Terra Turns Ten: Snow, Clouds, and Sunlight

By Richard Chasey, posted on December 20th, 2009 in Earth Observation, Weather

Originally Published by NASA Earth Observatory

This trio of global maps from NASA’s Terra satellite from November 2009 illustrates how snow and clouds make Earth more reflective.

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