It may seem more like modern art , but you ’re actually looking at a the highlands of Ecuador find out from the European Space Agency ’s Envisat .
Near the top of the image you’re able to see the outskirts of Quito — one of the high capital cities in the world — as a serial of white dots . Elsewhere , what looks like bloodless glaciers at the prime of mountains are in fact artefacts of radiocommunication data . The peaks pretty much face the artificial satellite , so the radar sign it sends out are reflected in good order back , result in the strong , bright signals you see . [ ESA ]
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