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Harvey | International Space Station
Hurricane in Gulf of Mexico photographed from cupola window in orbit
On August 25, 2017, NASA astronaut Jack Fischer photographed Hurricane Harvey from the cupola module aboard the International Space Station as it intensified on its way toward the Texas coast. The Expedition 52 crew on the station had been tracking this storm for the previous two days and capturing Earth observation photographs and videos from their vantage point in low Earth orbit.
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Image Date: August 25, 2017
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Hurricane in Gulf of Mexico photographed from cupola window in orbit
On August 25, 2017, NASA astronaut Jack Fischer photographed Hurricane Harvey from the cupola module aboard the International Space Station as it intensified on its way toward the Texas coast. The Expedition 52 crew on the station had been tracking this storm for the previous two days and capturing Earth observation photographs and videos from their vantage point in low Earth orbit.
Credit: NASA/JSC
Image Date: August 25, 2017
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+University of Leicester’s National Centre of #EarthObservation welcomes the completion of Sentinel 5-Precursor #satellite
Sentinel-5 Precursor is part of the global monitoring programme for environment and security (Copernicus), a joint undertaking of the European Commission and the European Space Agency (ESA), and it will be the first satellite of the Copernicus programme to provide essential air-quality and atmospheric chemistry data.
http://news.europawire.eu/university-of-leicesters-national-centre-of-earth-observation-welcomes-the-completion-of-sentinel-5-precursor-satellite/eu-press-release/2017/07/21/
Sentinel-5 Precursor is part of the global monitoring programme for environment and security (Copernicus), a joint undertaking of the European Commission and the European Space Agency (ESA), and it will be the first satellite of the Copernicus programme to provide essential air-quality and atmospheric chemistry data.
http://news.europawire.eu/university-of-leicesters-national-centre-of-earth-observation-welcomes-the-completion-of-sentinel-5-precursor-satellite/eu-press-release/2017/07/21/
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The Euphrates River | International Space Station
Image captured by ESA Astronaut Paolo Nespoli of Italy
The Euphrates is the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of Western Asia. Together with the Tigris, it is one of the two defining rivers of Mesopotamia (the "Land between the Rivers"). Originating in eastern Turkey, the Euphrates flows through Syria and Iraq to join the Tigris in the Shatt al-Arab, which empties into the Persian Gulf. (Source: Wikipedia)
Credit: ESA/NASA
Release Date: September 1, 2017
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Image captured by ESA Astronaut Paolo Nespoli of Italy
The Euphrates is the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of Western Asia. Together with the Tigris, it is one of the two defining rivers of Mesopotamia (the "Land between the Rivers"). Originating in eastern Turkey, the Euphrates flows through Syria and Iraq to join the Tigris in the Shatt al-Arab, which empties into the Persian Gulf. (Source: Wikipedia)
Credit: ESA/NASA
Release Date: September 1, 2017
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Pale Blue Dot | International Space Station
ESA Astronaut Paolo Nespoli of Italy: "A pale blue dot."
Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles, 40.5 AU), as part of the Family Portrait series of images of the Solar System.
In the photograph, Earth's apparent size is less than a pixel; the planet appears as a tiny dot against the vastness of space, among bands of sunlight scattered by the camera's optics.
Voyager 1, which had completed its primary mission and was leaving the Solar System, was commanded by NASA to turn its camera around and take one last photograph of Earth across a great expanse of space, at the request of astronomer and author Carl Sagan. (Source: Wikipedia)
Credit: ESA/NASA
Image Date: August 5, 2017
Release Date: August 31, 2017
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ESA Astronaut Paolo Nespoli of Italy: "A pale blue dot."
Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles, 40.5 AU), as part of the Family Portrait series of images of the Solar System.
In the photograph, Earth's apparent size is less than a pixel; the planet appears as a tiny dot against the vastness of space, among bands of sunlight scattered by the camera's optics.
Voyager 1, which had completed its primary mission and was leaving the Solar System, was commanded by NASA to turn its camera around and take one last photograph of Earth across a great expanse of space, at the request of astronomer and author Carl Sagan. (Source: Wikipedia)
Credit: ESA/NASA
Image Date: August 5, 2017
Release Date: August 31, 2017
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NASA Examines Hurricane Lidia’s Eye on the Baja
Image: NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed over Hurricane Lidia on Aug. 31 at 4:24 p.m. EDT (2024 UTC) when the eye was just southwest of the southern tip of Baja California.
Sept. 1, 2017: Hurricane Lidia’s eye was visible in NASA satellite imagery as it approached Baja California, Mexico’s southernmost tip. Hurricane Lidia was making landfall on the Baja on Sept. 1 at 5 a.m. PDT and continued to bring soaking rains to the region.
NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed over Hurricane Lidia on Aug. 31 at 4:24 p.m. EDT (2024 UTC). The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument aboard took a visible light picture of the storm when the eye was just southwest of the southern tip of Baja California. Thunderstorms in Lidia’s eastern quadrant had already spread over mainland Mexico.
Earlier in the day, NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over Lidia and analyzed the storm in infrared light as it strengthened quickly. Infrared data provides temperature information and the highest, coldest cloud tops in tropical cyclones indicate where the strongest storms are located. NASA’s AIRS instrument provides that critical temperature information.
Lidia is a large system. Tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 195 miles (315 km), especially to the northeast and southeast of the center. This large system’s most powerful thunderstorms surrounded the center of circulation. Some of the coldest cloud top temperatures exceeded minus 81 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 63 degrees Celsius). Storms with temperatures that cold are high in the troposphere and NASA research has shown they have the ability to generate heavy rain.
On Sept. 1, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said a Tropical Storm Warning was in effect for Baja California peninsula from San Jose de Las Palomas to Isla San Luis and for the mainland Mexico from Altata to Puerto Libertad.
At 5 a.m. PDT (8 a.m. EDT/1200 UTC) on Sept. 1, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said that the center of Lidia was moving onshore into Baja California Sur, Mexico and the heavy rains were continuing. The center of Tropical Storm Lidia was located near latitude 24.1 North, longitude 111.1 West.
Lidia was moving toward the northwest near 8 mph (13 kph), and NHC said this motion with an increase in forward speed is expected through Saturday night, Sept.2. Maximum sustained winds are near 65 mph (100 kph) with higher gusts. Weakening is forecast during the next couple of days while Lidia interacts with the mountainous terrain of the Baja California peninsula. The estimated minimum central pressure is 988 millibars.
As Lidia was moving over land on Sept. 1, infrared data showed that cloud top temperatures have been warming during the early morning hours. In addition NHC said that Lidia’s convective pattern appears to be losing some organization as the storm interacts with the high terrain of Baja California Sur.
Rainfall expected may reach up to a foot in some areas. Lidia is expected to produce total rain accumulations of 6 to 12 inches across the Mexican states of Baja California Sur into Baja California, Sinaloa, and the coastal section of Sonora, with isolated maximum amounts of 20 inches. These rains may cause life-threatening flash floods and mudslides.
On the forecast track, the center of Lidia will move near or along the west coast of the Baja California peninsula through Saturday and then move west of the peninsula over the Pacific waters Saturday night when it is expected to become a remnant low pressure area. NHC noted that “some of the tropical moisture from Lidia may reach parts of the desert U.S. Southwest this holiday weekend, including southern California, southern Nevada, and southwestern Arizona.
For updates on Lidia, visit: www.nhc.noaa.gov
Credit: NOAA/NASA Goddard Rapid Response Team
Release Date: September 1, 2017
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#NASA #NOAA #Earth #Science #Space #Satellite #Hurricane #Lidia #Pacific #Ocean #Baja #California #Mexico #UnitedStates #Weather #Storm #EarthObservation #SuomiNPP #VIIRS #Goddard #GSFC #STEM #Education
Image: NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed over Hurricane Lidia on Aug. 31 at 4:24 p.m. EDT (2024 UTC) when the eye was just southwest of the southern tip of Baja California.
Sept. 1, 2017: Hurricane Lidia’s eye was visible in NASA satellite imagery as it approached Baja California, Mexico’s southernmost tip. Hurricane Lidia was making landfall on the Baja on Sept. 1 at 5 a.m. PDT and continued to bring soaking rains to the region.
NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed over Hurricane Lidia on Aug. 31 at 4:24 p.m. EDT (2024 UTC). The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument aboard took a visible light picture of the storm when the eye was just southwest of the southern tip of Baja California. Thunderstorms in Lidia’s eastern quadrant had already spread over mainland Mexico.
Earlier in the day, NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over Lidia and analyzed the storm in infrared light as it strengthened quickly. Infrared data provides temperature information and the highest, coldest cloud tops in tropical cyclones indicate where the strongest storms are located. NASA’s AIRS instrument provides that critical temperature information.
Lidia is a large system. Tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 195 miles (315 km), especially to the northeast and southeast of the center. This large system’s most powerful thunderstorms surrounded the center of circulation. Some of the coldest cloud top temperatures exceeded minus 81 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 63 degrees Celsius). Storms with temperatures that cold are high in the troposphere and NASA research has shown they have the ability to generate heavy rain.
On Sept. 1, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said a Tropical Storm Warning was in effect for Baja California peninsula from San Jose de Las Palomas to Isla San Luis and for the mainland Mexico from Altata to Puerto Libertad.
