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Snow in the Middle East

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Feb 21, 2017
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Snow in the Middle East
February 20, 2017

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this view of snow in the Middle East on February 20, 2017. The white coating stretched from eastern Turkey and the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea.

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NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response. Caption by Pola Lem.

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