Tournament Earth 2015: We have a winner!

Tournament Earth 2015 has come to an end, and the colorful faults of Xinjiang, China took the #2 seed all the way to the championship, and a repeat for the Art Section This year's victory is a first for the Landsat satellite and we look forward to more great imagery from this and many other satellites and sensors during the next year Thank you all for voting!

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The following sections have been updated in the past 7 days

-- FIRES (1 updated events, 1 new images) --

WILDFIRES IN SOUTHERN CHILE In March 2015, damaging fires burned in southern Chile * http://earthobservatory nasa gov/NaturalHazards/view php?id=85603&src=nha * Image from Mar 29, 2015 (Posted on Mar 30, 2015 4:31 PM)

-- SEVERE STORMS (1 updated events, 3 new images) --

TYPHOON MAYSAK Typhoon Maysak reached category 5 on March 31, 2015 * http://earthobservatory nasa gov/NaturalHazards/view php?id=85638&src=nha * Image from Apr 02, 2015 (Posted on Apr 03, 2015 10:06 AM) * http://earthobservatory nasa gov/NaturalHazards/view php?id=85630&src=nha Image from Mar 31, 2015 (Posted on Apr 01, 2015 12:23 PM) * http://earthobservatory nasa gov/NaturalHazards/view php?id=85614&src=nha Image from Mar 31, 2015 (Posted on Mar 31, 2015 2:45 PM)

-- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (2 updated events, 2 new images) --

DUST STORM OVER THE ARABIAN PENINSULA In April 2015, a massive dust storm whipped dust across much of the Arabian Peninsula * http://earthobservatory nasa gov/NaturalHazards/view php?id=85649&src=nha * Image from Apr 02, 2015 (Posted on Apr 03, 2015 4:18 PM)

TAKLIMAKAN DESERT DUST STORM Dust blows from China's Taklimakan Desert * http://earthobservatory nasa gov/NaturalHazards/view php?id=85620&src=nha * Image from Apr 01, 2015 (Posted on Apr 01, 2015 9:38 AM)

-- CROPS AND DROUGHT (1 updated events, 1 new images) --

DROUGHT IN THE WESTERN UNITED STATES Drought plagued California and much of the American Southwest for three years * http://earthobservatory nasa gov/NaturalHazards/view php?id=85632&src=nha * Image from Mar 29, 2015 (Posted on Apr 02, 2015 12:45 PM)

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