At 5 a.m. PDT (8 a.m. EDT/1200 UTC) on Sept. 1, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said that the center of Lidia was moving onshore into Baja California Sur, Mexico and the heavy rains were continuing. The center of Tropical Storm Lidia was located near latitude 24.1 North, longitude 111.1 West.
Lidia was moving toward the northwest near 8 mph (13 kph), and NHC said this motion with an increase in forward speed is expected through Saturday night, Sept.2. Maximum sustained winds are near 65 mph (100 kph) with higher gusts. Weakening is forecast during the next couple of days while Lidia interacts with the mountainous terrain of the Baja California peninsula. The estimated minimum central pressure is 988 millibars.
As Lidia was moving over land on Sept. 1, infrared data showed that cloud top temperatures have been warming during the early morning hours. In addition NHC said that Lidia’s convective pattern appears to be losing some organization as the storm interacts with the high terrain of Baja California Sur.
Rainfall expected may reach up to a foot in some areas. Lidia is expected to produce total rain accumulations of 6 to 12 inches across the Mexican states of Baja California Sur into Baja California, Sinaloa, and the coastal section of Sonora, with isolated maximum amounts of 20 inches. These rains may cause life-threatening flash floods and mudslides.
On the forecast track, the center of Lidia will move near or along the west coast of the Baja California peninsula through Saturday and then move west of the peninsula over the Pacific waters Saturday night when it is expected to become a remnant low pressure area. NHC noted that “some of the tropical moisture from Lidia may reach parts of the desert U.S. Southwest this holiday weekend, including southern California, southern Nevada, and southwestern Arizona.
For updates on Lidia, visit: www.nhc.noaa.gov
Credit: NOAA/NASA Goddard Rapid Response Team
Release Date: September 1, 2017
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Goodbye Harvey | International Space Station
U.S. Astronaut Randy Bresnik: "Houston to Harvey, good riddance! Everyone else in the path needs to continue to take this storm seriously, hurricane or not!" #HoustonStrong
Credit: NASA/JSC
Release Date: August 31, 2017
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U.S. Astronaut Randy Bresnik: "Houston to Harvey, good riddance! Everyone else in the path needs to continue to take this storm seriously, hurricane or not!" #HoustonStrong
Credit: NASA/JSC
Release Date: August 31, 2017
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Sunrise | International Space Station
U.S. Astronaut Randy Bresnik: "Houston is reporting blue sky for the first time in many days! May this sunrise start the healing process." #HoustonStrong
Credit: NASA/JSC, U.S. Astronaut Jack Fischer
Release Date: August 30, 2017
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U.S. Astronaut Randy Bresnik: "Houston is reporting blue sky for the first time in many days! May this sunrise start the healing process." #HoustonStrong
Credit: NASA/JSC, U.S. Astronaut Jack Fischer
Release Date: August 30, 2017
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Tropical Storm Harvey | International Space Station
U.S. Astronaut Jack Fischer: "Harvey fills the window creating a path of destruction as it traverses the Gulf. Praying for the people there and hoping for sunshine."
Credit: NASA/JSC
Release Date: August 30, 2017
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U.S. Astronaut Jack Fischer: "Harvey fills the window creating a path of destruction as it traverses the Gulf. Praying for the people there and hoping for sunshine."
Credit: NASA/JSC
Release Date: August 30, 2017
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The #EarthObservation satellite #Landsat 8 acquired this amazing image of an apparent phytoplankton bloom off the northwest coast of #Norway.
Blooming Norwegian Sea
On July 23, 2017, the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite acquired this image of an apparent phytoplankton bloom off the northwest coast of Norway.
The light, milky-blue color suggests the bloom could contain coccolithophores—microscopic phytoplankton that are plated with white calcium carbonate. Other colors in the scene may come from sediment or other species of phytoplankton. Blooms at this latitude are triggered in part by the sunlight of long summer days.
Blooms can flourish farther north as well. The Barents Sea is known to host some stunning displays of plankton, visible from space in summer months when the sea becomes ice free.
https://go.nasa.gov/2ueaDHp
On July 23, 2017, the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite acquired this image of an apparent phytoplankton bloom off the northwest coast of Norway.
The light, milky-blue color suggests the bloom could contain coccolithophores—microscopic phytoplankton that are plated with white calcium carbonate. Other colors in the scene may come from sediment or other species of phytoplankton. Blooms at this latitude are triggered in part by the sunlight of long summer days.
Blooms can flourish farther north as well. The Barents Sea is known to host some stunning displays of plankton, visible from space in summer months when the sea becomes ice free.
https://go.nasa.gov/2ueaDHp
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