The mountains of Australia showed from the satellite
A mountain range in southern Australia, one of the largest on the mainland, was captured by the Sentinel-2 satellite. Its appearance impressed the experts very much with its many colorful curves and folds.
The image shows Wolkatunha Gammon National Park in the Flinders Mountains to the north. Its main attractions are deep gorges, precipices and spectacular wilderness. The numerous streams in the image are very similar to veins, and the straight white lines are dirt roads, according to the website of the European Space Agency.
The satellite image was processed by selecting spectral bands that can be used to classify geological features.
The Flinders Mountains are a classic example of a folded mountain range that forms when two or more of the Earth's tectonic plates collide — the folding and pushing of layers of earth into mountain ranges. The formation of the ridge began about 800 million years ago, when the ancient sea left deposits in the Adelaide Geosyncline Basin. Millions of years later, precipitation piled up in the mountains, which have been crumbling ever since. However, the rocks from these deposits remained to create the landscape as we see it today.
Recently, the NASA / ESA Hubble telescope made another photo captures summer in the northern hemisphere of the planet Saturn. It was received on July 4, 2020, when the rich world of the giant was at a distance of 1350 million km.
The image shows Wolkatunha Gammon National Park in the Flinders Mountains to the north. Its main attractions are deep gorges, precipices and spectacular wilderness. The numerous streams in the image are very similar to veins, and the straight white lines are dirt roads, according to the website of the European Space Agency.
The satellite image was processed by selecting spectral bands that can be used to classify geological features.
The Flinders Mountains are a classic example of a folded mountain range that forms when two or more of the Earth's tectonic plates collide — the folding and pushing of layers of earth into mountain ranges. The formation of the ridge began about 800 million years ago, when the ancient sea left deposits in the Adelaide Geosyncline Basin. Millions of years later, precipitation piled up in the mountains, which have been crumbling ever since. However, the rocks from these deposits remained to create the landscape as we see it today.
Recently, the NASA / ESA Hubble telescope made another photo captures summer in the northern hemisphere of the planet Saturn. It was received on July 4, 2020, when the rich world of the giant was at a distance of 1350 million km.
