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Spanish Peaks Turn Tan

White mountaintops received a fresh dusting—and not of snow.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2017) processed by the European Space Agency. NASA Earth Observatory thanks Antti Lipponen, a researcher at the Finnish Meteorological Institute who spotted the dust in satellite imagery. Caption by Pola Lem.

Published March 4, 2017
Data acquired February 18 - 27, 2017

Sources:
Landsat 8 > OLI
Sentinel-2