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  Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

A blanket of snow gives the Brooks Range Mountains in northern Alaska an etched appearance in this true-color Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image from October 15, 2002. North of the mountains, scores of small lakes dot the tundra of Alaska’s North Slope. Large volumes of sediment stain the Arctic waters at the top of the image brownish-green.The Beaufort Sea sits at the top of the image, while the Chukchi Sea peeks in at the middle of the left edge of the image and connects to the Kotzebue Sound. South of the Sound is the Seward Peninsula, which is a deep red-brown free of snow.

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