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On January 28, 2017, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image of snow cover across the American Southwest, including California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico.
NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response. Caption by Pola Lem.
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