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Snow in the U.S. West

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Jan 02, 2015
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2015-01-01 00:00:00
January 1, 2015

Much of the U.S. West entered 2015 under a blanket of snow. The storm even dusted the Southwest, including Arizona’s Grand Canyon. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite acquired this image on January 1, 2015.

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NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response. Caption by Kathryn Hansen.

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