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02.16.2015 | This image shows the snow-covered northeastern United States as observed by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite.

(NASA/Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

It's not quite the snow- and ice-covered planet Hoth from "Star Wars" or the Klingon penal colony on the frozen asteroid Rura Penthe from "Star Trek," but a satellite photo from the Earthly space agency NASA shows the northeastern United States completely covered in snow, and a lot of it.

The image was taken on Monday by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA's Terra satellite. The photo followed the weekend blizzard dubbed Winter Storm Neptune by The Weather Channel that dumped a foot or more of snow over large swaths of eastern New England.

Temperatures on Monday dropped to as low as -30 degrees Fahrenheit (-34deg Celsius) in some New England areas, making our little corner of the planet especially icy when the photo was taken.

If you click on the thumbnail image below to enlarge it, look closely: You can see a white line across southwestern and south central Massachusetts — the path of the 2011 tornado from Springfield to Charlton. NBC Connecticut meteorologist Brad Field sent a tweet about the tornado scar.

According to NASA, almost eight feet of snow has fallen on Boston in the past three weeks: