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Hokkaido (Japan) and Kuril Islands (Russia)

Snow is clinging to the higher elevations of the mountains of Hokkaido, Japan (lower left), in this MODIS image from May 14, 2001. Stretching northward in an arc away from Hokkaido, the Kuril Islands are covered in snow, and the Sakhalin Peninsula (upper left) is only beginning to thaw out from winter.


Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

Published January 28, 2002
Data acquired May 14, 2001

Source:
Terra > MODIS
Collection:
Visible Earth