nationalgeographicmagazine: Saharan Watercolor Image courtesy Michael Taylor, Landsat/NASAThis circa-2000 satellite picture of Tassili n’Ajjer National Park in southeastern Algeria serves as a snapshot of the region’s geologic history. Desert sands (yellow) fill in now dry lakes carved into ancient granite (red), while salt deposits (blue) pop up among the wind-sculpted sandstone (tan). NASA’s Landsat 7 satellite captured the false-color picture of the Sahara—released this week—using infrared, near-infrared, and visible light to reveal the park’s various rock types. One reason why one of my almost-majors was Geology.

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Saharan Watercolor
Image courtesy Michael Taylor, Landsat/NASA
This circa-2000 satellite picture of Tassili n’Ajjer National Park in southeastern Algeria serves as a snapshot of the region’s geologic history. Desert sands (yellow) fill in now dry lakes carved into ancient granite (red), while salt deposits (blue) pop up among the wind-sculpted sandstone (tan).
NASA’s Landsat 7 satellite captured the false-color picture of the Sahara—released this week—using infrared, near-infrared, and visible light to reveal the park’s various rock types.

One reason why one of my almost-majors was Geology.

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