• MODIS Pic of the Day 30 October 2022

    From Dan Richter@1:317/3 to All on Sun Oct 30 12:00:18 2022
    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



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