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The Alphabet from Orbit: Letter F

Big F, little f. What begins with F? Firn-filled fjords and frozen forms on folded, fossil-filled facies of rock! Fog, fossil fuels, and faults. France, Fort Collins, and don’t forget Fiji.

The Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 acquired this false-color image of valleys and snow-covered mountain ranges in southeastern Tibet on August 4, 2014. Firn is a granular type of snow often found on the surface of a glacier before it has been compressed into ice.


NASA Earth Observatory image using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Adam Voiland.

Published February 13, 2017
Data acquired August 4, 2014

Source:
Landsat 8 > OLI
Collections:
ABCs from Space
Visible Earth