It's Arbor Day - a day dedicated to trees! This real-time view of vegetation across Earth's land shows just how much vegetation changes over the course of a year. The darkest green areas are the lushest in vegetation, while the pale colors are sparse in vegetation cover either due to snow, drought, rock, sand, or urban areas. Read more about this dataset here: https://sos.noaa.gov/datasets/vegetation-real-time/ | NOAA Science On a Sphere