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Despite its northerly location, valleys in parts of this remote archipelago burst into green in the summer.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and NDVI data from Karlsen et al. (2014). Caption by Adam Voiland.

Published August 27, 2015
Data acquired April 29 - July 9, 2015

Sources:
Aqua > MODIS
Landsat 8 > OLI