Der NASA-Satellit fängt einen Ausbruch pulsierenden Lebens in einer braunen Wüste ein
https://www.earth.com/news/nasa-satellite-captures-a-burst-of-vibrant-life-in-brown-desert-australia-cooper-creek/
Der NASA-Satellit fängt einen Ausbruch pulsierenden Lebens in einer braunen Wüste ein
https://www.earth.com/news/nasa-satellite-captures-a-burst-of-vibrant-life-in-brown-desert-australia-cooper-creek/
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It’s about Australia.
“In outback Australia, a usually brown desert at Cooper Creek has turned suddenly green along hundreds of miles of river channels. March 2025 brought more than a year’s worth of rain in one week over parts of western Queensland, sending water racing across dry country.”
Yep, that happens every year, but that’s a good Landsat image of it.
I work for Landsat, and one of the best examples of this is [The Optimist](https://eros.usgs.gov/media-gallery/earth-as-art/1/the-optimist). That’s a scene we took over the Kalahari desert and I selected for our Earth as Art exhibit. The desert is encroaching on Namibia to the north, with the sands blowing in dunes over dirt and what was once arable farmland. But in the very center of the image is a red circle (which indicates growing vegetation when the NIR band is used for red in the image). That’s a pivot irrigation system — a farmer keeping his crops irrigated and growing despite the sands climbing around him.
That was 25 years ago. I ought to check to see if The Optimist is still there.