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Data acquired October 30, 2008 720 x 720 JPEG
Data acquired October 30, 2008 5000 x 5000 5 MB - JPEG
What begins with L? Las Vegas and Le Havre. Landsat, lidar, and the lithosphere. These little lumps of frozen liquid littered across the Northeast like lamb’s fleece.
On October 30, 2008, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite captured this image of snow across the northeastern United States.
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NASA Earth Observatory image using MODIS data from LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response. Caption by Adam Voiland.
Published February 14, 2017 Data acquired October 30, 2008