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English: When spring brings blossoms to Paris, crisp autumn air creates a palette of orange, red, yellows and tans in trees and grasslands across the landscape near Buenos Aires. After all, according to Albert Camus, “Autumn is a second spring, when every leaf is a flower”.

On April 10, 2020, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board NASA’s Aqua satellite acquired a true-color image of autumn in Argentina. Sediment flows down the Rio de La Plata as it pours into the South Atlantic Ocean—a common sight year-round. Buenos Aires, Argentina, can be seen as a large gray smudge on the southern bank of the Rio de La Plata. The broad pampas stretch across most of eastern Argentina and practically glow with the yellowing and tanning of the complicated grasses across the region.

While this image shows the beauty of autumn coloration in Argentina, it is even more informative to compare this image with a MODIS image acquired earlier. To see the changes that occur as autumn captures Argentina, the NASA Worldview app offers a comparison between this image and one acquired on January 31, 2020. To view this this comparison, click HERE

The NASA Worldview app provides a satellite's perspective of the planet as it looks today and as it has in the past through daily satellite images. Worldview is part of NASA’s Earth Observing System Data and Information System. EOSDIS makes the agency's large repository of data accessible and freely available to the public.