Mount Fuji, Japan’s highest peak, has seen its first snowfall after one of the longest periods without snow since records began 130 years ago.

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captured this image of Mount Fuji's iconic snowcap on 7 November, a day after snow was first spotted by the Japan Mereological Agency’s Shizuoka branch.

Sentinel-2 carries a high-resolution multispectral imager to deliver optical images from the visible to the shortwave-infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Data collected from Sentinel-2 are used for a wide range of applications, including precision farming, water quality monitoring and natural disaster management.

More images of Mount Fuji from space can be found here.