Australia in Technicolor – April 4, 2022
Full disclosure, this is not what Australia really looks like from space. This false-color photo was taken all the way back on October 12, 2004 using NASA’s Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer onboard the Terra satellite. According to NASA, this image was taken using shortwave-infrared, near infrared, visible red, and visible green light in order to effectively distinguish rock types obscured by vegetation. These rocks, more specifically, are located within Hamersley Basin in Western Australia.
