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Australia East Coast

This MODIS image from April 10, 2002, shows southeastern Australia. The Great Dividing Range Mountains along the coast in Queensland (top) and New South Wales (bottom) are more lush than the continental interior, where moisture is blocked by the mountains to the east.


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

Published April 27, 2002
Data acquired April 20 - 20, 2002

Source:
Terra > MODIS
Collection:
Visible Earth