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Images & Animations
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Credit
Image courtesy Jesse Allen, based on data from the MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC
Heavy rains caused deadly flash floods in Iran.
- Large images: <LI>January 12, 2004 (2.9 Mb JPEG) <LI>November 7, 2003 (2.7 Mb JPEG)
The same storm flooded much of Iran’s western coastal region, claiming the lives of at least six people. To the northwest, over 8000 have been forced to flee as irrigation canals in the marshlands around Nasiriya, Iraq overflow.
The high-resolution images provided above are at MODIS’ maximum resolution of 250 meters per pixel.
Metadata
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Sensor
Terra/MODIS -
Start Date
2004-01-12 -
Event Start Date
2004-01-11 -
NH Image ID
11904 -
NH Event ID
10245 -
NH Posting Date
2004-01-13