St. Patrick’s Day might have been last week, but it’s never too late to showcase some beautiful imagery taken of the Emerald Isle.
The first image looks at Ireland under a sky of clouds and having already been dusted with snow. The image, taken by the Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite, acquired this natural-color image of Ireland in the early afternoon on December 2, during a break in the cloud cover: since the lat week of November, Ireland and the Uk had been locked in a record pattern of snowfalls and cold temperatures.
The second image was taken a day before St. Pat’s Day, once again by MODIS onboard Aqua, and shows an almost cloud-free Ireland and a very heavily clouded UK.
Source: NASA Goddard Photo and Video 1 and 2
