Satellite image of crops growing in Kansas, USA. Healthy, growing crops are green. Corn would be growing into leafy stalks by late June (when this photo was taken). Sorghum, which resembles corn, grows more slowly and would be much smaller and therefore, possibly paler. Wheat is a brilliant gold as harvest occurs in June. Fields of brown have been recently harvested and plowed under or lie fallow for the year. The circular crop fields are a characteristic of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/w:center_point_irrigation" class="extiw" title="en:w:center point irrigation">w:center point irrigation</a>. The fields shown here are 800 and 1,600 meters (0.5 and 1 mile) in diameter. The image is centered near 37.4 degrees north latitude, 100.9 degrees west longitude, and covers an area of 37.2 x 38.8 km.
NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team
2001-06-24
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