NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Trajectory plotted over the MODIS false color image using bands 3, 6, and 7 for the red, green and blue components of the digital image. Thick ice and snow appears vivid red (or red-orange), while small ice crystals in high-level clouds are reddish-orange or peach.The image includes scenes aquired between 01:00 and 04:00 UTC or roughly 15 hours before we reached the survey area and was available fordownloaded shortly before takeoff.