EO’s Satellite Puzzler: Entry 1
May 29th, 2012 by Adam Voiland
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It looks like a mine, that it could be done in near the tropic area, perhaps in South America.
From the rolling terrain, high crop density, and the open pit (coal?) mining, I would say something mid-latitude and in the southern hemisphere. I’m guessing South Africa in austral summer (December). The Witbank coal field or something in the same region.
Possibly Manchuria. Very tightly packed, small agricultural plots with mining (largely coal)
immediatly alongside. In addition, there is a profound landform change immediately to the right (east?) that appears quite barren and eroded by wind.
I think the feature on the right hand side is remnant forest with a walkway connecting the white dots, a very small open cut coal operation not on flat land and it is pretty lush or verdant country where agriculture is intensive so I’m thinking Poland or Italy , Germany or France?
Gold mining on the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
The tan areas are, what are called locally, slime dams, which are formed from the waste of procsssing. Re-processing of these using better extraction methods has been going on for 25 years and are profatable with a high gold price.
This is the brown coal area located in Western Germany (Cologne/Aachen Area). In the center is a power plant transforming the brown coal to electricity.
Efes, Turkye?