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Last weekend I visited Niles Beach in Gloucester. Pretty cool beach. It's mostly sand but in the middle there are some nice rocks. I have a bunch of shots to put up from here, then it's back to more waterfalls and autumn foliage from October.
This was taken a bit before sunset. There was a lot of haze in the sky so the lighting got good early.
I had a perfect picture of the Nile river… until my own Soyuz photobombed me!
J’étais sur le point de faire une super photo du delta du Nil… jusqu’à ce que notre propre Soyouz s’incruste dans le cadre !
Credits: ESA/NASA
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A part of the White Nile state in Sudan is featured in this false-colour image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.
White Nile is one of the 18 states of Sudan. Covering an area of around 40 000 sq km, the state is divided into four districts: Ad Douiem, Al Gutaina, Kosti and Al Jabalian. The area pictured here is located just north of Kosti, also spelled Kūstī, which lies on the west bank of the White Nile River (not visible).
This false-colour image, captured on 25 August 2021, was processed in a way that also includes information from the near-infrared channel and shows vegetation in tones of red. This band combination is routinely used to monitor vegetation health. Although the area lies within an arid climatic region, low vegetation covering the valley floors between the sand dunes can be seen in bright shades of red.
Many agricultural plots can also be seen in red, particularly in the far-right and far-bottom of the image. Agriculture plays an important role in Sudan’s economy. The country’s main crops include cotton, peanuts, sesame and sugarcane, while the main subsistence crops include wheat, corn, sorghum and millet. Several small villages can also be spotted in the image, with many of them visible near artificial water reservoirs (easily spotted with their rectangular shape) and are most likely utilised during the dry season.
Owing to seasonal rainfall, many ephemeral bodies of water can be spotted in shades of turquoise and blue in the image.
Flooding is common in Sudan in August and September. During these months each year, monsoon rains pour into the Ethiopian Highlands and flow down to the Blue and White Nile and can often lead to floodwaters swamping nearby communities. Starting in August 2021, a series of torrential downpours overwhelmed streams and rivers and unleashed floods in the area, with the White Nile being one of the hardest hit areas.
Copernicus Sentinel-2 has two satellites, each carrying a high-resolution camera that images Earth’s surface in 13 spectral bands. The type of band combination from Copernicus Sentinel-2 used to process this image is commonly utilised to assess plant density and health, as plants reflect near-infrared and green light, while absorbing red. Since they reflect more near-infrared than green, dense, plant-covered land appears in bright red.
This image is also featured on the Earth from Space video programme.
Credits: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
Flying over Africa the view quickly passes from river valleys to deserts. I don't know if this area was irrigated or formed by nature, but either way the results are stunning. The blue water from the White Nile disrupts the ochre coloured surroundings.
En Afrique de l'Est, on passe du désert aux vallées fluviales assez rapidement (du moins en station spatiale :)). Des canaux sillonnent la végétation qui semble recouvrir le fleuve : je ne sais pas si c'est une œuvre humaine ou de la nature, mais le résultat ne manque pas de style. Le bleu du Nil Blanc et le vert des rives sont assez courant sous ces latitudes, mais ils tranchent avec les zones désertiques ocres qu'on survole un peu plus au Nord.
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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Alexandria, the second-largest city in Egypt and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast. It lies at the western edge of the Nile River delta. Founded in 331 BC by Alexander the Great.
A cute elderly couple walk side by side through Riverfront park and along the St. Joseph River as the now empty Amtrak ballast train led by a pair of former Pepsi can's cruises west back to Michigan City.
The Ptolemaic Nilometer at ancient Elephantine takes the form of a staircase with graduated lines carved into its walls indicating the height of floods more precisely than its predecessor. The installation is below the temple of Satet, which was also expanded during the Hellenistic era.
The Nile (Arabic: النيل, transliteration: an-nīl, Ancient Egyptian iteru or Ḥ'pī, Coptic piaro or phiaro) is a major north-flowing river in Africa, generally regarded as the longest river in the world.[1]
The Nile has two major tributaries, the White Nile and Blue Nile, the latter being the source of most of the Nile's water and fertile soil, but the former being the longer of the two. The White Nile rises in the Great Lakes region of central Africa, with the most distant source in southern Rwanda 2°16′55.92″S 29°19′52.32″E / -2.2822, 29.3312, and flows north from there through Tanzania, Lake Victoria, Uganda and southern Sudan, while the Blue Nile starts at Lake Tana in Ethiopia 12°2′8.8″N 37°15′53.11″E / 12.035778, 37.2647528, flowing into Sudan from the southeast. The two rivers meet near the Sudanese capital Khartoum.
The northern section of the river flows almost entirely through desert, from Sudan into Egypt, a country whose civilization has depended on the river since ancient times. Most of the population of Egypt and all of its cities, with the exception of those near the coast, lie along those parts of the Nile valley north of Aswan; and nearly all the cultural and historical sites of Ancient Egypt are found along the banks of the river. The Nile ends in a large delta that empties into the Mediterranean Sea.
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