Science and Exploration

The Alps As Seen From Orbit

By Keith Cowing
Press Release
August 8, 2021
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The Alps As Seen From Orbit
The Alps
ESA

Thomas Pesquet: After the zoom on Briancon, here are the Alps in larger perspective.
Can you see where Briancon is? ? From space I cannot help but noticing that the clouds seem to form on the Southern side (i.e. in Italy) more than the Northern side…

Les Alpes en juin dernier – je peux tĂ©moigner que la neige a bien fondu depuis 🙂

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Credits: ESA/NASA-T. Pesquet Larger image

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