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[[Image:Ice cap.jpg|thumb|right|200px|This is an aerial image of the ice cap on Ellesmere Island, Canada. Credit: National Snow and Ice Data Center.]]
'''Earth''' is rocky astronomical object, a liquid object, a gaseous object, and a plasma object.
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==Astronomy==
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[[Image:Greenland 42.74746W 71.57394N.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Satellite composite image shows the ice sheet of Greenland. Credit: NASA.]]
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"The effective resolution of the DSCOVR EPIC camera is somewhere between 6.2 and 9.4 miles (10 and 15 kilometers)."<ref name=Szabo/>


"The visible reflectance declines from 0.95 to 0.60 as the snow cover metamorphoses to glacier ice [as seen in the figure at the left]."<ref name=Winther
/>{{ cite journal
|author=Jan-Gunnar Winther
|title=Landsat TM derived and in situ summer reflectance of glaciers in Svalbard
|journal=Polar Research
|month=June
|year=1993
|volume=12
|issue=1
|pages=37-55
|url=http://www.polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/download/6702/7535
|arxiv=
|bibcode=
|doi=10.1111/j.1751-8369.1993.tb00421.x
|pmid=
|accessdate=2014-09-27 }}</ref>

"The Landsat-5 satellite, launched in March 1984, carries a Multispectral Scanner Subsystem (MSS) and a Thematic Mapper (TM) onboard. The TM senses in the following bands:"<ref name=Winther/>
# (TM1) 0.45-0.52 µm blue-cyan-green,
# (TM2) 0.52-0.60 µm green-yellow-orange,
# (TM3) 0.63-0.69 µm red,
# (TM4) 0.76-0.90 µm near-infrared,
# (TM5) 1.55-1.75 µm near-infrared,
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