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Of particular interest are those images that illustrate the occurence of natural phenomenon or significant imagery. This may include forest fires, tropical or severe weather and other unique occurences captured. Selected images are posted here with a short description of the event. Where appropriate, higher resolution copies are included for detail.
Baja California
Meteor 3-5 on 12/28/02
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NOAA 17
09/10/02 15:56 UTC
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Meteor 3-5
09/10/02 16:42 UTC
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Tropical storm Gustav off the US east coast. Gustav has been moving northward at 8 knots with maximum sustained winds estimated at 50 knots, gust to 60 knots.
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NOAA 15 8/28/02
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The Manicouagan Crater
Thought to have happened around the Triassic Period (over 200 million years ago), lake Manicouagan was created by an asteroid estimated to have had a diameter of approx. 5 km and may have been responsible for a mass extinction in which many of the planet's species perished. Click on the image for a zoomed in high resolution (HRPT) image.
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Meteor 3-5 10/13/01
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Baffin Island
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NOAA 15 - 09/15/01 13:02 UTC
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This five minute pass is unique in that it represents one of the most distant passes captured which includes the eastern coast of Canada/US on a relatively cloud free day. Clearly visible are New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and PEI all the way down to Long Island, NY. Well over 3,000 km from the Monitoring Post.
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NOAA 14 - 09/09/01 13:21 UTC
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This infrared view of the Canadian/US west coast displays a few jet contrails.
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NOAA 15 August 9th, 2001 15:24 UTC
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Typically it's been rare to capture such a cloudless image yet the Rocky Mountains are clearly visible and except for some slight cloud coverage to the NW all of Vancouver Island is visible. Look for the valleys between the mountains where one can see the lakes and rivers. Also interesting is the snow covered peaks of Mt. Colombia on right side of the image along with several others nearer the west coast.
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NOAA 15 July 31, 2001
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Fires burning in Wyoming and South Dakota are indicated by the smoke plumes (red arrow) and heat signature (yellow arrow). The upper plume is the Elk Mountain Complex fire and the lower one of the Rogers Shack fire. Both fires combined have scorched an estimated 9,700 acres of National Forest.
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