Images & Animations
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Credit
Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
Lower elevations are thawing out, while higher mountain ranges are still covered in snow in this MODIS image of Alaska from May 14, 2002. At right, the Aleutian Range falls along Alaska’s eastern coastline. At upper right, a thin white line traversing generally south-southwest across the state is the Yukon River, still mostly frozen, although the high-resolution image shows a few dark places along the river’s length that could be thawed. Sediment fills the waters along the southwestern coastline, with some blue-green color that could be phytoplankton, as well.
Metadata
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Sensor
Terra/MODIS -
Visualization Date
2002-05-20
