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The New Millennium

Image of the Day for January 3, 2001

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Jan 03, 2001
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This thermal infrared image of the Western Hemispherewas captured by the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite(GOES) located over the equator at 135° west longitude at the#147;official” turn of the millennium—12:00 A.M. January 1, 2001at the International Dateline. The dateline is at 180° west longitude,near the left edge of this image.

More GOES images are available from the Goes Project Science web site.

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Image courtesy GOES Science Team and Visualization Analysis Lab, NASA GSFC. Based on data from NOAA.

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