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Greenhouses of Cayambe Valley

If you live in the United States, there is a good chance that the roses you exchanged on Valentine’s Day came from this greenhouse town high in the Andes Mountains.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and topographic data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). Story by Adam Voiland.

Published February 15, 2018
Data acquired September 20, 2017

Sources:
Landsat 8 > OLI
Space Shuttle > SRTM