URUGUAY....Sensor Terra/MODIS...Visualization Date 2002-12-24....Credit Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC.This true-color Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image from December 21, 2002, shows the onset of Southern Hemisphere summer across Argentina (left), Uruguay (center), and southern Brazil (upper right.) From the flat grasslands of Argentina, known as the Pampas, the terrain transitions to gently rolling hills in Uruguay. The terrain rises still more in southern Brazil. The Parana River makes a wide, dark green swath running through eastern Argentina before joining with the Uruguay River along the western border of Uruguay and emptying into the Rio de la Plata Estuary. At the mouth of the Rio de la Plata (south side) a gray patch indicates the location of Buenos Aires.
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