Colorado Rockies Snow International Space Station

From the International Space Station: The snow covered #Rockies in #Colorado shot by Astro #NickHague on 15Mar2025. #PicsFromSpace

True color satellite view of White Sands, New Mexico from Senintel-2 with thin, high-level clouds right over the area of interest. Surface reflectance data removes haze & other atmospheric effects, which is good for calculating surface properties but bad for finding out if a scene has a clear view of the ground.

The perils of using surface reflectance data to create browse imagery. (Read the alt text if you don’t get it!)

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