File:Australia (MODIS 2016-07-01).jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file ‎(2,428 × 1,784 pixels, file size: 477 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

On June 27, 2016, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA's Terra satellite captured this true-color image of a clear winter's day in northern Australia.

Summary

[edit]
Description
English: On June 27, 2016, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA's Terra satellite captured this true-color image of a clear winter's day in northern Australia.

The blue waters of Joseph Bonaparte Gulf are muddied with sediment pouring from the Victoria River in Australia's Northern Territory. The rugged coastline of the northern tip of Western Australia lies in the left section of the image. Bright white, highly reflective areas along the coastline are not, as might seem logical, beaches of white sand, but are hypersaline salt flats - areas where the evaporation of highly salt-laden water has left a crusty mineral coating on the landscape.

Just to the west of the Victoria River Delta is a diamond-shaped point with relatively light white edges. Known as Legune, it has been recognized as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International. The hypersaline flats support few birds, but the wetlands are seasonally flooded, creating habitat attractive to many species of bird, including Pied Heron, Australian White Ibis, Rufous Night-Heron, and Wandering Whistling Duck.
Date Taken on 27 June 2016
Source

Australia (direct link)

This image or video was catalogued by Goddard Space Flight Center of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: 2016-07-01.

This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.
Other languages:

العربية ∙ беларуская (тарашкевіца) ∙ български ∙ català ∙ čeština ∙ dansk ∙ Deutsch ∙ English ∙ español ∙ فارسی ∙ français ∙ galego ∙ magyar ∙ հայերեն ∙ Bahasa Indonesia ∙ italiano ∙ 日本語 ∙ македонски ∙ മലയാളം ∙ Nederlands ∙ polski ∙ português ∙ русский ∙ sicilianu ∙ slovenščina ∙ Türkçe ∙ українська ∙ 简体中文 ∙ 繁體中文 ∙ +/−

Author Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC
This media is a product of the
Terra mission
Credit and attribution belongs to the mission team, if not already specified in the "author" row

Licensing

[edit]
Public domain This file is in the public domain in the United States because it was solely created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". (See Template:PD-USGov, NASA copyright policy page or JPL Image Use Policy.)
Warnings:

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current19:29, 15 February 2024Thumbnail for version as of 19:29, 15 February 20242,428 × 1,784 (477 KB)OptimusPrimeBot (talk | contribs)#Spacemedia - Upload of http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/images/image07012016_250m.jpg via Commons:Spacemedia

You cannot overwrite this file.

There are no pages that use this file.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Australia_(MODIS_2016-07-01).jpg&oldid=852069973"