The other half of the United States is still there, but you might not know it from this NASA satellite image.
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center uploaded the picture to Flickr and shared it on one of the agency's Twitter accounts Friday morning. The true-color image shows a winter storm that has dumped more than a foot of snow on parts of the East Coast.
Anyone wake up & have a little bit of this on their yard? - Massive storm seen from space http://t.co/BVdGB3OegA pic.twitter.com/1Pk27kx2CR— NASA Goddard Images (@NASA_GoddardPix) January 3, 2014
Though the image may just look like a first-grader got hold of a bottle of white out and a map of the U.S., NASA, on Flickr, offered up an explanation as to how the agency generated it. The white-washed image is a composite of multiple shots NASA's Aqua satellite captured Thursday, using its Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer.
Meanwhile, in parts of Canada this week, temperatures have been comparable to those that NASA's Curiosity rover experiences -- on Mars.
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Image: NASA/GSFC/Aqua/MODIS