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Image of the Week Archive — May 2006
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Measuring Earth Science
May 28, 2006 —
The image shows the exponential rate of publication from the ISI citation web site on "MODIS and aerosol" starting around 1992. (In the background is a photograph of the Terra launch on December 18, 1999). Earth science is about understanding our planet. . . . [continued]
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Correlation between horizonal cloud size and fractional cloud coverage
May 14, 2006 —
This image combines possibly the first global map of horizontal cloud size with the concurrent map of fractional cloud coverage. Both maps are based on MODerate resolution Imaging Spectral radiometer (MODIS) observations from June to August 2005. In many . . . [continued]
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Asian Dust Transported over Clouds
May 7, 2006 —
This April 7, 2006 image showing dust being carried East from Asia is actually an RGB mosaic of two orbits of radiance data from the Aqua MODIS instrument. This dust outbreak is one of many that typically occur during M . . . [continued]
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