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Sahara Desert in Algeria As Seen By Sentinel

By Keith Cowing
Press Release
July 2, 2015
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Sahara Desert in Algeria As Seen By Sentinel
Sahara Desert in Algeria
ESA et al

The Sahara desert’s sandy and rocky terrain in central Algeria, captured by the Sentinel-2A satellite in its first-ever scan of Earth on 27 June 2015.
Credit: Copernicus data (2015)/ESA

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