Satellite Eye on Earth: November 2015 - in pictures

Iceberg cloud wakes in the Antarctic, cloud vortices in the Indian Ocean and salt pans in the Australian desert were are among the images captured by European Space Agency and Nasa satellites last month

On 20 November, satellites captured this image of fresh snow that had fallen along the Himalayan range in central Asia. The moisture for snowfall in this part of the range is delivered primarily by the summer monsoon. The mountains form a natural barrier that blocks monsoonal moisture from reaching the Tibetan plateau to the north. This makes the plains south of the mountains green with vegetation, while much of the plateau is brown and comparatively barren. Haze over India is visible in the south-west corner of the image, most likely from fires set in preparation for crop sowing.