March 27, 2022 - Early Spring in the Western United States
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On March 24, 2022, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
(MODIS) on board NASA’s Terra satellite captured a true-color image of
a sunny early-spring day in the Western United States.
The color palette remains solidly winter-toned, colored in white, gray
shades, and tans. Greens appear only in a very few areas, such as the
deep greens of the southern forests, very pale washes of light green
where grasses or scrub are thick, and most notably, the gray-green
color marking the southern half of the Great Salt Lake, Utah. White
snow sits atop the highest elevations, including California’s Sierra
Nevada range (seen in the southwest corner), the peaks of the Great
Basin across Nevada and Utah, the highlands of the Colorado Plateau in
Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and Colorado, as well as the Rocky Mountain
chain that span the scene from southeast to northwest. Light gray marks
salt flats found in some of the lower valleys of Nevada and Utah,
including the massive Bonneville Salt Flats southwest of the Great Salt
Lake.
Image Facts
Satellite: Terra
Date Acquired: 3/24/2022
Resolutions: 1km (569.8 KB), 500m (2 MB), 250m (6.3 MB)
Bands Used: 1,4,3
Image Credit: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC
https://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/individual.php?db_date=2022-03-27
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