Another Cool Geo-Pic from NASA's Earth Observatory.
Cut & Paste Description:
" Winter had started to release its grip on the Gulf of St. Lawrence when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this photo-like image on April 7, 2008. Swirling clouds over chunky fields of sea ice provide a stark contrast to the deep black water of the gulf. The surrounding winter-brown landscape is still coated in white snow and ice except for southern Nova Scotia, which is starting to flush green with early spring foliage. The scene would have been much different, more uniformly white, if taken a month or two earlier. In the deep of winter, sea ice claims most of the gulf, while snow covers the land.... "
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