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Terra Turns Ten: Snow, Clouds, and Sunlight

This trio of global maps illustrates how snow and clouds make Earth more reflective.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Terra Turns Ten: Snow, Clouds, and Sunlight.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Kevin Ward. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published December 18, 2009
Data acquired November 1 - 30, 2009