Image:GuatemalaBajo IKO 20021215.jpg

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Summary

Description

False-colour image of a bajo (lowland area) in Guatemala. The forest covering sites of Mayan ruins appears yellowish, as opposed to the red colour of surrounding forest. The more sparsely vegetated bajos appear blue-green.

Source

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17188

Date

December 15, 2002

Author

Jesse Allen, NASA Earth Observatory using imagery provided courtesy of Tom Sever and Burgess Howell, Marshall Space Flight Centre, and GeoEye.

Permission

US government, public domain

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