Roughly 438 miles above the Earth, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite opened its Earth-view door on June 24 and took its first look at ...

Unique observations of Earth’s vegetation are coming down from the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite. Scientists from the University of Arizona and Boston ...

Three different platforms have been examining Typhoon Dolphin as it moves through the Northwestern Pacific Ocean. The RapidScat instrument saw Dolphin's winds intensify over May 16 and 17, the Global ...

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS, is an instrument that flies on NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites and provides incredible views of tropical cyclones like Hurricane Igor, from ...

The Aqua satellite's MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) instrument took this image of the fires in Siberia. The top image shows the full sized false color image of the area ...

instruments on sister satellites in Earth orbit. Like its twin flying aboard NASA’s Terra satellite — launched in 1999 — Aqua MODIS sees almost the entire surface of our planet every day in 36 ...

NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites flew over Typhoon Hagupit from Dec. 6 through Dec. 8 and the MODIS instrument that flies aboard both satellites provided images of the storm as it moved through the ...