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The First Day In The Life of Aqua/MODIS
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In its first day of operations, June 24, 2002, Aqua/MODIS observed significant Earth events occurring all over the globe. As Super Typhoon Chataan was rapidly approaching Japan, there was severe flooding in southeast Texas and a vast, thick pall of smoke from Canadian wildfires blanketed almost the entire U.S. East Coast. MODIS collected and beamed to Earth these images in very near real-time.
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Depicts where the images are that Aqua/MODIS captured during its first day in operation.
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This image shows two of the images (the U.S. East Coast covered in smoke and flooding in Texas) that were captured by MODIS.
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Video ID: SVS2002-0022 *
Animator: Greg Rhodes
Studio: SVS
Date Completed: August 13, 2002
Duration: 240 frames,
8.0 seconds
Scientist: David Herring (NASA/GSFC)
Instrument: Aqua/MODIS
Datasets: Blue Marble
Keywords: Texas, Floods, Typhoons, Canada, Fire
DLESESubject: Natural hazards, Atmospheric science, Technology
Data Collected: July 24, 2002
Animation Series: Aqua First Light
Please give credit for this visualization to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Scientific Visualization Studio
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