Aqua/MODIS First Day

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Scientific Visualization Studio

The First Day In The Life of Aqua/MODIS

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.

Depicts where the images are that Aqua/MODIS captured during its first day in operation.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Terra/MODIS

  • Animation ID

    2499

  • Video ID

    SVS2002-0022

  • Start Timecode

    01:04:35:00

  • End Timecode

    01:05:12:08

  • Animator

    Greg Rhodes

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    2002/08/13

  • Scientist

    David Herring (NASA/GSFC)

  • Datasets

    Blue Marble

  • Keywords

    Texas, Floods, Typhoons, GCMD--Location--Canada, Fire

  • DLESE Subject

    Natural hazards, Atmospheric science, Technology

  • Data Date

    July 24, 2002

  • Animation Type

    Regular