October 13, 2020 - Italy

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   The skies over Italy were crystal clear on October 8, 2020, allowing
   the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board
   NASA’s Aqua satellite to acquire a true-color image of northern Italy.

   The Alps, capped in bright white snow and graced with green valleys,
   courses across the northern section of the image. Italy’s northern
   border, where it meets with four countries (France, Switzerland,
   Liechtenstein, and Austria) runs along most of this crescent-shaped
   mountain chain. Another mountain chain, the Apennines, runs along
   Italy’s spine. In this image, a few white clouds top the northern
   section of the Apennines.

   Autumnal oranges, yellows, and tans mark the Po River Valley south of
   the Alps. The valley is an important agricultural area, producing rice,
   soybeans, corn, and wheat. Each autumn, the crops begin to brown as
   weather cools and the leaves of deciduous trees turn from green to
   orange, yellow, and red. The rich farmland is fed by glacial streams
   and snowmelt from the Alps.

   To the east of the Italian mainland the blue waters of the Adriatic Sea
   wash the shorelines. The islands of Sardinia and Corsica sit in the
   Mediterranean, west of the mainland. Sardinia, the second-largest
   island in the Mediterranean, is an autonomous region of Italy. Corsica,
   just to the north, is one of the regions of France.

   Image Facts
   Satellite:  Aqua
   Date Acquired: 10/8/2020
   Resolutions:  1km (155.5 KB),  500m (524.9 KB),  250m (1.5 MB)
   Bands Used: 1,4,3
   Image Credit: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC



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