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Why is the Amazon Forest Red?

The MESSENGER spacecraft gave us this near-infrared view of the Americas, where the dense vegetation of the Amazon and other forests appears dark red.


(NASA image based on data from the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) on Messenger. Yellowstone photograph courtesy National Park Service.) Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published March 7, 2014
Data acquired August 2, 2005

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MESSENGER