Earth Matters

Out of the Fog

February 25th, 2014 by Adam Voiland

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Most years, the Swiss Air Force hosts an air show in the fall that sends planes roaring over the Axalp-Ebenfluh firing range near Brienz, Switzerland. Spectators often congregate at the Axalp, a resort area on a terrace that overlooks Brienz from an elevation of about 1,500 meters (4,900 feet). While waiting for the 2013 show on October 13, 2013, Luca Brüderlin captured this image of a cable car emerging from a layer of fog along a rock wall. Brüderlin was one of twelve winners of a precipitation-themed photography contest sponsored by the Global Precipitation Mission (GPM), a new Earth-observing satellite that is scheduled to launch from Tanegashima Space Center in Japan this week. The lower image was collected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA’s Aqua satellite. It shows the clouds and fog in the area from above on the same day that Brüderlin took his photograph.

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See more of the winning photographs at
http://pmm.nasa.gov/gpm-unique-perspectives-photo-contest-winners

Follow GPM’s launch blog at
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/fromthefield/category/gpm-road-to-launch/
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GPM/main/

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