If you didn’t know better, you might think the above is an image of water rippling over a colorful lake bottom, or an abstract painting of sorts. The reality is that this is an image of the Earth, specifically a sunset over an area of the Sahara Desert, as captured by NASA’s Landsat 7 satellite. It shows ‘ribbons’ of sand and patterns of stripes from linear dunes in the uninhabited Erg Chech region of southwestern Algeria.
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