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Solar in the Sahara

In Morocco, an expansive solar power complex begins to take shape at the “door of the desert.”


NASA Earth Observatory images by Jesse Allen, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Kathryn Hansen.

Published January 10, 2016
Data acquired 2013 - 2015

Source:
Landsat 8 > OLI
Collection:
Renewable and Alternative Energy