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English: Iceland, from the NASA Visible Earth image gallery. More info below
Deutsch: Satellitenbild Islands aus der NASA-Fotogallerie Visible Earth. Mehr Information untenstehend auf Englisch.
Українська: Супутниковий знімок Ісландії, 29 січня 2004 року.
Date 29 January 2004
Source http://veimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/6605/Iceland.A2004028.1355.250m.jpg
Author Jeff Schmaltz
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  • Description and alternative versions http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=6605 archive copy at the Wayback Machine
  • Metadata: Sensor Aqua/MODIS
  • Visualization Date: 2004-01-29
  • Credit: Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
  • Description: Iceland lives up to its name in this image, acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite on January 28, 2004. The island country is completely covered in white snow and ice, obscuring the permanent glaciers and icecaps that exist year-round. The effect of ice on this island sandwiched between the North Atlantic and the Greenland Sea, just below the Arctic Circle, is visible along its rugged northern shores. Over millennia, ice has carved out deep fjords leaving fringes of land that extend like fingers into the ocean.
  • Source: ”The purpose of NASA's Earth Observatory is to provide a freely-accessible publication on the Internet where the public can obtain new satellite imagery and scientific information about our home planet. The focus is on Earth's climate and environmental change. In particular, we hope our site is useful to public media and educators. Any and all materials published on the Earth Observatory are freely available for re-publication or re-use, except where copyright is indicated. We ask that NASA's Earth Observatory be given credit for its original materials.”

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