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Aleutian Islands Image Captured by MODIS |
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The Aleutian Islands are a chain of more than 300 small volcanic islands forming an island arc in the Northern Pacific Ocean, occupying an area of 6,821 sq mi (17,666 sq km) and extending about 1,200 mi (1,900 km) westward from the Alaska Peninsula toward the Kamchatka Peninsula. As nearly all the archipelago is part of Alaska, it's being considered as the "Alaskan Bush". At the extreme western end lies Komandorski Islands, a Russian territory.
MODIS captures data in 36 spectral bands ranging in wavelength from 0.4 µm to 14.4 µm and at varying spatial resolutions. The instrument is designed to provide measurements in large-scale global dynamics changes in Earth's cloud cover, radiation budget and processes occurring in the oceans, on land, and in the lower atmosphere.
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