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As the clouds allowed during the past two months,the Sea-viewing Wide field-of-View Sensor (SeaWiFS) recordedthe changing colors of eastern U.S. and Canadian vegetation.This series of true-color images from the fall of 2000 shows the deciduous forestsof the region change from dark green to bright red and orange,and begin to drop their leaves.
Image provided by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE
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Late-season reds and browns swept across the Ozark Highlands in the south-central U.S.
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