Satellite Image of the Day: January 10, 2007
(click here for previous images of the day from RUSMART)

NOAA's Hydrometeorologial Prediction Center (HPC) "Daily National Forecast" image shows a daily national weather prediction

NOAA's National Hurricane Center

Satellites: NOAA-15 and NOAA-17, part of NOAA's 850km-high (530 mile-high) Polar Orbiting satellites

Flood plains around the southeast coast

The image below is a false color (i.e. it approximates what our eyes would really see) image of the south Atlantic coast.
This image shows clearly how the areas next to lakes and rivers are great storehouses of water, vital to the summertime health of the surrounding land.
There is a very large and famous swampy area in the northeastern corner of North Carolina that stands out clearly in this image.
This swampy area is also vital to nature's cleaning of the drainoff water in a great deal of this area of North Carolina.

Click on the image for a higher resolution (~180k) version.