Data from the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer's vertical-viewing
(nadir) camera were combined to create this cloud-free natural-color mosaic
of Scandinavia and the Baltic region. The image extends from 64°N, 0°E in
the northwest to 56°N, 32°E in the southeast, and has been draped over a
shaded relief Digital Terrain Elevation Model from the United States
Geological Survey. It is displayed in an equidistant conic projection.
The image area includes southern Norway, Sweden and Finland, northern
Denmark, Estonia, Latvia and part of western Russia. Norway's rugged
western coastline is deeply indented by fjords. Elongated lakes, formed by
glacial erosion and deposition, are characteristic of the entire region,
and are particularly dense throughout Finland and Sweden. Numerous islands
are present, and a virtually continuous chain of small, scattered islands
occur between Sweden and Finland. The northern and eastern waters of the
Baltic Sea are almost fresh, since the Baltic receives saltwater only from
the narrow and shallow sounds between Denmark and Sweden that connect it to
the North Sea. Most of the major cities within the image area are coastal,
including St. Petersburg, Stockholm, Helsinki, Riga, and Oslo.
The Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) observes the daylit Earth
continuously from pole to pole, and every 9 days views the entire globe
between 82 degrees north and 82 degrees south latitude.
MISR was built and is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, for NASA's Office of Earth Science, Washington, DC. The Terra satellite is managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology.
Image credit: NASA/GSFC/LaRC/JPL, MISR Team. Jim Knighton of Clear Light Image Products produced the image mosaic. Please note that the image shown here is at a pixel resolution of approximately 1.1 kilometers, but a more detailed version at a resolution of 278 meters is available from the producer.
Text acknowledgment: Clare Averill
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