# @usgs on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DSK2UTulKpi
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/69013834-usgs-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-12-12T16:06:50.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) (@USGS) — https://gondola.cc/USGS

## Caption

Snow-covered landscapes take on an entirely different look from space. ❄️🛰️

These images are part of the USGS Earth as Art collection, created using Nasa and USGS_Landsat satellite data that combines visible and infrared wavelengths. From orbit, snow patterns across mountains, glaciers, frozen rivers, and ice fields become clearly visible, revealing the structure of winter landscapes on regional and global scales.

Beyond their striking appearance, these data are important for science. Researchers use them to monitor snow cover, track water resources, study glacier dynamics, and observe changes over time.

Explore the full Earth as Art collection at the link in today’s USGS story.

📷 1: Snow-capped peaks and ridges of the eastern Himalaya Mountains.
📷 2: The eastern side of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula as it juts into the Pacific Ocean west of Alaska.
📷 3: Byrd Glacier in Antarctica as it moves through the Transantarctic Mountains.
📷 4: Small field of glaciers surrounding Baffin Bay along Greenland’s western coast. 
📷 5: Vatnajokull Glacier in Iceland’s Skaftafell National Park.

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