection, called domemaster, which is why it looks circular. In a dome, the image fills the dome's hemisphere so that the parts near the bottom of the image are low and in front of the view, the top of the image is behind the viewer, and the left and right sides are to the left and right of the viewer.The camera slowly pushes in towards the Earth revealing global wind patterns. The wind patterns are from the MERRA computational model of the atomsphere. As the camera continues to push in, the winds fade away, revealing ocean currents which are driven, in part, by the winds. The ocean currents are from the ECCO-2 computational model of the oceans and ice. Only the higher speed ocean currents are shown. The camera moves around the Western Atlantic highlighting the Gulf stream from above and below. The camera finally emerges from beneath sea level and moves over to the Gulf of Mexico to examine the Loop Current.This shot is designed to seamlessly match to the end of the Earth/CME shot (animation id #3551.). Topographic features are exaggerated 20 times above water and 40 times below water. The exaggeration is primarily to allow the viewer to distinguish the depths of the flow fields.This visualization was shown in the \"VR Village\" at SIGGRAPH 2015. || ",
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            "id": 30053,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30053/",
            "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual",
            "release_date": "2013-06-25T13:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Dead Sea Salt Farming",
            "description": "The Dead Sea is so named because its high salinity discourages the growth of fish, plants, and other wildlife. It is the lowest surface feature on Earth, sitting roughly 1,300 feet below sea level. On a hot, dry summer day, the water level can drop as much as one inch because of evaporation. These three false-color images were captured in 1972, 1989, and 2011 by Landsat satellites. Deep waters are blue or dark blue, while brighter blues indicate shallow waters or salt ponds. Green indicates sparsely vegetated lands. Denser vegetation appears bright red. The ancient Egyptians used salts from the Dead Sea for mummification, fertilizers, and potash (a potassium-based salt). In the modern age, sodium chloride and potassium salts culled from the sea are used for water conditioning, road de-icing, and the manufacturing of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastics. The expansions of massive salt evaporation projects are clearly visible over the span of 39 years. || ",
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            "id": 10495,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10495/",
            "result_type": "Produced Video",
            "release_date": "2009-10-09T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Marine Food Web",
            "description": "This conceptual animation illustrates some of the ecological pathways between species within the marine ecosystem. Single-celled microscopic plants called phytoplankton float in the upper ocean. These photosynthetic plants form the foundation of the marine food web, and nearly all life in the ocean depend upon them for survival, including microscopic zooplankton and whales. || foodweb_0701.00702_print.jpg (1024x563) [49.3 KB] || foodweb_0701_web.png (320x180) [162.0 KB] || foodweb_0701_thm.png (80x40) [11.1 KB] || MarineFoodWeb_appletv.webmhd.webm (960x540) [3.8 MB] || 1280x720_16x9_30p (1280x720) [32.0 KB] || MarineFoodWeb_appletv.m4v (960x540) [9.7 MB] || MarineFoodWeb_h264.mov (1280x720) [12.3 MB] || MarineFoodWeb_prores.mov (1280x720) [436.5 MB] || MarineFoodWeb_ipod.m4v (640x360) [5.3 MB] || foodweb.mp4 (320x176) [3.7 MB] || ",
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        {
            "id": 3399,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3399/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2007-01-23T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Dynamic Earth Dome Prototype: Hemisphere",
            "description": "This visualization was a prototype affiliated with the 'Dynamic Earth', a proposed Earth science planetarium show. The visualization shows the global biosphere from the SeaWiFS instrument with ice and snow overlayed.The images were rendered using a fish eye technique so that they would project properly onto a planetarium dome. || ",
            "hits": 37
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        {
            "id": 3400,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3400/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2007-01-23T00:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Dynamic Earth Dome Protoype: Fly Around",
            "description": "This visualization was a prototype affiliated with 'Dynamic Earth', a proposed Earth science planetarium show. The visualization shows a flyover of North America towards Greenland. MODIS Blue Marble data is initially used, then fading to SeaWiFS based biosphere data. MODIS based snow and ice are overlayed on the biosphere data.The images were rendered using a fish eye technique so that they would project properly onto a planetarium dome. The horizon was kept at approximately the 'sweet spot' based on typical viewer locations in a planetarium. || ",
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        },
        {
            "id": 3351,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3351/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2005-04-04T00:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "MODIS Sea Surface Temperature around the Australian Continent",
