Holiday calendar: Satellite spies a fantastic fan (Photo: NASA) This picture may remind you of an alien landscape, but it’s actually a look at our own planet from hundreds of miles above. NASA’s Terra satellite captured this view of a 35-mile-wide (55-kilometer-wide) alluvial fan in China’s Xinjiang Province in 2003. Read the complete story.
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Holiday calendar: Satellite spies a fantastic fan

(Photo: NASA)

This picture may remind you of an alien landscape, but it’s actually a look at our own planet from hundreds of miles above. NASA’s Terra satellite captured this view of a 35-mile-wide (55-kilometer-wide) alluvial fan in China’s Xinjiang Province in 2003.

Read the complete story.

Source: photoblog.nbcnews.com

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