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Seismic Surveying Grid in Libya

Seismic surveying that was part of oil exploration left this distinctive grid on the Messak Settafet plateau.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Adam Voiland, with assistance from Marta Lahr (University of Cambridge) and David Mattingly (University of Leiceister). Congratulations to Stefano for being the first to answer the puzzler correctly.

Published June 27, 2015
Data acquired February 11, 2015

Source:
Landsat 8 > OLI