            "description": "The earliest technique for measuring Sea Surface Temperature (SST) was dipping a thermometer into a bucket of water. The first automated technique for determining SST was accomplished by measuring the temperature of water in the intake port of large ships. A large network of coastal buoys in U.S. waters is maintained by the National Data Buoy Center (NDBC). Since about 1990, there has also been an extensive array of moored buoys maintained across the equatorial Pacific Ocean designed to help monitor and predict the El Niño phenomenon. Since the 1980s satellites have been increasingly utilized to measure SST and have provided an enormous leap in our ability to view the spatial and temporal variation in SST. The satellite measured SST provides both a synoptic view of the ocean and a high frequency of repeat views, allowing the examination of basin-wide upper ocean dynamics not possible with ships or buoys. For example, a ship traveling at 10 knots (20 km/h) would require 10 years to cover the same area a satellite covers in two minutes.This animation uses SST data taken at nighttime from the MODIS/Aqua and MODIS/Terra satellites. This data has many important applications that permit scientists to use ocean temperatures to observe ocean circulation and locate major ocean currents. Ocean current analysis can facilitate ocean transportation. Additionally, by using SST, scientists can monitor changes in ocean temperatures and relate these to weather and climate changes like coral bleaching around the Great Barrier Reef. Finally, the SST changes have many important biological implications for hospitable/inhospitable conditions for many organisms including species of plankton, seagrasses, shellfish, fish, coral, and mammals. || ",
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        {
            "id": 20054,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20054/",
            "result_type": "Animation",
            "release_date": "2005-03-11T12:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Dead Zones",
            "description": "Dead zones are areas of water so devoid of oxygen that sea life cannot live there. If phytoplankton productivity is enhanced by fertilizers or other nutrients, more organic matter is produced at the surface of the ocean. The organic matter sinks to the bottom, where bacteria break it down and release carbon dioxide. Bacteria thrives off excessive organic matter and absorb oxygen, the same oxygen that fish, crabs and other sea creatures rely on for life. || deadzone_pre.00002_print.jpg (1024x768) [40.6 KB] || deadzone_thm.png (80x40) [8.7 KB] || deadzone_pre.jpg (320x240) [4.9 KB] || deadzone_pre_searchweb.jpg (320x180) [19.5 KB] || a010056_seq.webmhd.webm (960x540) [5.1 MB] || 720x486_4x3_29.97p (720x486) [32.0 KB] || a010056_seq.mpg (720x480) [14.2 MB] || a010056_H264_640x480.mp4 (640x480) [7.5 MB] || deadzone.mpg (320x240) [3.1 MB] || ",
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        {
            "id": 3113,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3113/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2005-02-17T12:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Rondonia Deforestation (WMS)",
            "description": "A animation of deforestation in Rondonia from 1975 through 2001 from Landsat imageryThis product is available through our Web Map Service. || rondonia.0002.png (1024x1024) [1.7 MB] || hw_a003113.png (640x27) [13.4 KB] || rondonia_pre.jpg (320x160) [12.1 KB] || rondonia_thm.png (80x40) [6.1 KB] || rondonia_pre_searchweb.jpg (320x180) [21.6 KB] || 1024x1024 (1024x1024) [0 Item(s)] || rondonia.webmhd.webm (960x540) [282.8 KB] || rondonia.mp4 (720x720) [606.2 KB] || rondonia.mpg (320x320) [737.0 KB] || ",
            "hits": 24
        },
        {
            "id": 3112,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3112/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2005-02-15T12:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Aral Sea Evaporation (WMS)",
            "description": "The Aral Sea is actually not a sea at all, but an immense fresh water lake. In the last thirty years, more than sixty percent of the lake has disappeared because much of the river flow feeding the lake was diverted to irrigate cotton fields and rice paddies. Concentrations of salts and minerals began to rise in the shrinking body of water, leading to staggering alterations in the lake's ecology and precipitous drops in the Aral's fish population. Powerful winds that blow across this part of Asia routinely pick up and deposit the now exposed lake bed soil. This has contributed to a significant reduction in breathable air quality, and crop yields have been appreciably affected due to heavily salt laden particles falling on arable land. This series of Landsat images taken in 1973, 1987 and 2000 show the profound reduction in overall area at the north end of the Aral, and a commensurate increase in land area as the floor of the sea now lies exposed. || ",
            "hits": 161
        },
        {
            "id": 2906,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2906/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2004-02-12T12:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Global Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies from June, 2002 to September, 2003 (WMS)",
            "description": "The temperature of the surface of the world's oceans provides a clear indication of the state of the Earth's climate and weather.  The AMSR-E instrument on the Aqua satellite measures the temperature of the top 1 millimeter of the ocean every day, even through the clouds.  If the average sea surface temperature for a particular date is subtracted from the measured temperature for that date, the resulting sea surface temperature anomaly can be used to accurately assess the current state of the oceans.  The anomaly can serve as an early warning system for weather phenomena and can be used to indicate forthcoming problems with fish populations and coral reef health.  In this visualization of the anomaly covering the period from June, 2002, to September, 2003, the most obvious effects are a successive warming and cooling along the equator to the west of Peru, the signature of an El Niño/La Niña cycle.  Around January 1, 2003, a cooler than normal region of the ocean appears in this region as part of a La Niña and flows westward, driven by the trade winds.  The waves that appear on the edges of this cooler area are called tropical instability waves. || ",
            "hits": 17
        },
        {
