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21. Take You to the Beach
What a lot of water!
Landsat-8 image courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey.
Puzzle by Galen, Bellingcat - with inspiration from this guide.. Part of the Multispectral Viewpoints series.
This image was captured by Landsat 8, a satellite that orbits the Earth every 99 minutes.
It captures images in multiple bands of the electromagnetic spectrum. Here, you just see the visible light bands, which are the ones that are most similar to what the human eye sees.
But where was Landsat-8 looking when it captured this image?
What is the name of the archipelago in this image?