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Foggy Mountain Breakdown

Clear skies over the Rocky Mountains helped a temperature inversion to form, which in turn led to cloud-filled valleys.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published December 12, 2020
Data acquired December 1 - 5, 2020

Sources:
Aqua > MODIS
Terra > MODIS