            "id": 2419,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2419/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2002-03-21T12:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Blackwater: SeaWiFS True Color",
            "description": "Scientists are baffled by a mysterious 'dead zone' in the Gulf of Mexico off southern Florida, an area normally rife with fish but described by fishermen now as fouled by murky waters and barren of marine life. || ",
            "hits": 13
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        {
            "id": 2420,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2420/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2002-03-21T12:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Blackwater: SeaWiFS False Color (Chlorophyll)",
            "description": "Scientists are baffled by a mysterious 'dead zone' in the Gulf of Mexico off southern Florida, an area normally rife with fish but described by fishermen now as fouled by murky waters and barren of marine life. || ",
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        {
            "id": 2422,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2422/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2002-03-21T12:00:00-05:00",
            "title": "Blackwater: SeaWiFS False Color (Chlorophyll) (Version 2)",
            "description": "Scientists are baffled by a mysterious 'dead zone' in the Gulf of Mexico off southern Florida, an area normally rife with fish but described by fishermen now as fouled by murky waters and barren of marine life. || ",
            "hits": 11
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        {
            "id": 2234,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2234/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2001-08-20T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Terra/MODIS Rapid-Response Fires: California Smoke Plumes",
            "description": "True color data on 8/13/01. || Animation of the fires along the California, Nevada, and Oregon tri-state border || a002234.00005_print.png (720x480) [527.4 KB] || CAsmoke_pre.jpg (320x184) [8.5 KB] || a002234.webmhd.webm (960x540) [13.7 MB] || a002234.dv (720x480) [215.3 MB] || a002234.mp4 (640x480) [12.0 MB] || CAsmoke.mpg (352x240) [7.9 MB] || ",
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        {
            "id": 2235,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2235/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2001-08-20T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Terra/MODIS Rapid-Response Fires: California Fires",
            "description": "Fire outlines for 8/18/01 in orange and yellow.  Burn scars from 8/13/01 to 8/17/01 are in black and gray.  Underlying true color image from 8/13/01.  Animation pans over the Trough, Fish, Blue Complex, and Quartz fires respectively. || ",
            "hits": 12
        },
        {
            "id": 2105,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2105/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2001-04-19T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Dramatic Evaporation of the Aral Sea",
            "description": "Disappearing Water: The Aral Sea Over Time (From 1973 to 2001) A time series is a powerful illustrative tool. Where in the case of Las Vegas we see the direct effects of people on the land, in the case of the Aral Sea, separating the countries of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, we see indirect, but no less dramatic effects on a different part of the world. The Aral Sea is actually not a sea at all. It is an immense lake, a body of fresh water, although that particular description of its contents might now be more a figure of speech than practical fact. In the last thirty years, more than sixty percent of the lake has disappeared. As you'll see in the visualization, the change over time is dramatic. In the 1970s, farmers and state offices opened significant diversions from the rivers supplying water to the lake, sending millions of gallons to irrigate cotton fields and rice paddies. So voluminous were these irrigation sluices that concentrations of salts and minerals began to rise in the shrinking body of water. That change in chemistry has led to staggering alterations in the lake's ecology, causing precipitous drops in the Aral's fish population. A secondary effect of this reduction in the Aral Sea's overall size is the rapid exposure of the lake bed. Powerful winds that blow across this part of Asia routinely pick up and deposit tens of thousands of tons of now exposed soil every year. This has not only contributed to significant reduction in breathable air quality for nearby residents, but also appreciably affected crop yields due to those heavily salt laden particles falling on arable land. In the following sequence of images, we see a series of Landsat scenes taken several years apart. As the years pass, we see the profound reduction in overall area covered by the Aral, and a commensurate increase in land area as the floor of the sea now lies exposed. || ",
            "hits": 78
        },
        {
            "id": 2106,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2106/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2001-04-19T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Deforestation of Rondonia, Brazil, from 1975 to 2001",
