Reply #9: I found this Satellite picture from today, it's RAW but still clear...

[Up2Late]

But it will take a little work. Go to the link below, which will open up about several dozen thumbnail pictures.

<http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/realtime/2006047/>

Go all the way to the bottom and that over to the 3rd column, then up 3 rows to the picture with this label:

12:15 UTC
(in the Aqua group)

Click on that picture. Once it opens, you can click on 5 different resolutions in the normal visible spectrum, or Bands 7-2-1 which is color IR. It has a few other bands, but I'm not sure what those are for. In Color IR, bright green shows where the plants and grasses are. In the Bands 1-4-3 (true color), the red dots are active fires.

Aqua
2006/047
02/16/06
12:15 UTC

Another thing I had noticed with the Aral Sea, and I see it's also a problem with Lake Chad, I have a Rand-McNally World Atlas that I bought last year, and both Lake Chad and the Aral Sea are shown as they were in about 1973. Almost every map of central Asia makes it look like their is no problem. :mad: