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English: On March 16, 2018, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Terra satellite acquired a true-color image of a winter day across Northern Scandinavia.

The rugged landscape of the region, especially along the western edge of the peninsula, has carved by glaciers during the last ice age. The jagged inlets that characterize Norway’s coast on the Norwegian Sea are known as fjords. Many of these fjords are steep and deep – some over 2,000 feet (610 meters) deep and were created as thick glaciers slid slowly off the mountains and scoured troughs into the rocky landscape. The deepest fjord on Norway’s coast sits in the southwest coast. Known as the Sogn Fjord, it is 4,291 feet (1,308 feet) deep.

Norway lies on the west of the Scandinavian Peninsula while Sweden sits in the east. The border between the two countries runs along the ridges of the Scandinavian Mountains. The Gulf of Bothnia lies between Sweden and Finland. At the time this image was acquired, the northern Gulf of Bothnia was covered with a layer of ice.