            "description": "Throughout much of the 1980s, deforestation in Brazil eliminated more than 15,000 square kilometers (9000 square miles) per year. That pace has only increased through the 90s and into the 21st century.Brazil is also home to more than a quarter of Earth's tropical forests. Considering that the band of lush green that circles the globe through many equatorial nations is fundamental to the overall health of the whole planet's environment, careful monitoring of forest health in the tropics is essential. Tropical forests act as major carbon 'sinks', places where ambient carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can be absorbed by growing things and sequestered for years. Definitive evidence shows that excess carbon dioxide can contribute to the greenhouse effect and speed global warming. Similarly, tropical forests also act as a primaryproducer of oxygen. In the respiration process that absorbs gaseous carbon dioxide, trees and other plants give off oxygen.It is for these and a host of other reasons why scientists and policy makers need to monitor and forestall wholesale deforestation.This sequence shows how profligate clear cutting can influence that trust. Data gathered over time by several in the Landsat series of spacecraft shows enormous tracts of forest disappearing in Rondonia, Brazil. This territory underwent an enormous rise in population towards the end of the twentieth century, buoyed by cheap land offered by the national government for agricultural use. As you see the visualization progress, it is useful to note how the human phenomenon of deforestation generally works, especially in the dense tropical forests of Brazil. Systematic cutting of a road opens new territory to potential deforestation by penetrating into new areas. Clearing of vegetation along the sides of those roads tends to fan out to create a pattern akin to a fish skeleton. As new paths appear in the woods, new areas become vulnerable. The spaces between the 'skeletal bones' fall to defoliation, and another inch of the Earth's biological rudder is no longer reliably steering the planet into the future. || ",
            "hits": 45
        },
        {
            "id": 2116,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2116/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2001-04-19T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Deforestation of Rondonia, Brazil (with dates), from 1975 to 2001",
            "description": "Throughout much of the 1980s, deforestation in Brazil eliminated more than 15,000 square kilometers (9000 square miles) per year. That pace has only increased through the 90s and into the 21st century.Brazil is also home to more than a quarter of Earth's tropical forests. Considering that the band of lush green that circles the globe through many equatorial nations is fundamental to the overall health of the whole planet's environment, careful monitoring of forest health in the tropics is essential. Tropical forests act as major carbon 'sinks', places where ambient carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can be absorbed by growing things and sequestered for years. Definitive evidence shows that excess carbon dioxide can contribute to the greenhouse effect and speed global warming. Similarly, tropical forests also act as a primaryproducer of oxygen. In the respiration process that absorbs gaseous carbon dioxide, trees and other plants give off oxygen.It is for these and a host of other reasons why scientists and policy makers need to monitor and forestall wholesale deforestation.This sequence shows how profligate clear cutting can influence that trust. Data gathered over time by several in the Landsat series of spacecraft shows enormous tracts of forest disappearing in Rondonia, Brazil. This territory underwent an enormous rise in population towards the end of the twentieth century, buoyed by cheap land offered by the national government for agricultural use. As you see the visualization progress, it is useful to note how the human phenomenon of deforestation generally works, especially in the dense tropical forests of Brazil. Systematic cutting of a road opens new territory to potential deforestation by penetrating into new areas. Clearing of vegetation along the sides of those roads tends to fan out to create a pattern akin to a fish skeleton. As new paths appear in the woods, new areas become vulnerable. The spaces between the 'skeletal bones' fall to defoliation, and another inch of the Earth's biological rudder is no longer reliably steering the planet into the future. || ",
            "hits": 71
        },
        {
            "id": 2117,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/2117/",
            "result_type": "Visualization",
            "release_date": "2001-04-19T12:00:00-04:00",
            "title": "Dramatic Evaporation of the Aral Sea (With Dates)",
            "description": "Disappearing Water: The Aral Sea Over Time (From 1973 to 2001) A time series is a powerful illustrative tool. Where in the case of Las Vegas we see the direct effects of people on the land, in the case of the Aral Sea, separating the countries of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, we see indirect, but no less dramatic effects on a different part of the world. The Aral Sea is actually not a sea at all. It is an immense lake, a body of fresh water, although that particular description of its contents might now be more a figure of speech than practical fact. In the last thirty years, more than sixty percent of the lake has disappeared. As you'll see in the visualization, the change over time is dramatic. In the 1970s, farmers and state offices opened significant diversions from the rivers supplying water to the lake, sending millions of gallons to irrigate cotton fields and rice paddies. So voluminous were these irrigation sluices that concentrations of salts and minerals began to rise in the shrinking body of water. That change in chemistry has led to staggering alterations in the lake's ecology, causing precipitous drops in the Aral's fish population. A secondary effect of this reduction in the Aral Sea's overall size is the rapid exposure of the lake bed. Powerful winds that blow across this part of Asia routinely pick up and deposit tens of thousands of tons of now exposed soil every year. This has not only contributed to significant reduction in breathable air quality for nearby residents, but also appreciably affected crop yields due to those heavily salt laden particles falling on arable land. In the following sequence of images, we see a series of Landsat scenes taken several years apart. As the years pass, we see the profound reduction in overall area covered by the Aral, and a commensurate increase in land area as the floor of the sea now lies exposed. || ",
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}