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City of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada




Ham Lake Fire, Minnesota and Ontario
Along the Minnesota-Ontario border, the Ham Lake Fire was billowing a thick cloud of smoke toward the east on May 10, 2007, when Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image. Places where MODIS detected actively burning fire are outlined in red. Smoke reaches the city of Thunder Bay, on the shores of Lake Superior.
According to reports from the National Interagency Fire Center on May 11, the fire was burning in timber and dead fuel, and had affected 50,000 acres. Only 5 percent contained, the blaze was threatening residences and commercial property and had forced evacuations in surrounding communities.
The large image provided above has a spatial resolution (level of detail) of 250 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response Team provides twice-daily images of the region in additional resolutions and formats, including an infrared-enhanced version that highlights the burn scar on the ground.


City of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

Located on the shores of Lake Superior (regional view), the metropolitan area of Thunder Bay is one of the largest in the Province of Ontario. It is also the major port providing access to the Great Lakes for central Canada’s grain products. The city of Thunder Bay is relatively new; it was incorporated in 1970 by combining the cities of Fort William (shown in this astronaut photograph) and Port Arthur with the townships of Neebing and McIntyre. While the spread of separate municipalities into a larger contiguous metropolitan area is common (urban geographers call the process agglomeration), it is less common for distinct cities to merge into a new political entity.
This detailed astronaut photograph is centered on the older city of Fort William, in the southern portion of Thunder Bay. Winter snows outline the street grid of the city, while parks appear as roughly rectangular areas of unbroken white snow. Built materials (buildings, streets) appear light gray, while vegetated areas and the rock outcrop near Mount McKay are dark green to dark gray. The Kam River to the south of Fort William is ice-covered, and has an even covering of snow that traces the river channel.
Astronaut photograph ISS018-E-11174 was acquired on December 6, 2008, with a Nikon D2Xs digital camera fitted with an 800 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center. The image was taken by the Expedition 18 crew. The image in this article has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast. Lens artifacts have been removed. The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. Caption William L. Stefanov, NASA-JSC.
Instrument: 
ISS - Digital Camera

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