Images & Animations
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Credit
Image courtesy Jesse Allen, based on data from the MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC
Snow blankets the mountains and highlands of Lesotho and South Africa after the winter's first storm swept across southern Africa on June 8, 2004.
The first snow of the winter fell on the Drakensberg highlands of South Africa and Lesotho on June 8, 2004. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image of the snow in the peaks of the mountains on June 9. Snow is normal in the highlands this time of year as the Southern Hemisphere enters its winter months.
The high-resolution image provided above is at MODIS’ maximum resolution of 250 meters per pixel, and shows a wider area that includes Johannesburg (central north edge of the image) and Durban, as well as all of Lesotho.
Metadata
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Sensor
Aqua/MODIS -
Start Date
2004-06-09 -
Event Start Date
2004-06-09 -
NH Image ID
12176 -
NH Event ID
10398 -
NH Posting Date
2004-06-10
