The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, located in Katmai National Park, forms a unique and ashen landscape. Encircled by volcanoes – both active and inactive – it has served as a perfect collection area for huge amounts of volcanic ash.
Water departments in the West are using maps and models originally created by a NASA team to help track water.
NASA and Google broadened an existing partnership to help local governments improve their monitoring and prediction of air quality for better decision making.
Hurricane Fred is the first to hit Cabo Verde since 1892. The storm caused flash flooding and wind damage.
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on Terra acquired this natural-color image of Fred off the west coast Africa at 11:15 a.m. on August 31, 2015 Cabo Verde time, when the storm was at it’s peak Wind speeds reached 75 knots.
The MODIS instrument on Terra also captured images on September 1st as Fred weakened, becoming a tropical storm.