Living on a Restless Planet
By:U.S. Government
Published on 2011-10 by Books LLC
Original publisher: Pasadena, Calif.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, [2002] OCLC Number: (OCoLC)54483341 Subject: Natural disasters -- Research. Excerpt: ... . On May 4, 2000, a prescribed fire set many details of plate. at Bandelier National Monument, tectonics have been.. New Mexico, raged out of control worked out, although. due to high winds and dry condi-we have come to recog-. tions, threatening the nearby town nize that the Earth is a.. of Los Alamos. In all, more than complex, interconnected. 20,000 people were evacuated and system involving the. more than 200 houses were de-. solid Earth, the atmo-. stroyed. Images acquired by the sphere, hydrosphere, . Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus cryosphere, and bio-. ( ETM + ) sensor aboard NASA's. sphere. We are still in. Landsat 7 satellite reveal the extent the infancy stage of un-. of the damage. Combining one vis-derstanding this system... ible and two infrared channels re-Our focus now is understanding the processes that drive plate motions, deform the Earth's. sults in a false-color image where surface, and influence climate. Our goal is to construct predictive models that can forecast. vegetation appears as bright to dark change or catastrophic events and predict the consequences of such changes and events.. green. Rangeland appears pink to through a concerted effort to address the defining challenges identified in this report.. light purple. Areas with extensive. All of these challenges, at least in part, address the processes that transform the Earth's sur-pavement or urban development. face. Nearly all of the changes to the Earth's surface are driven, in one manner or another, . appear light blue or white to. by the internal heat transport and dynamics of the Earth's interior. purple. The areas recently burned. appear bright red.. Plate tectonic theory explains the large-scale motions of the outer surface of the Earth. In. mos...
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