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A Golden Moment for Boreal Forests

Hillsides in Alaska’s interior showed their changing colors ahead of the autumnal equinox.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story A Golden Moment for Boreal Forests.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Michala Garrison, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Lindsey Doermann.

Published September 23, 2025
Data acquired September 18, 2025

Source:: Landsat 8 > OLI

Collection:: Fall Colors