Between Earth and Space

Drones are an important tool in the geosciences because they allow safe access to dangerous terrain and fill an important resolution gap between field and satellite datasets. This drone is about to take-off from the Roque de los Muchachos observatory (La Palma, Canary Islands) and survey cliff faces above Caldera Taburiente.

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Europe (3779)
Southern Europe (1628)
Spain (783)
Exact location (-17.8963 W, 28.7463 N)

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5248 × 3394 px; image/jpeg; 9.1 MB
Camera: Nikon D5500
Software: Photoshop
Taken on 27 May 2017
Submitted on 14 February 2019

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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)

Credit

Sam Thiele (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

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