The First Day In The Life of Aqua/MODIS

  • Released Thursday, August 15, 2002
View full credits

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.

This image shows two of the images (the U.S. East Coast covered in smoke and flooding in Texas) that were captured by MODIS.

This image shows two of the images (the U.S. East Coast covered in smoke and flooding in Texas) that were captured by MODIS.

Video slate image reads, "The First Day in the Life of Aqua MODIS".

Video slate image reads, "The First Day in the Life of Aqua MODIS".

Credits

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio

This page was originally published on Thursday, August 15, 2002.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:57 PM EDT.

Missions

This page is related to the following missions:

Series

This page can be found in the following series:

Datasets used

Note: While we identify the data sets used on this page, we do not store any further details, nor the data sets themselves on our site.