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Category: Astronomy • Environment
Posted on: December 21, 2009 5:04 PM, by Ethan Siegel
Thanks to NASA's Terra satellite for providing this image:
That tiny little white bar on the lower left, by the way? That's the scale of this image: 50 km (31 miles).
You know, as opposed to how it normally looks, when it isn't covered in snow:
Happy Holidays again! And a special thanks to Universe Today for showing this off, too!
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Comments
The snow put the fires out?
Posted by: Nelson Muntz | December 21, 2009 5:53 PM
Expect more in the coming week, Washington State is getting hit by another blast from the Gulf of Alaska.
(And some people say physics has no impact on their lives.)
Posted by: mythusmage
| December 21, 2009 11:55 PM
so what was the final tally? How much snow did you get?
Posted by: MArk | December 22, 2009 8:33 PM
What's that a red dot in the second photo?
The first picture astonished me.
Posted by: Essay help | December 23, 2009 4:21 AM
The red dots are "thermal anomalies", as seen by the satellite in infra red and then processed to make a neat little 1,000 m dot over the heat source. It's usually a fire.
Posted by: Zwirko | December 23, 2009 10:05 AM