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Winter in the Andes

Every austral winter in the central Andes, fresh snowfall covers and fills the gaps between mountaintops that have more permanent snow and ice.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published August 11, 2018
Data acquired July 30, 2018

Source:
Terra > MODIS