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\nESA\u2019s Proba-V minisatellite captures the rare sight of standing water in the arid south Australian outback.\n<\/p>\n
\nLake Frome, one of the whitest salt lakes in the southern hemisphere is visible to the right. Unusually, this 12 February image shows it filled with brackish water that has flowed down the creeks in the area, which are typically dry.\n<\/p>\n
\nCovering most of this 100-m spatial resolution image are the ranges and gorges of Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges National Park, haven to many rare and endangered plants and animals.\n<\/p>\n
\nLaunched in 2013, Proba-V<\/a> is a miniaturised ESA satellite tasked with a full-scale mission: to map land cover and vegetation growth across the entire planet every two days.\n<\/p>\n \nIts main imager\u2019s continent-spanning 2250 km swath collects light in the blue, red, near-infrared and mid-infrared wavebands \u2013 at 300 m spatial resolution and down to 100 m resolution in its central field of view.\n<\/p>\n \nVITO, the Flemish institute for technological research, processes and then distributes Proba-V data to users. VITO has a produced an online gallery<\/a> highlighting some of the mission\u2019s most striking images so far, including views of storms, fires and deforestation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \t\t\t\t\t \nESA\u2019s Proba-V minisatellite captures the rare sight of standing water in the arid south Australian outback.\n<\/p>\n \nLake Frome, one of the whitest salt lakes in the southern hemisphere is visible to the right. Unusually, this 12 February image shows it filled with brackish water that has flowed down the creeks in the area, which are typically dry.\n<\/p>\n \nCovering most of this 100-m spatial resolution image are the ranges and gorges of Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges National Park, haven to many rare and endangered plants and animals.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n