October 30, 2022 - Fall Colors in the Appalachian Mountains
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Fall colors were on full display when the Moderate Resolution Imaging
Spectroradiometer (MODIS) acquired a true-color image centered on the
Appalachian Mountains on October 27, 2022. The scene stretches from the
Chesapeake Bay westward to the agricultural fields of Ohio, with the
folded mountains in between.
Although the colors of the autumn leaves don’t appear as brilliant red,
orange, and yellow from space as they do from the ground, the dramatic
change in color is still obvious. The cool temperatures of fall and
shortening day length has burnished the high elevations in a
coppery-red tint, while the valleys are washed in greenish-yellow and
tans of fallow fields all along the Appalachian Mountains. This
includes the ridges across West Virginia, the Blue Ridge Mountains in
Virginia, and the Allegheny Range in south-central Pennsylvania. The
agricultural-dominated flatter lands both to the east and west are also
painted in the shades of green, gold, and tan of crop stubble, drying
vegetation, and harvested fields.
Image Facts
Satellite: Aqua
Date Acquired: 10/27/2022
Resolutions: 1km (635.5 KB), 500m (1.6 MB), 250m (3.8 MB)
Bands Used: 1,4,3
Image Credit: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC
https://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/individual.php?db_date=2022-10-30
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