The Netherlands on an almost cloudless 12 April 2025, seen by NASA's VIIRS camera

True colour from NASA's GIBS map service, layer VIIRS_SNPP_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor. You can see the Wadden Islands, the IJsselmeer and the Flevoland polders, the Zeeland delta and the light patches of the cities. The straight seam on the right is the edge between two overpasses. One pixel is hundreds of metres here: enough for the country, too coarse for your street.

Source: NASA GIBS (WMS), VIIRS true colour · opgehaald 18 oktober 2026Open the table Single block

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The Netherlands on an almost cloudless 12 April 2025, seen by NASA's VIIRS camera

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