About 1800 firefighters are battling fifty bushfires ignited by lightning in the Alpine National Park north of Licola and Dargo. The resort is discouraging tourists and others from making non-essential trips up the mountain. Seen by Daily Terra, 2006-12-06
This section collects views from Planet Earth.
All pictures are previews and link to bigger satellite views,
the map explorer or similar content.
Expect huge graphics, live feeds or interactive content - try them out.
Sub pages show daily satellite views of parts of Ross Sea Ice Shelf and Larsen Ice Shelf.
Expect huge graphics, live feeds or interactive content - try them out.
Sub pages show daily satellite views of parts of Ross Sea Ice Shelf and Larsen Ice Shelf.
WMO reports cancelled sports events in Austria, Czech Republic, France, Slovakia and Switzerland caused by warm weather in these countries. With temperatures above 10°C and heavy rain even artificial snow is not an option.
Picture above shows the Alps last and this (right) year by December 1st.
Yahoo! News: 2006-07 World Cup Ski Schedule
Die Zeit: Der Schneekanonier, der Pistenraupenfahrer, der Lawinensprenger
Midwest’s first big snowstorm of the season left hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses without electricity. The storm was blamed for at least 13 deaths as it spread ice and deep snow from Texas to Michigan. Photo captured by Daily Terra, 2006-12-02
When a Landsat satellite passes within range of the ground station at the USGS EROS center, image data are downlinked and displayed in near-real time.
When Landsat 5 and 7 are not in range, the most recent pass is displayed.
The EarthNow! Landsat Image Viewer displays the images in the 5, 4, 3 (Red, Green, Blue) band combination for both the TM and ETM+ sensors.
Each pixel of Landsat data in the EarthNow! viewer covers about 250 meters by 250 meters.
Fire started 10 days ago and had scorched some 12,000 hectares of inaccessible forest land in the Blue Mountains. During November to February bushfire are very common in Australia. Picture captured by Daily Terrra, 2006-11-23.
With wind speed up to 215kph Cimaron hits northern Philippine territory, causing 15 death, uprooted trees and flooding. Typhoon seen by Daily Aqua, 2006-20-29 5:00 UTC
A deliberately-set wildfire in Southern California has now burned nearly 40,000 acres. A reward for information leading to the arrest of a suspected arsonist has grown to $500,000. Seen by Daily Aqua, 2006-10-26
With currently 3,350m Etna or Mongibello is biggest volcanoe in Europe. Etna is very active but not dangerous because his lava is too liquide to plug. Interested in volcanoe trecking? Satellite photo taken by Daily Terra, 2006-10-26
The Mexican government issued a hurricane watch along the Baja California peninsula from Cabo San Lucas on the southern tip northward to Agua Blanca and across to La Paz on the east coast. Picture taken by Daily Terra, 2006-10-22.
The greater Tokyo area counts a population of more than 35mill inhabitants and is Planet’s largest metropolitan area. Photo taken by Daily Terra, 2006-10-19. Do you see the ice cap of Mount Fuji?
Info: Effect of Sea-level Rise on Japan
Melville Island is Australias second largest island and land of dense rainforest and cascading waterfalls. Together with nearby Bathurst it is home to the Australian Aboriginal people, the Tiwi. Picture taken by Daily Aqua, 2006-10-05.
Photographer Thierry Legault shot this spectacular image.
It shows the transit of the International Space Station (ISS) and Space Shuttle Atlantis 50 minutes after undocking from the ISS in front of the Sun on 17 September 2006 13:38:50 UTC. (more…)
Within 36 hours Milenyo - international codename Xangsane - grew from a tropical depression to a typhoon with gusts up to 240 km/h. He crossed the northern Philippines on Thursday, left six provinces - 43 million people - without electricity and killed at least eleven people. About 5500 people fled their homes, Crops and fruit trees worth $1.19 million had been destroyed. (more…)
With a fast Internet connection these ~90MB animations from the SeaWIFS Instrument provide a great view at the seasons of our Planet.
Starting from Sep 1997 you’ll see eight years with phytoplankton blooms and El Niños oscillating with temperature, nutrient availability, rainfall, and other environmental factors.
Animation for Europe, America and Asia, Australia.
Large wildfire located between Stauffer and Fillmore. Smoke captured by Daily Terra, 2006-09-13.
University of Berkeley has recently opened the Center of Fire Research and Outreach and helps homeowners, researchers and decision-makers with a toolkit to determine where wildfires occur and how to protect homes.
Shockwave application showing in simulated real time human birth and death rates and the amount of emmited carbon dioxyd. Numbers are presented per country and global. While writing this 350,000 tonnes have been added to the atmosphere.
While the remnant of Florence is near Newfoundland, hurricane Gordon is expected to go northwards and unnamed troprical depression eight is leaving Africa going north west. Satellite picture taken by GOES-12, 2006-09-13 07:45 UTC.
Check out the interactive Visual Weather Modell for North Atlantic for a 5 days forecast.
