April 29th 2001
Early evening - you can see Iceland at the top of the picture (it looks a bit like a fluffy animal), and Gibraltar and the Med. virtually clear of cloud at the bottom. Devon and Cornwall are out of cloud, and it was a fine, sunny, but windy evening. There is an infra-red component to the picture - red is warm, and greens and blues are cold: black is hot, as in the north African deserts.
The picture below is more recent - it is a morning picture (about 9am BST) so the sun is shining quite low on the left of the picture. The British Isles are in the centre of the picture, and at the bottom you can see Spain and Portugal, North Africa, and Gibraltar. Sun glint, the reflection off the sea, shows Corsica and Sardinia almost as silouettes.:
15 Sept. 2001
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