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Mount Fuji’s Missing Snow

The lack of snow cover in December left Japan’s iconic mountain looking a little different than usual.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and MODIS data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published January 12, 2021
Data acquired December 29, 2013 - January 1, 2021

Sources:
Landsat 8 > OLI
Terra > MODIS