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Gaofen-1 satellite images
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Dried river valleys cut between mountains. The red and brown tones represent different types of vegetation.
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Mountains and a small body of water sit at the bottom of the desert depicted throughout the top of this image.
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There's a lot going on in this image of mountains near Changzhi. The pink on the left is farming. Snow is visible in the white region on the right. And vegetation, depicted in red, can be seen covering the mountains.
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Farms along the beach of an estuary.
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Sand on the edge of Qinghai Lake.
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A desert in western China. The blue and red patches are man-made reservoirs. The ear shape is a dried up lake that's been eroded by wind.
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More dry lakes. A road can be seen zagging from left to right across the image.
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An alluvial fan takes a jellyfish shape in the Gobi Desert.
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The crop fields at the top of this image haven't turned green yet (despite their false color). What's beneath them — a stretch of mountains that have been carved by water — are, however, covered in green.
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The ground on this plateau has been cut apart by erosion. One long stream uses that valley to cut across the land.
