It's the end of the world, again.
The Nile River appears to show up as a deep blood red, a long, crimson wound slicing its way through the desert toward the Mediterranean Sea.
Of course, the “blood” that appears to be flowing through the center of Egypt isn’t actually blood, nor is it actually the Nile, but rather the thin strip of vegetation that borders its banks and fans out with the river into the massive Nile delta.
The vegetation is visible as a red mass to the ESA’s Sentinel-3A satellite, which launched back in February with a suite of cutting-edge instruments designed to provide systematic measurements of Earth’s oceans, land, ice and atmosphere.
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