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Edited MODIS Terra PR image of part of Namibia. Color/processing variant.
Original caption: The reds and oranges of the Namibian landscape form a starkly beautiful image when viewed from space. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Terra satellite acquired this true-color image of southwestern Namibia on May 21, 2018.
The Republic of Namibia sits along southern Africa’s Atlantic coast. Just offshore the cold Benguela Current flows northward from the south, effectively suppressing rainfall and giving rise to the arid Namib Desert. The Namib Desert, with its soft orange sands lies along the coast. The desert ends abruptly with the rocky outcrops and lines of broken cliffs called the Great Escarpment. Further inland the Great Escarpment gives way to a high-elevation central plateau. While little rain falls in the highlands, it is enough to allow the growth of vegetation which appears as a faint wash of green in this image.
Image Facts
Satellite: Terra
Date Acquired: 5/21/2018
Resolutions: 1km (55.5 KB), 500m (164.1 KB), 250m (365.3 KB)
Bands Used: 1,4,3
Image Credit: Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC
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Namibia, Etosha National Park
This photo belongs to the album Black & Wildlife. Please check the whole album here:
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Many of the photos I’ve made did not qualify as excellent color photos, but some of them deserve a second chance in Black & White. Over the years I have made many wildlife photos which never made it onto my Flickr page. Sometimes the sun wasn’t bright enough to bring the colours to shine, sometimes there was too much heat in the air or too much dust and sometimes the subject just matched so well the color of the the scenery that it was rather monochrome. There are more possibilities of adjustment in B&W than in color without overdoing it. Actually, once you are happy with the adjustments of a photo in B&W you should turn it to color again. You will be surprised how terrible it might look. But analog B&W photographers have been using these technics for a century. They were using color filters: green, orange, yellow and so on but also polarisation filters more often than today. They had also the chance to influence the results of the photography when developing the film and while printing it. The adjustments I have taken were all done in Lightroom.
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The Spitzkoppe between Usakos and Swakopmund is also described as the "Matterhorn of Namibia". Rising to a altitude of 1728 metres, the Spitzkoppe is not Namibia's highest mountain, however, due to its striking outlines, it is the most well-known mountain in the country. Situated in an endless, dry plain, the island of mountains can be seen from far away. The difference in altitude between the mountain peak and the surrounding plains measures 700 Meter. Next to the Spitzkoppe can be found the "Small Spitzkoppe" with a height of 1584 metres above sea level and next to it the Pontok Mountains.
The granite massif, which is part of the Erongo Mountains, was created by the collapse of a gigantic volcano more than 100 million years ago and the subsequent erosion, which exposed the volcanic rock, granite. Over millions of years the outer layer was carried off by wind erosion, until the granite intrusion was exposed.