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Re: Earth from space: image of the week
« Reply #60 on: 08/01/2007 04:57 pm »
More than 11 000 people have been evacuated from two of Spain's Canary Islands - Tenerife and Gran Canaria - as firefighters try to get the blazes under control, according to local authorities.

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Re: Earth from space: image of the week
« Reply #61 on: 08/04/2007 10:55 am »
Winter snow blankets the heights of the Drakensberg Mountains in Lesotho in this Envisat image acquired over southern Africa.

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Re: Earth from space: image of the week
« Reply #62 on: 08/10/2007 11:25 am »
This Envisat radar image highlights the recent flooding in Bangladesh and parts of India brought on by two weeks of persistent rain.
 
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Re: Earth from space: image of the week
« Reply #63 on: 08/17/2007 12:06 pm »
Canada’s James Bay is featured in this Envisat image. James Bay, the southern inlet of Hudson Bay in eastern Canada, is located between the provinces of Quebec (right) and Ontario (left), Canada.

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RE: Earth from space: image of the week
« Reply #64 on: 08/21/2007 02:20 pm »
ESA satellites are tracking the path of Hurricane Dean as it rips across the Caribbean Sea carrying winds as high as 260 km per hour. The hurricane, which has already claimed eight lives, is forecast to slam into Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula on Tuesday morning.

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Re: Earth from space: image of the week
« Reply #65 on: 08/23/2007 11:50 am »
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Rocket Ronnie - 15/9/2006  3:11 PM

Anyone seen on of the UK from the Shuttle?

I have a movie clip of the South of England somewhere about. I'll post it on here...
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RE: Earth from space: image of the week
« Reply #66 on: 08/23/2007 12:11 pm »
Found it. I think it's STS111. Endeavour, 2002.

This is London and my home - Southampton, at night. Short but a nice clip. I added the text myself. I was adding the footage to a movie I sent to an ex who was on Ops in the Balkans with the Army at the time.
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RE: Earth from space: image of the week
« Reply #67 on: 08/24/2007 10:55 am »
This Envisat image highlights Japan, which consists of a string of islands stretching for some 2400 km through the western Pacific Ocean.

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Re: Earth from space: image of the week
« Reply #68 on: 08/27/2007 08:52 pm »
Hot spots across Southeastern Europe from 21 to 26 August have been detected with instruments aboard ESA satellites, which have been continuously surveying fires burning across the Earth's surface for a decade.

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RE: Earth from space: image of the week
« Reply #69 on: 08/31/2007 09:50 am »
This Envisat image taken on 30 August 2007 captures the devastation to Greece's landscape after blazes burned out of control for a week, killing more than 60 people.

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Re: Earth from space: image of the week
« Reply #70 on: 08/31/2007 05:17 pm »
Check out this neat new image from Bigelow Aerospace's Genesis II:

http://www.bigelowaerospace.com/images/how_did_they_do_it.jpg

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Re: Earth from space: image of the week
« Reply #71 on: 09/07/2007 02:01 pm »
The port of Rotterdam and the province of Zeeland, both located in the southwest of the Netherlands, are highlighted in this Envisat image.

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Re: Earth from space: image of the week
« Reply #72 on: 09/14/2007 03:39 pm »
This Envisat image features the Republic of Guinea-Bissau located in Western Africa. With an area of 36 125 sq km, it is one of the smallest nations in continental Africa.

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Re: Earth from space: image of the week
« Reply #73 on: 09/17/2007 04:04 pm »
The area covered by sea ice in the Arctic has shrunk to its lowest level this week since satellite measurements began nearly 30 years ago, opening up the Northwest Passage - a long-sought short cut between Europe and Asia that has been historically impassable.

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Re: Earth from space: image of the week
« Reply #74 on: 09/21/2007 11:39 am »
This Envisat image highlights several of the lakes in the southeastern part of the Republic of Kazakhstan and in the northeastern area of Kyrgyzstan.

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Re: Earth from space: image of the week
« Reply #75 on: 10/03/2007 09:51 am »
This Envisat image highlights an ice-free Foxe Basin - a nearly circular shallow extension of the Atlantic Ocean - located in the Canadian territory of Nunavut.

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Re: Earth from space: image of the week
« Reply #76 on: 10/05/2007 11:00 am »
This image acquired by Envisat's Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer (AATSR) instrument dramatically illustrates the complexity of the thermal currents at play in the Southern Mediterranean off the coast of Northern Libya.

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Re: Earth from space: image of the week
« Reply #77 on: 10/12/2007 02:07 pm »
This Envisat image highlights the orange autumn foliage of the forested areas in the basin of Lake Superior (image centre), one of the five Great Lakes located in the heart of eastern North America.

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Re: Earth from space: image of the week
« Reply #78 on: 10/19/2007 02:18 pm »
This animation, comprised of images acquired by Envisat's Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) instrument, shows the breaking away of a giant iceberg from the Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica. Spanning 34 km in length by 20 km in width, the new iceberg covers an area nearly half the size of Greater London.

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RE: Earth from space: image of the week
« Reply #79 on: 10/22/2007 04:51 pm »
This Envisat image captures the smoke arising from raging wildfires burning in Los Angeles, California. Nearly a dozen wildfires driven by strong easterly winds ripped across Southern California on Sunday, killing one person and forcing thousands to evacuate their homes.

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