Geology Picture of the Week, May 12-18, 2002

National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Johnson Space Center ^ | May 2002

[cogitator]

A bit of a puzzle with this one:

Why is this geology? Hint: look at the key words.

I think the colorful fields are canola -- can anyone verify?

Click this link for a bigger view.

http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/images/city/Registered/ISS004-E-10413.jpg

[cogitator]

Good images also to be found on the NASA Earth Observatory Web site.

[cogitator]

*ping*

[EggsAckley]

*thinking about reporting abuse* LOL!! I CAN'T SEE IT!!
I can NEVER see these things. What am I doing wrong?
(know I'll be sorry for asking THAT!)Hehehe

[cogitator]

What are you trying to see?

[EggsAckley]

*SOBBING* What IS it???

[FormerRep]

Umm... it's a satelite photograph.

[cogitator]

As another correspondent noted, it's a photograph from space. (Taken by astronauts on the Space Shuttle.) Not to try and hide anything, it's a view of Paris, France, and environs. The reason that I called it geology is because of the particularly characteristic course of the river, which is obvious in this image and not as obvious in closer, higher resolution views of the city.

[EggsAckley]

Thank you for the clarification. I thought maybe there was SOMETHING to see, like those halographic pics. You're right, the Seine does have a very interesting path. In the pic, the city around it looks more like molten lava than a city. Interesting.

[openotherend]

Stay out of there! Don't swim there! People that swim there go insane!