Satellite

See also The Friends of Black Rock's current conditions page.

Visibility prediction

When Satellites will be visible above the Black Rock Desert, Nevada

• heavens-above.com for Gerlach
  • International Space Station (ISS)

MODIS

MODIS is a satellite that images the Black Rock Desert Region.

• Near Real Time (Orbit Swath) Images
  • Railroad Valley Subset

Clips from MODIS realtime strips

• MODIS Terra 5 May 1140 PDT

How to see how wet the Playa has been

This is based in part on Laura's page Black Rock Desert - MODIS Images - How wet was the Black Rock Desert this year? from 2011.

The basic idea is that we look for terra 7-2-1 MODIS data and display it

1. Go to https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/
2. Pan and zoom until you have a nice view of the Black Rock Desert
3. Click on the red "+ Add Layers" button
4. In the search window, type "terra 7-2-1" and click on the red box at the right of "Corrected Reflectance (Bands 7-2-1)" to select it.
5. Close the search window by clicking on the X.
6. Now you can change the time scale to make a movie or a gif.

• BlackRockDesertFalseColorShowingWater-2017-06-13-to-2017-06-26.gif
• Nasa-worldview-2016-05-28-to-2017-03-31.gif

• Wet-Dry Cycle (Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center) - Satellite images of the Black Rock Desert playa in 2017

See Also

• Astronomy