Scandinavia and the Baltic Region
Credit: Credit: NASA/GSFC/LaRC/JPL, MISR Team., Posted on: Friday, 15 August 2003, 06:00 CDT Download full size image
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.
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