True-color image of the Dead Sea (the dark body of water) and salt evaporation ponds (the green/blue green rectangular features at the southern end of the sea). This image was acquired on December 21, 2022, by the Multi-Spectral Instrument (MSI) aboard the ESA (European Space Agency) Sentinel-2A and -2B satellites. Explore this image in Worldview. Learn more about the salt levels in the Dead Sea in the NASA Earth Observatory article, Getting Saltier.
The imagery available in NASA's Worldview are part of the Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 (HLS) project, which provides 30 meter resolution true-color surface reflectance imagery from the Operational Land Imager (OLI) and OLI-2 instruments aboard the joint NASA/USGS Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 satellites and the MSI aboard ESA's Sentinel-2A and -2B satellites. The data from the two instruments aboard the four satellites are processed through a set of algorithms to make the imagery consistent and comparable across the instruments. This includes atmospheric correction, cloud and cloud-shadow masking, spatial co-registration and common gridding, illumination and view angle normalization, and spectral bandpass adjustment.
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Dataset: doi:10.5067/HLS/HLSS30.002