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Snow covering almost all of Great Britain. This image was taken by the MODIS instrument on NASA's Terra satellite on the 7th of January 2010. On most days in winter only the highest mountains in Great Britain will be covered in snow. But a very cold weather and heavy snowfall in early January 2010 led to all but a few areas on the coast being covered by snow.
Ireland on the left is mostly covered by cloud, but where there are gaps we can see no snow coverage.
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Image credit: NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center Credit Link
Related glossary terms:
Winter
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Image caption: Schnee bedeckt fast ganz Großbritannien. Dieses Bild wurde am 7. Januar 2010 vom MODIS-Instrument auf dem Terra-Satelliten der NASA aufgenommen. An den meisten Wintertagen sind in Großbritannien nur die höchsten Berge schneebedeckt. Doch aufgrund der sehr kalten Witterung und der starken Schneefälle Anfang Januar 2010 waren bis auf wenige Gebiete an der Küste alle Regionen mit Schnee bedeckt.
Irland auf der linken Seite ist dagegen größtenteils von Wolken bedeckt. Doch dort, wo sich Lücken zeigen, ist keine Schneedecke zu erkennen.
Image credit: NASA-Aufnahme von Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center
Related glossary terms: Winter Caption translation status: Not yet approved by a reviewer
Caption translators: Simon Kraus
Image caption: La neve ricopre quasi tutta la Gran Bretagna. Questa immagine è stata scattata dallo strumento MODIS a bordo del satellite Terra della NASA il 7 gennaio 2010. Nella maggior parte dei giorni d’inverno, solo le montagne più alte della Gran Bretagna sono ricoperte di neve. Tuttavia, il freddo intenso e le abbondanti nevicate dei primi giorni di gennaio 2010 hanno fatto sì che tutte le zone, tranne alcune aree costiere, fossero ricoperte di neve.
L'Irlanda, sulla sinistra, è per lo più coperta da nuvole, ma dove queste si diradano non si vede alcun manto nevoso.
Image credit: Immagine della NASA realizzata da Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center
Related glossary terms: Inverno Caption translation status: Not yet approved by a reviewer
Caption translators: Giuliana Giobbi
