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Grazing with Iceland’s Reindeer

While efforts to raise domesticated reindeer on the island failed, herds of wild reindeer prosper in East Iceland.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Photograph by Darcy Moore. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published December 22, 2021
Data acquired September 9, 2021

Sources:
Aqua > MODIS
Landsat 8 > OLI
Photograph