Here's another chance to play geographical detective! These images
from the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) were captured
by the instrument's nadir camera on July 31, 2002, and show a
natural-color (top) and false-color (bottom) view of a 291 kilometer
x 158 kilometer area.
The false-color image includes data from the camera's near-infrared
band, and accentuates the appearance of vegetation. North is toward
the top.
Below are nine statements about the large, leaf-shaped island in the
lower left part of the image area. Only some of these statements are
true. Use any reference materials you like, and mark each statement
true or false:
1. The island is known by at least three different names.
2. At least one language spoken on the island is not in common usage
anywhere else.
3. The capital city of the province to which this island belongs is
located within 200 kilometers of the northern boundary of the image
area.
4. The island's shores are home to its country's most spectacular coral reefs.
5. Due to the extreme depth of the sea floor surrounding the island,
sea level fluctuations during the Quaternary Period have not changed
the horizontal location of its coastline by more than 500 meters.
6. There are no fruit bats on the island.
7. The region within which the island is situated harbors a
freshwater turtle that is exceptional in its possession of an
anatomical characteristic otherwise typical of marine turtles.
8. Insect control has been tested as a means of combatting an
invasive aquatic weed that threatens wetland habitats in the island's
vicinity.
9. Species of Avicennia are found in the island's coastal regions.
See quiz answers
MISR was built and is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Pasadena, CA, for NASA's Office of Earth Science, Washington, DC.
The Terra satellite is managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center,
Greenbelt, MD. JPL is a division of the California Institute of
Technology.
Image credit: NASA/GSFC/LaRC/JPL, MISR Team.
|
