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\nNorth Africa\u2019s High Atlas mountain range was imaged by ESA\u2019s Proba-V minisatellite last summer, with vegetation shown in false-colour red.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe mountains \u2013 an extension of Europe\u2019s Alpine system \u2013 stretch some 2400 km through Morocco, seen here, into Algeria and Tunisia. The Atlas mountains are actually a set of five ranges dividing the northern Mediterranean climate from the arid Sahara to the south.\n<\/p>\n
\nA second, darker, range, the Anti-Atlas mountains, are seen to the south, with the the Draa River valley cutting through them \u2013 seen as a reddish line. The Draa, Morocco\u2019s longest river, flows south from the city of Ouarzazate city into the Sahara.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe Berber-speaking Ouarzazate is a popular location for filmmakers, with productions such as Lawrence of Arabia<\/i> (1962), The Mummy<\/i> (1999) and Game of Thrones<\/i> (2011\u2013present) having been shot here.\n<\/p>\n
\nLaunched on 7 May 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 camera\u2019s continent-spanning 2250 km swath width collects light in the blue, red, near-infrared and mid-infrared wavebands at 300 m resolution and down to 100 m resolution in its central field of view.\n<\/p>\n \nVITO Remote Sensing in Belgium processes and then distributes Proba-V data to users worldwide. An online image gallery<\/a> highlights some of the mission\u2019s most striking images so far, including views of storms, fires and deforestation.\n<\/p>\n \nThis 100-m resolution image was acquired on 13 July 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \nNorth Africa’s High Atlas mountain range was imaged by ESA’s Proba-V minisatellite last summer, with vegetation shown in false-colour red.\n<\/p>\n \nThe mountains – an extension of Europe’s Alpine system – stretch some 2400 km through Morocco, seen here, into Algeria and Tunisia. The Atlas mountains are actually a set of five ranges dividing the northern Mediterranean climate from the arid Sahara to the south.\n<\/p>\n \nA second, darker, range, the Anti-Atlas mountains, are seen to the south, with the the Draa River valley cutting through them – seen as a reddish line. The Draa, Morocco’s longest river, flows south from the city of Ouarzazate city into the Sahara.\n<\/p>\n \nThe Berber-speaking Ouarzazate is a popular location for filmmakers, with productions such as Lawrence of Arabia<\/i> (1962), The Mummy<\/i> (1999) and Game of Thrones<\/i> (2011–present) having been shot here.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n