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INSTRUMENT SNAPS PICTURES OF DESERT IN THE SKY
The
desert takes to the skies in these images of eastern China
from NASA's Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR).
A hazy summer view from last summer compares with a spectacularly
dusty spring view from April 7, 2001. A high- resolution
view of this flying desert reveals fingerprint-like ridges
and valleys. Airborne dust clouds from this April 2001 storm
blew across the Pacific Ocean and were carried as far as
North America.
The
images are available at:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/pictures/misr
Analyses
of images such as these constitute one phase of MISR's participation
in the Asian-Pacific Regional Aerosol Characterization Experiment,
an international campaign aimed at studying the offshore
transport of airborne particles from the Asian continent.
More information about this international endeavor is available
online at http://saga.pmel.noaa.gov/aceasia/
.
MISR,
built and managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena,
Calif., is one of several Earth- observing experiments aboard
Terra, launched in December 1999. MISR acquires images of
the Earth at nine angles simultaneously, using nine separate
cameras pointed forward, downward, and backward along its
flight path. More information about MISR is available at
http://www-misr.jpl.nasa.gov
.
JPL
is a division of the California Institute of Technology
in Pasadena.
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