Post #48

Staying close to those deer to us 🦌❄️ This winter scene captures the Sápmi region, which stretches across parts of Finland, Sweden, Norway and Russia. This region is the ancient home of the Sami, Europe’s only recognized indigenous people. About 80,000 to 100,000 Sami are spread across the four countries and have lived a nomadic life of hunting, gathering, and reindeer herding. In fact, this is one of the few places on Earth where deer have been domesticated. 🦌An estimated 500,000 reindeer live in Scandinavia, with most of them tended and herded by the Sami.🦌 The image above is part of a global composite assembled from data acquired in 2016 by the @NOAA and @NASAEarth Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership. This nightime view was made possible by the “day-night band” of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite, which is sensitive enough to measure nighttime light emissions and reflections to distinguish the intensity of lights and observe how they change. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory image