True-color image of lithium mining in Salar de Atacama, Chile. Salar de Atacama is the largest salt flat in Chile and the third largest salt flat in the world. Located in the Lithium Triangle, it is also the world's largest and purest active source of lithium. This image was acquired on January 8, 2023, by the Multi-Spectral Instrument (MSI) aboard the ESA (European Space Agency) Sentinel-2A and -2B satellites. Explore this image in Worldview.
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Dataset: doi:10.5067/HLS/HLSS30.002
Reference: Salar de Atacama. Wikipedia. Accessed January 10, 2023.