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Rare Middle Eastern Snow Seen by Terra

Posted on by Tassia Owen Posted in News and Events

NASA image courtesy EOSDIS Worldview at NASA GSFC. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

A rare winter storm dropped snow across much of the Middle East between December 10 and 13, 2013. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite acquired this image of the snow on December 15 after the clouds cleared. For the most part, the snow is confined to higher elevations in Syrian, Egypt, Lebanon, Israel and West Bank, and Jordan. Some lower-elevation desert regions in Syria are snowy. Read more

NASA image courtesy EOSDIS Worldview at NASA GSFC. Caption by Holli Riebeek.
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