60 years of snow from space

In English snow-ice

Simon Gascoin, 2 avril 2020

Suomi/VIIRS had a nice view of snow in the Alps today, 60 years after the first TIROS image.

Thanks to all space agencies for providing us great data to study snow. And thanks to Richard Essery for the tip!

https://www.cesbio.cnrs.fr/multitemp/snow-cover-in-the-high-mountain-asia-on-13-may-1960/

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