• Earth from Space: Ouarzazate, Morocco HI-RES JPG [1.45 MB] HI-RES TIF [41.90 MB] Thank you for liking You have already liked this page, you can only like it once! • TheCopernicus Sentinel-2 missiontakes us over south-central Morocco, near the city of Ouarzazate. • Zoom in or click on the circles to explore this image at its full 10 m resolution. • This image captures the region of the Anti-Atlas Mountains, partially visible to the south, which run parallel to and south of the central range of North Africa’s High Atlas mountains. • Here the landscape is mostly dry and barren, as these mountains lie within the Saharan climate zone. • This false-colour image has been processed using Sentinel-2’s near-infrared channel.

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  • A Sentinel‑2 satellite image taken in January 2026 shows south‑central Morocco’s Ouarzazate region, highlighting the dry Anti‑Atlas Mountains, seasonal rivers, and agricultural plots that brighten in near‑infrared color. The photo also captures the city’s urban core, the nearby El Mansour Eddahbi reservoir, and the expansive Noor solar power station. Noor, Morocco’s flagship concentrated solar plant, spans over 3,000 hectares and is the world’s largest of its kind, completed in four phases. The image underscores the area’s limited vegetation, seasonal water flow, and the growing importance of renewable energy infrastructure in the Sahara‑climate zone.

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