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Spain’s Stained River

The unusually red and acidic Rio Tinto harbors microscopic life that could inform the search for life on Mars.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published October 30, 2020
Data acquired February 2, 2020

Source:
Landsat 8 > OLI