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Worth 1,000 Words

By Marcus Gilmer in Miscellaneous on Sep 8, 2010 6:40PM

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Image via NASA

What does the Great Lakes region look like on a nearly cloudless day? The above, which was taken on August 28, 2010 by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite. Check out this cool interactive feature for viewing the photo.