Our satellite imagery brain teasers continue. What well-known location, feature or landmark on Earth are we looking at this week? Check back next week when we will reveal the answer and see if you guessed correctly. The answer to the previous challenge is at the bottom of this page. Ready? Steady? Here we go…
Answer to the previous challenge: CZU Lightning Complex fires, Northern California. The image of the fire smoke across the Santa Cruz Mountains was captured on August 20, 2020 by the PlanetScope satellite constellation (the individual satellites are called Doves). PlanetScope imagery has a spatial resolution of 3.7 m and the constellation has daily refresh capabilities.