ECOSTRESS Sees Plants Waking Up

An instrument on the International Space Station observed vegetation beginning to stir on summer mornings near Lake Superior.

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NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview and evaporative stress data from the ECOSTRESS team. Story by Esprit Smith, NASA’s Earth Science News team, with Mike Carlowicz.

Published February 26, 2020
Data acquired June 1 - August 30, 2019

Sources:

Aqua > MODIS

ISS > ECOSTRESS

Collection:

Science in Action