• MODIS Pic of the Day 27 March 2022

    From Dan Richter@1:317/3 to All on Sun Mar 27 12:00:36 2022
    March 27, 2022 - Early Spring in the Western United States

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    On March 24, 2022, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
    (MODIS) on board NASA’s Terra satellite captured a true-color image of
    a sunny early-spring day in the Western United States.

    The color palette remains solidly winter-toned, colored in white, gray
    shades, and tans. Greens appear only in a very few areas, such as the
    deep greens of the southern forests, very pale washes of light green
    where grasses or scrub are thick, and most notably, the gray-green
    color marking the southern half of the Great Salt Lake, Utah. White
    snow sits atop the highest elevations, including California’s Sierra
    Nevada range (seen in the southwest corner), the peaks of the Great
    Basin across Nevada and Utah, the highlands of the Colorado Plateau in
    Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and Colorado, as well as the Rocky Mountain
    chain that span the scene from southeast to northwest. Light gray marks
    salt flats found in some of the lower valleys of Nevada and Utah,
    including the massive Bonneville Salt Flats southwest of the Great Salt
    Lake.

    Image Facts
    Satellite: Terra
    Date Acquired: 3/24/2022
    Resolutions: 1km (569.8 KB), 500m (2 MB), 250m (6.3 MB)
    Bands Used: 1,4,3
    Image Credit: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC



    https://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/individual.php?db_date=2022-03-27

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