Keeping it Cool in the Outback

Residents of the Australian opal-mining town of Coober Pedy beat the heat by living underground.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Keeping it Cool in the Outback.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Wanmei Liang, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Lindsey Doermann.

Published November 20, 2023
Data acquired November 6, 2023