Instruments aboard a hi-tech NASA satellite have captured an
awe-inspiring view of Britain blanketed by snow last week. The
natural-colour image captured by Terra shows a detailed view of
the snows covering Britain on January 26. The Terra satellite
orbits at an altitude of 435 miles, and has been collecting data
on our changing climate using five sensors since 1999. Terra has
previously captured some of NASA's famous 'Blue Marble' imagery
of planet Earth seen from space. "Snow blanketed most of Great
Britain in late January 2013, stretching from London to the
northern tip of Scotland," NASA's Terra team said in a statement
this week. "Terra captured this natural-color image on January
26, 2013. Only some coastal areas and the southwestern part of
the island were free of snow when MODIS took this picture."
"Skies had mostly cleared by the time MODIS acquired the image,
but some clouds lingered in the west, casting shadows onto the
snowy surface below."