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Satellite photo of the Mid-Atlantic states
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Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
- Provider
- NASA
- Date created
- November 2, 2002
- Location
- United States
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- This work is believed to be in the public domain. Users are advised to make their own copyright assessment and to understand their rights to fair use.
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- Two worlds: Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony: First part of a North Carolina history text for secondary students, covering the land, American Indians before contact with Europeans, Spanish exploration, the Roanoke colony, and the Columbian Exchange. (Page 1.1)
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The Appalachian Mountains look like burnished copper in this true-color Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image from the Terra satellite on November 2, 2002. Nestled among the ridgelines are still-green valleys. Shown are (top tier, left to right) Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. Second tier from top shows Kentucky, Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware. Third tier shows Tennessee and North Carolina, and bottom tier shows Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina.
