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First Day of Fall 2023 Image: NASA Shares Beautiful Throwback Pic of New York's Adirondack Mountains On the First Day of Autumn

NASA shared a beautiful aerial view of a sprawling forest below with white clouds dotting the Adirondack Mountains of New York. Lake Champlain stretches out in the centre of the photo in dark blue.⁣

First Day of Fall 2023 Image: NASA Shares Beautiful Throwback Pic of New York's Adirondack Mountains On the First Day of Autumn
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September 23, 2023, marks the first full day of fall in the Northern Hemisphere and spring in the Southern Hemisphere. In autumn, shortened daylight and temperature drops trigger plants to slow and stop the production of chlorophyll, the molecule that plants use to synthesize food, causing them to change colours. Earth-observing satellite Landsat 9 captured this process in the Adirondack Mountains in 2022.⁣ NASA shared a beautiful aerial view of a sprawling forest below with white clouds dotting the Adirondack Mountains. Lake Champlain stretches out in the centre of the photo in dark blue. 'Merging Galaxies': NASA's Hubble Telescope Shares Captivating Image of Two Merging Galaxies Located 350 Million Light Years From Earth (See Pic).

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