NASA Image: Slovakia from Space

Slovakia: Snow covers much of northern central Europe on December 9th, 2002.

The snow stretches, from top to bottom, through Latvia (top right), Lithuania, a small piece of the Russian Federation (between Poland and Lithuania), western Belarus, eastern Poland, and down into the Carpathian Mountains of western Ukraine and Romania.

A thinner line of snow and clouds also runs along the Poland and Czech Republic/Slovakia border.

In this false-colour image the bright turquoise and black colours correspond to ice- and snow-free land and water (respectively), while white corresponds to cloud cover, and red corresponds to snow

Picture: NASA / REX FEATURES