• Earth from Space: Sending love from above LOW-RES JPG [1.97 MB] HI-RES JPG [11.61 MB] HI-RES TIF [494.28 MB] Thank you for liking You have already liked this page, you can only like it once! • For Valentine’s Day, theCopernicus Sentinel-2 missionsends love from space, capturing the heart-shaped oasis of Faiyum, just south of Cairo, Egypt. • Zoom in or click on the circles to explore this image at its full resolution. • This false-colour image was processed using Sentinel-2’s near-infrared channel, which highlights vegetation in red, so that the Nile Delta and the Fayum Oasis appear in red - a red flower with a natural heart. • The red triangle of Egypt’s fertile Nile Delta stands in contrast to the surrounding desert of northeast Africa. • This difference is shaped by the Nile River, whose life-giving waters have long transformed the arid land into a lush agricultural landscape.
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- For Valentine’s Day the Copernicus Sentinel‑2 satellite produced a high‑resolution mosaic that highlights the heart‑shaped Faiyum Oasis south of Cairo. Using the near‑infrared channel, vegetation appears in red, turning the Nile Delta and the oasis into a natural “red flower.” The image, assembled from cloud‑free scans between July and December 2025, also shows Cairo, the Pyramids, and the Suez Canal. The mosaic demonstrates how the Nile’s waters sustain Egypt’s limited arable land-about 3 % of the country-by transforming arid regions into productive fields of cotton, rice, and sugar cane.
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