Image:GuatemalaBajo IKO 20021215.jpg

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Description

False-colour image of a bajo (lowland area) in Guatemala. The forest covering sites of Mayan ruins appears yellowish, as opposed to the red colour of surrounding forest. The more sparsely vegetated bajos appear blue-green.

Source

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17188

Date

December 15, 2002

Author

Jesse Allen, NASA Earth Observatory using imagery provided courtesy of Tom Sever and Burgess Howell, Marshall Space Flight Centre, and GeoEye.

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