Fall Colors in the Allegheny Mountains

Brilliant orange leaves paint the mountains of northern Pennsylvania in this natural-color image acquired on October 13, 2010.

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Smoky Mountain Seasons

Time transforms the ranges in the southern Appalachian Mountains through the course of a year.

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New England’s Fall Colors

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Fall Color Arrives in the U.S. and Canada

Leaves change from green to orange and brown across the United States and Canada.

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Fall Color Around Lake Superior

The forests of northern Michigan and southern Ontario flamed orange as the first trees of the season—maples—began to display their brilliant red and orange fall colors. Veins of green run through the sea of orange where the deciduous forest gives way to deep green pine trees. The most vivid color is concentrated in Canada’s province of Ontario. Located farther south, Michigan’s trees show only a hint of color.

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Check Out These Colors, Maine!

In October, the state transitions form north to south with vibrant displays of peak autumn foliage.

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Fall Color in the U.S. Northeast

Fall was beginning to color the East Coast of the United States when MODIS captured this image on October 12, 2008.

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Before the Leaves Fall

Beneath a collection of contrails, colorful foliage spreads across a mountain landscape in the eastern U.S.

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Late Fall in the Adirondack Mountains

The red and orange tones of autumn had faded to brown in the mountains of New York and Vermont when this true color image was taken on November 8, 2009. The contrast between the green and gold valleys and brown mountains help reveal the unique geography of the region.

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Bushfires Raging in Southeast Australia

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Fall Colors in Eastern Siberia

As temperatures cool, deciduous trees in Siberia are making their annual transformation.

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Fall Colors Arriving

A process that occurs on a micro scale in trees shows up on a macro scale in satellite imagery.

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Mountains of Fall Color

Leaves are changing color along the Carpathian Mountains in Romania.

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From Green to Brown

In a span of just 11 days, fall colors swept over the Kamchatka Peninsula in eastern Siberia.

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Superior Fall Colors

In autumn, the leaves on deciduous trees change colors as they lose chlorophyll, the molecule that plants use to synthesize food.

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Rocky Mountain Fires

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Fall Colors in the Mid-Atlantic

The colors may not look as brilliant as the reds and golds you would see on the ground, but even from space, the difference between the summer and fall attire of the U.S. Mid-Atlantic is dramatic.

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