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National Aeronautics and Space Administration - NASAEarthquake creates a new island: Off the coast of Pakistan, a new island rose from the seafloor on Tuesday. The “mudisland” rose from the seafloor near Gwadar on September 24, shortly after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake rattled the Balochistan province of northwestern Pakistan. The Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) captured this image of a new island off the coast of Pakistan on September 26, 2013.The Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite isan advanced land-imaging mission that demonstrates new instruments and spacecraft systems. EO-1 was launchedfrom Vandenberg Air Force Base, California on November 21, 2000.Image credit: NASA
Posted on: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 17:54:33 +0000

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