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October 21, 2017 - Southern Greenland
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On October 14, 2017, NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over Greenland as the clouds parted over the island, allowing the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer to acquire a stunning true-color image of the southern tip of Greenland.
Greenland covers an area of over 836 million square miles (2.1 million square km), making it slightly more than three times larger than the state of Texas. It is the world’s largest island, but only 0.6% of the land is useful for agriculture, according to the CIA World Factbook, and almost all of this is used as pastureland. Much of the rest of Greenland – about 81% of the island - lies underneath a large ice cap that measures as much as 3 km (1.9 mi) thick. The huge ice cap feeds hundreds of glacier that slowly flow off the continent to the sea.
Image Facts
Satellite:
Aqua
Date Acquired: 10/14/2017
Resolutions:
1km (227.7 KB), 500m (796.5 KB), 250m (1.9 MB)
Bands Used: 1,4,3
Image Credit:
Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC
On October 14, 2017, NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over Greenland as the clouds parted over the island, allowing the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer to acquire a stunning true-color image of the southern tip of Greenland.
Greenland covers an area of over 836 million square miles (2.1 million square km), making it slightly more than three times larger than the state of Texas. It is the world’s largest island, but only 0.6% of the land is useful for agriculture, according to the CIA World Factbook, and almost all of this is used as pastureland. Much of the rest of Greenland – about 81% of the island - lies underneath a large ice cap that measures as much as 3 km (1.9 mi) thick. The huge ice cap feeds hundreds of glacier that slowly flow off the continent to the sea.
Image Facts
Satellite:
Aqua
Date Acquired: 10/14/2017
Resolutions:
1km (227.7 KB), 500m (796.5 KB), 250m (1.9 MB)
Bands Used: 1,4,3
Image Credit:
Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC
