Kubuqi Desert, Ordos Basin, China
The horse outline in this image is made of solar panels, a design that reflects the region’s horse-racing and horse-breeding traditions. This Guinness Book of World Record holder for “largest image of solar panels” boasts 196,320 solar panels across 345 acres.
PS10 Solar Power Plant
The PS10 Solar Power Plant in Seville uses angled mirrors to heat molten salt towers, generating energy. The bright panels in the western farm can provide contextual clues regarding the panels’ orientation, as radar energy from the Capella satellite is reflected back from the surface. In contrast, shadowing on the eastern farm indicates the mirrors […]
Tiangang Fishery & Solar Photovoltaic System
This SAR image shows a solar farm floating on top of the human-made Lake Tiangang in China. The fishery-solar hybrid photovoltaic power station covers approximately half of the lake’s surface and contrasts from the lake’s surface depicted by dark areas in the SAR image. A zoomed in view shows the individual solar arrays on floating […]
