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5/7/2007 - 11/11/2007
5/7/2007
Snow-capped Rocky Mountains (left) and rivers through northwestern Wyoming.
5/12/2007
Cloud formations over the ocean at night.
5/24/2007
Mountains in British Columbia near Williston Lake (lower right) at night.
5/29/2007
Clear skies over Washington and Oregon.
6/7/2007
Sunglint (light ocean colors) over the islands off Los Angeles, California.
6/11/2007
Chlorophyll patterns north of San Francisco, California.
6/16/2007
Interesting cloud formations over the ocean at night.
6/25/2007
Chlorophyll bloom off the Oregon coast.
7/4/2007
The Pacific Northwest on a clear day. The white dots down the center of the image are snow-capped mountains of the Cascade Range.
7/10/2007
Chlorophyll bloom at the Columbia River outlet.
7/16/2007
Egley Complex Fire in Oregon. This fire has reached over 100,000 acres. The fire is at the bottom edge of the large smoke cloud in the center of the image.
7/26/2007
Cloud shadows in North Dakota.
8/1/2007
Ocean patterns visible in a true-color image during the day, off the Oregon coast.
9/4/2007
Smoke from the Moonlight Fire in Plumas National Forest, California. The fire started the day before this image. Three days later it covered 28,000 acres and was only 8 percent contained.
9/12/2007
Smoke from numerous fires in central Idaho near Salmon River. Some of these fires have been burning since June 2007, and cover hundreds of thousands of acres.
9/17/2007
Chlorophyll plumes off Pt. Conception, California.
9/26/2007
Great Salt Lake, Utah. A train trestle divides the lake in the middle. The northern section is saltier and shallower than the southern section. Different kinds of algae and bacteria grow in the two sections, causing the different colors.
10/2/2007
Sea surface temperature patterns off the coast of California.
10/9/2007
Low pressure system over the Pacific Ocean.
10/19/2007
Chlorophyll eddies off California.
10/22/2007
Smoke billowing from numerous fires in southern California. Sixteen fires are burning, of which only 4 are fully contained. Over 1000 homes have been destroyed, thousands more are threatened. Many areas have been evacuated.
10/30/2007
Chlorophyll off Baja California and in the Gulf of California.
11/5/2007
Chlorophyll patterns off Oregon.
11/11/2007
Low pressure system in the northern North Pacific.
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Last update: August 13 2008