Sun Glint from Solar Electric Generating Stations

Depending upon the position of the Sun, the solar power stations in California’s Mohave Desert can reflect solar energy from their large, mirrors directly towards orbiting cameras.

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Image credit: NASA/GSFC/LaRC/JPL, MISR Team. Text acknowledgment: Clare Averill (Raytheon ITSS / Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Mike Garay (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) and Dominic Mazzoni (Jet Propulsion Laboratory).

Published May 27, 2004
Data acquired April 8, 2003

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