Sierra Madre Oriental in Coahuila, Mexico

Credit: Credit: NASA/USGS, Posted on: Tuesday, 5 August 2003, 06:00 CDT Download full size image

This desolate landscape is part of the Sierra Madre Oriental mountain range, on the border between the Coahuila and Nuevo Leon provinces of Mexico.

This image was acquired by Landsat 7’s Enhanced Thematic Mapper plus (ETM+) sensor on November 28, 1999. This is a false-color composite image made using shortwave infrared, infrared, and green wavelengths. The image has also been sharpened using the sensor’s panchromatic band.

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