PIA23141: MODIS Images Fireball over Bering Sea
NASA's MODIS instrument, aboard the Terra satellite, captured this true-color image showing the remnants of a meteor's passage, seen as a dark shadow cast on thick, white clouds on Dec. 18, 2018.
 Target Name:  Earth
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Terra 
 Spacecraft:  Terra
 Instrument:  MODIS 
 Product Size:  3289 x 2252 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  Goddard Space Flight Center 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA23141.tif (16.58 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA23141.jpg (853.1 kB)  

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NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MODIS) instrument, aboard the Terra satellite, captured this true-color image showing the remnants of a meteor's passage, seen as a dark shadow cast on thick, white clouds on Dec. 18, 2018. MODIS captured the image at 23:50 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

The Terra spacecraft was launched in 1999 and is managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The MODIS instrument is managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

More information on MODIS is available at https://terra.nasa.gov/about/terra-instruments/modis.

Image Credit:
NASA/GSFC

Image Addition Date:
2019-03-21