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            "page_type": "Visualization",
            "title": "North America Snow Cover 2009-2012",
            "description": "This entry features visualization material of daily snow cover over North America from July 1, 2009 - March 11, 2012 and still images of snow cover in the Western region of United States. || ",
            "release_date": "2012-04-07T00:00:00-04:00",
            "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:53:09.274838-04:00",
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                "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003900/a003928/SnowCoverMapNA_1280x72030fps_1205_web.png",
                "filename": "SnowCoverMapNA_1280x72030fps_1205_web.png",
                "media_type": "Image",
                "alt_text": "Visualization of North America Snow Cover Map for the period of July 1, 2009 - March 11, 2012.",
                "width": 320,
                "height": 180,
                "pixels": 57600
            }
        },
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            "id": 3934,
            "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3934/",
            "page_type": "Visualization",
            "title": "North America Snow Cover Maps",
            "description": "This entry contains Snow Cover Maps for Norh America with statelines, using the MODIS Cloud-gap-filled (CGF) Product at ~25-km resolution. The MODIS CGF product seeks to provide clear snow observations by filling cloudy areas on a given day with clear observations from previous days.The usual source for this product is the MOD10C1 MODIS/Terra Snow Cover Daily L3 Global 0.05Deg CMG, Version 5 and a variant has been coded that can use MOD10A1 MODIS/Aqua Snow Cover Daily L3 Global 500m Grid, Version 5  as source. Maps are provided for various dates for 2006, 2010, 2011 and 2012, to compare snow cover between years. || ",
            "release_date": "2012-04-07T00:00:00-04:00",
            "update_date": "2023-05-03T13:53:09.443966-04:00",
            "main_image": {
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                "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003900/a003934/SnowCoverMapNA_2012065_3840x2160.jpg",
                "filename": "SnowCoverMapNA_2012065_3840x2160.jpg",
                "media_type": "Image",
                "alt_text": "Snow Cover Map of North America with US statelines on March 5, 2012. ",
                "width": 3840,
                "height": 2160,
                "pixels": 8294400
            }
        }
    ],
    "sources": [],
    "products": [],
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    "older_versions": [],
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}