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DOWN TO EARTH: Europe's snow-kissed Alps seen from space
6 Apr 2009
The snow-capped, crescent-shaped Alps and Italy's Apennines mountain chain (visible mostly in brown) are shown in this image acquired by the Envisat satellite's Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) instrument on December 8, 2008. Due to this snow cover and a relatively low illumination angle of the Sun, the ranges and valleys of the mountains stand out in the image.
Much of the whiteness seen in the top of the image is cloud cover, but fog is visible in the valleys such as the Rhine.
Adapted from information issued by ESA.
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